On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and first lady
Jacqueline Kennedy flew from Fort Worth, where they had
appeared at a chamber breakfast, to Dallas Love Field, where
they got into a motorcade for a parade through downtown.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States,
was assassinated in 1963 while traveling through Dallas, Texas,
in an open-top convertible.

First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband
on political outings, but she was beside him, along with Texas
Governor John Connally and his wife, for a 10-mile motorcade
through the streets of downtown Dallas on November 22.

As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository
Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three
shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy
and seriously injuring Governor Connally.

President John F. Kennedy’s limousine parked at the
emergency room entrance of Parkland Hospital, Dallas,
following the assassination.

News bulletins anchored by Walter Cronkite were aired
between commercial breaks during the broadcast of
soap opera As the World Turns.

Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963)

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968)

Robert Kennedy, brother of John F. Kennedy, served as the 64th
United States attorney general from January 1961 to September
1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965
until his assassination, when he was running for the Democratic 
presidential nomination.

The three brothers, Robert, Edward & John Kennedy.

On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led
hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their
agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American
nation of Guyana.

Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch
while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll
at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.

Jim Jones (below) was a charismatic churchman who established
the Peoples Temple, a Christian sect, in Indianapolis in the 1950s.         
        
        
        
        
        
        
       

Fitz Duke, who lives in nearby Port
Kaituma village, stands in front of
a nondescript memorial stone, the
only sign of the grisly Jonestown
massacre.

    
 William Franklin Holden (Beedle Jr.)  
(April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981)

William Holden was one of the biggest box-office draws of the
1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film
Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the
television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973).

Holden starred in some of Hollywood’s most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina
(1954), Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The
Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976).

His death certificate makes no mention of cancer

On the tragic evening of November 13, 1974, a young man
shot and kills his entire family with a 35-caliber Marlin rifle
as his parents, two brothers and two sisters apparently
sleep.

The gruesome murder of the DeFeo family shook up the
sleepy Long Island town of Amityville—and lead to decades
of horror storytelling.

The trial of Ronald DeFoe Jr. started on October 14, 1975.The
psychiatrist for the prosecution, Dr. Harold Zolan, maintained
that although DeFeo was an abuser of LSD and heroin, who
also had an antisocial personality disorder, he was aware of
his actions at the time of the crime.

On November 21, 1975, DeFoe was found guilty of six counts
of second-degree murder. The judge sentenced DeFoe to six
concurrent life sentences of 25 years to life.

DeFeo Jr.(right) with his four younger siblings.

Ronald DeFeo Jr. was just 23 years old when he killed
his family.

The grave of the DeFeo family at Saint Charles Cemetery.

The first edition of the book in 1977.

The ‘eye windows’ on the top floor have long been removed
and replaced with square ones.