sk any American who was alive on November 22, 1963, what they remember of the day President Kennedy was shot and they’ll have a story to tell. It was an event that shattered America’s spirit and reverberates to the present day. On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy became the youngest man and first Catholic to be inaugurated as president of the United States. After only a thousand days in office, President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald. In the months after his death, investigations into the assassination yielded inadequate and conflicting results. Rumors and theories of conspiracy still surround Kennedy’s murder to this day, but it was his life and the tragedy of his death that makes this a memorable event in U.S. history.