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)

French physician Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier and
François Laurent, the marquis d’ Arlandes, made the
first untethered hot-air balloon flight, flying 5.5 miles
over Paris in about 25 minutes.

Their cloth balloon was crafted by French paper-making
brothers Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventors of the world’s first successful hot-air balloons.

  The Montgolfier brothers.

On this day in1877, the publication Scientific American
enthuses about Thomas Edison‘s new invention: the
phonograph, a way to record and play back sound.

Calling it a "wonderful invention," the article describes
the machine’s capability: "…whoever has spoken or
whoever may speak into the mouthpiece of the phonograph,
and whose words are recorded by it, has the assurance that
his speech may be reproduced audibly in his own tones long
after he himself has turned to dust.

On November 21, 1980, 350 million people around the world tuned
in to television’s popular primetime drama “Dallas” to find out
who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate. J.R. had
been shot on the season-ending episode the previous March 21,
which now stands as one of television’s most famous cliffhangers.

The November 21 episode solved the mystery, identifying Kristin Shepard, J.R.’s wife’s sister-in-law and his former mistress, as
the culprit.

The CBS television network debuted the first five-episode pilot
season of “Dallas” in 1978; it went on to run for another 12 full-
length seasons.

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.