The Life of John F. Kennedy

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…showed last 75 words of 507 total…There, while in a motorcade going through the streets of Dallas, he was shot by an assumed gunman by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald. After his death in Dallas, Johnson was sworn in as President of the United States, on the plane back to Washington. Kennedy's funeral was held on November 25, 1963 where he was then buried in Arlington National Cemetery. An eternal flame was lit over his grave, where it is still burning today.