Answer (1 of 5): When the side of your head is blown off by a large calibre bullet, and your wife has climbed out on the trunk of the car to retrieve a bloody chunk of your skull, I think we can say that you are dead. Instantly. The fact that your heart might continue beating for X seconds or mi...

A: Jacqueline Kennedy climbed on the back of the car to retrieve fragments from the president's head, though she had no memory of it afterward. Q: Was Kennedy killed instantly?

John F. Kennedy's motorcade approximately one minute before he is fatally shot along Elm St. on Dealey Plaza. Uncredited/AP The president's limo turns onto Elm Street.

He was finally arrested in a cinema where he had ducked inside to avoid police. Oswald later told reporters he was a “patsy” and had not killed Kennedy, but two days after the assassination he himself was shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in Dallas police headquarters — so his side of the story was never heard.

John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in …

The scene is Parkland Memorial Hospital, where the dying Kennedy was rushed within minutes of the shooting.

John F. Kennedy was killed by the second of two rifle shots from the rear, the bullet entering the skull and explosively exiting the right side of the skull. This occurred at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas at approximately 12:30 PM CST November 22, 1963. The President instantly lost his brain function above the brain stem.

Tasked with protecting First Lady Jackie Kennedy, Secret Service agent Clint Hill was the man standing between her and gunfire the day her husband was killed.

July 23, 1999 4:00am. Autopsies revealed that John Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law died instantly when their plane plunged into the water off Martha’s Vineyard – …

The president was pronounced dead 12 minutes after being wheeled into Trauma Room 1, he said. As Jones left the trauma room, he was immediately confronted by …