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| 1865 | Booth, John Wilkes |  |
| 14th April Washington Assassinates President Lincoln by shooting him in the back at Ford's Theatre
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| 1865 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| 15th April Washington John Wilkes Booth, a fanatical Confederate assassinates Lincoln
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| 1881 | Garfield, James Abram | |
| 2nd July Potomac Charles Guiteau, failed applicant for an appointment as minister to Austria & consul-general to Paris, shoots Garfield in a railroad station, he dies 19th Sept
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| 2nd July Potomac Garfield's assassination is instrumental to the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act on January 16, 1883
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| 2nd July Potomac Guiteau says, "I am a Stalwart of the Stalwarts! I did it and I want to be arrested! Arthur is President now,"
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| 2nd July Potomac One bullet grazes his arm, a 2nd bullet lodged in his back & could not be found despite Alexander Graham Bell devising a metal detector
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| 1881 | Guiteau, Charles | |
| Guiteau is found guilty of assassinating Garfield, despite his lawyers raising an insanity defense
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| Guiteau is found guilty of assassinating Garfield, despite his lawyers raising an insanity defense, & sentenced to death
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| 2nd July Potomac Charles Guiteau, failed applicant for an appointment as minister to Austria & consul-general to Paris, shoots Garfield in a railroad station, he dies 19th Sept
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| 19th Aug President Garfield dies from gunshot wounds fired by Charles Guiteau
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| 1882 | Guiteau, Charles | |
| Guiteau is executed for the assassination of President Garfield
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| 1901 | McKinley, William | |
| 6th Sep Buffalo Assassinated in Buffalo, New York
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| 1939 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| 18th Oct Slidell Birth of Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Edward Lee Oswald dies before his son is born
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| 1959 | Fain, John | |
| An FBI agent who opens a case file on Oswald after his defection to the Soviet Union
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| 1961 | Walker, Edwin | |
| Sep Mississippi Organizes the protests against the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi
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| 1962 | Carter, Tom | |
| 26th June Fort Worth FBI Agents Fain & Carter interview Oswald about his activities in Russia
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| 1962 | Fain, John | |
| 26th June Fort Worth FBI Agents Fain & Carter interview Oswald about his activities in Russia
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| 1963 | Alyea, Tom | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas WFAA-TV cameraman Tom Alyea is on the 6th floor of the Depository photographing the recovery Oswald's rifle
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| 1963 | Baker, Marrion | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Stops Oswald in the 2nd floor lunch room 1 min 30 secs after the shooting
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| 1963 | Barret, Bob | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Arrests Lee Harvey Oswald at Oak Cliff Theater
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| 1963 | Bentley, Paul | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas 1 of the officers assisting in Oswald's arrest in the Texas Theatre on West Jefferson
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| 1963 | Brennan, Howard | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Claims the 1st shot was when Kennedy's car turned from Houston onto Elm
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| 23rd Nov Dallas Police radio a description of Oswald based on Brennan's description
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| 1963 | Burkley, George Gregory | |
| 21st Nov Dallas Dr. Burkley observes both the head wound and a wound to the back of the President, and determines the head wound was the cause of death
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| 21st Nov Dallas Dr. Burkley signs President Kennedy's death certificate
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| 21st Nov Dallas Dr. George Gregory Burkley, the President's personal physician arrived at the Parkland emergency room where the President was located, five minutes after the President arrived
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| 1963 | Carlin, Karen | |
| 24th Nov Dallas Carlin phones Ruby for him to wire her $25, had she not phoned, Ruby would not have been in downtown Dallas
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| 1963 | Coleman, Walter | |
| 12th April Dallas Claims to have seen 2 cars & 2 men involved in the shooting of Major-General Walker
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| 1963 | Connally, John | |
| 21st Nov Dallas Texas Governor John Connally says "My God, they are going to kill us all"
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| 21st Nov Dallas Texas Governor John Connally, sitting with his wife in front of the Kennedys in the limousine, also reacted to being shot by a bullet that penetrated his back, chest and right wrist, yelling, "Oh, no, no, no"
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| 1963 | Craig, Roger | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Sees Oswald run from the School Book Depository & get in a Rambler on Elm Street, supposedly belonging to Mrs Paine
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| 1963 | DeBruey, Warren | |
| Sep New Orleans Concludes for the FBI that Oswald is sole member of the FPC Committee in New Orleans
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| Sep New Orleans Discovers Oswald has been using an alias, AJ Hidell
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| 1963 | Frazier, Buell | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Claims the 1st shot was when Kennedy's car turned from Houston onto Elm
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| 1963 | Fritz, Will | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Interrogates Oswald, 2pm
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| 1963 | Greer, William | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Driver of Kennedy's limousine
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| 1963 | Hill, Clint | |
| 21st Nov Dallas Pushes Mrs. Kennedy back into her seat, and clings to the car as it exits Dealey Plaza and sped to Parkland Memorial Hospital
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| 21st Nov Dallas Secret Service agent Clint Hill rides on the left front running board of the car behind the Presidential limousine, after the shot that hit the President in the back, Hill jumped off and to overtake the limousine
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| 1963 | Hill, Jean | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas The "Lady in Red" in Zapruder's film, claims smoke was lingering near the grassy knoll picket fence corner
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| 1963 | Hine, Geneva | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Claims the 1st shot was when Kennedy's car turned from Houston onto Elm
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| 1963 | Hosty, James | |
| 18th Oct Mexico City Has a CIA report saying Oswald visited Kostikov, the Soviet Embassy Vice Consul
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| 1st Nov Dallas Visits Ruth Paine & learns Oswald's address & job at the Texas School Book Depository
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| 3rd Nov Dallas Requests the FBI Oswald file from New Orleans, established Oswald is living in Dallas
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| 22nd Nov Dallas Receives the New Orleans FBI files & papers on Oswald
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| 1963 | Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| 21st Nov Dallas Johnson takes the oath of office on board Air Force One just before it departed Love Field
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| 21st Nov Dallas Vice-President Johnson (who had been riding two cars behind Kennedy in the motorcade through Dallas, and was not injured) become President of the USA.index.html title="History of USA">United States upon Kennedy's death. At 2:38 P.M
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| 29th Nov The first official investigation of the Kennedy assassination is established by President Johnson, a week after the assassination
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| 1963 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Arlington Representatives from over 90 countries, including the Soviet Union, attend the funeral, after the service, the casket is taken by caisson to Arlington National Cemetery for burial
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| 1st Nov Washington Kennedy approves a coup by Sth Vietnamese Army officers & Diem is assassinated
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| 19th Nov Dallas The motorcade route is described in both Dallas newspapers
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| 19th Nov Dallas The motorcade route is published is published in both Dallas newspapers
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| 21st Nov Parkland Hospital A few minutes after 2:00 p.m. CST (20:00 UTC), and after a confrontation between Dallas police and Secret Service agents, Kennedy's body is placed in a casket and taken from Parkland Hospital and driven to Air Force One
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| 21st Nov Dallas At 1:00 p.m., CST (19:00 UTC), after all heart activity had ceased and after a priest administered the last rites, the President is pronounced dead
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| 21st Nov Parkland Hospital The body is removed before a forensic examination can be conducted by the Dallas County coroner, which violated Texas state law (the murder was a state crime, and occurred under Texas legal jurisdiction)
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| 22nd Nov Bethesda Naval Hospital After Air Force One lands at Andrews Air Force Base, just outside Washington, D.C., Kennedy's body is taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital for an immediate autopsy
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| 22nd Nov Dallas Assassinated while on a Presidential campaign
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| 22nd Nov Dallas The Warren Commission later concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald is the lone assassin
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| 1963 | Kilduff, Malcolm | |
| 21st Nov Kennedy's death is officially announced by White House Acting Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff at 1:33 p.m. CST (19:33 UTC)
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| 1963 | Knack, Milton | |
| O3 New Orleans Conducts FBI investigation into Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba activities
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| 1963 | Landis, Paul | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas From the 5th floor hears Oswald operate his bolt action twice
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| 1963 | Lodge, Henry Cabot | |
| Urges Kennedy to support the coup against Diem which results in Diem's assassination
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| 1963 | MacNeil, Robert | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Directs Oswald to a phone, 3 mins after the shooting
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| 1963 | Markham, Helen | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Witness to the assassination of Officer Tippit
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| 1963 | Mohrenschildt, George de | |
| April Inscribed with "Hunter of fascists", discoverred at the end of the Warren Commission
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| 1963 | Moorman, Mary Ann | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Photograph's the Grassy Knoll with a polaroid which is used to identify the "badge man"
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| 22nd Nov Dallas Stands just behind & to the left of President Kennedy with her friend, Jean Hill, seen in Zapruder's film
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| 1963 | Norman, Harold | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas From the 5th floor hears Oswald operate his bolt action twice
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| 1963 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| Mar Oswald used his alias "A. Hidell" (which he would later use for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and for which he was carrying an I.D. card when arrested after the Kennedy murder) to purchase the Kennedy assassination rifle
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| 31st Mar The "backyard photos," taken by Marina Oswald, show Oswald dressed all in black and holding two Marxist newsletters - The Militant and The Worker - in one hand, a rifle in the other
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| 12th April Dallas 11:30 PM returns home admiting to Marina that he had just shot Major-General Walker
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| 12th April Dallas An attempt is made on the life of Major-General Edwin Walker by Oswald
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| 12th April Dallas Marina Oswald later testifies her husband stayed out late this night
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| 23rd Nov Dallas Escapes through the Elm St entrance, 3 minutes after the shooting
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| 24th Nov Dallas At 11:21 am CST Sunday, November 24, while handcuffed to Detective Leavelle and about to be taken to the Dallas County Jail, Oswald is shot and fatally wounded before live TV cameras in the basement of Dallas police station
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| 24th Nov Dallas Oswald is put into an ambulance and rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where JFK had died two days earlier
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| 1963 | Oswald, Marina | |
| 10th April Dallas Marina Oswald later claims that Oswald attempted to assassinate General Edwin Walker
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| 1963 | Paine, Michael | |
| Dallas Separated husband of Ruth Paine who rents a room Marina Oswald
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| 1963 | Paine, Ruth | |
| Dallas Rents out a room to Marina Oswald
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| 1963 | Reid, Robert | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Sees Oswald on 2nd floor 2 mins after the shooting
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| 1963 | Rose, Gus | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Helps interrogates Oswald, 2pm
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| 1963 | Rowland, Barbara | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Claims the 1st shot was when Kennedy's car turned from Houston onto Elm
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| 1963 | Ruby, Jack | |
| 24th Nov Dallas Assassinates Lee Harvey Oswald
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| 24th Nov Dallas Carlin phones Ruby for him to wire her $25, had she not phoned, Ruby would not have been in downtown Dallas
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| 1963 | Scoggins, Willie | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Identifies Oswald at the lineup for killing Officer Tippit
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| 23rd Nov Dallas Witness to the assassination of Officer Tippit
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| 1963 | Sitzman, Marilyn | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Stands on the same pedestal as Abraham Zapruder (steadying him), only yards from the alleged Grassy Knoll assassin
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| 1963 | Skelton, Royce | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Claims the 1st shot was when Kennedy's car turned from Houston onto Elm
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| 1963 | Specter, Arlen | |
| The Magic Bullet theory is contributed to the Warren Commission by Arlen Specter posits that a single bullet, "Warren Commission Exhibit 399", caused all of the non-fatal wounds in both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally
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| 1963 | Tague, James | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas A bullet fragment hits Tague
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| 1963 | Walker, Edwin | |
| Mar Mississippi Investigated by the FBI for inciting a race riot
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| April Dallas An attempt is made on the life of Major-General Edwin Walker by Oswald
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| 10th April Dallas Victim of an assassination attempt in his Dallas home, later claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin
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| 1963 | Weitzman, Seymour | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Officer who first sees Oswald's rifle behind some boxes on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository
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| 1963 | Witt, Louis | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Attempts to heckle Kennedy with a reminder of the appeasement policies Prime Minister Chamberlain, with an umbrella
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| 22nd Nov Dallas The so called "Umbrella Man", standing in Dealey Plaza with an open umbrella and no rain in sight
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| 1963 | Zapruder, Abraham | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Films the assassination of Kennedy, sells the original film and the publishing rights to Life Magazine for $150,000, he donates $25,000 of the proceeds to the widow of slain Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit
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| 1964 | Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| Just before the 1964 presidential election, President Johnson orders the Warren Commission documentation to be sealed against public availability for 75 years (until 2039)
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| 1964 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| 12th April Dallas The Warren Commission concludes that lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Kennedy
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| Sep The Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in the murder of Oswald
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| 1964 | Ruby, Jack | |
| Sep The Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in the murder of Oswald
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| 1964 | Warren, Earl | |
| Sep In late September 1964, after a 10 month investigation, the Warren Commission Report is published
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| Sep The Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in the murder of Oswald
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| 1965 | Hayer, Talmadge | |
| 21st Feb New York Assassinates Malcolm X
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| 1965 | X, Malcolm | |
| 21st Feb New York Assassinated addressing a rally at the Audobon Ballroom, Harlem, on the first day of National Brotherhood Week
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| 1968 | Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| 3rd April Memphis Five days later, President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning for the lost civil rights leader
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| 1968 | Kennedy, Robert Francis | |
| 5th June Los Angeles Assassinated in a hotel after leaving a primary victory celebration
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| 1968 | King, Martin Luther | |
| Mar Memphis King goes to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the black sanitary public works employees, represented by AFSCME Local 1733, who had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages and better treatment
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| 3rd April Memphis Five days later, President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning for the lost civil rights leader
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| 3rd April Memphis King is booked in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, owned by Walter Bailey, in Memphis, while standing on the motel's 2nd floor balcony, King is shot at 6:01 p.m.
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| 3rd April Memphis King is pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 p.m.
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| 3rd April Memphis King returns to Memphis and addresses a rally, delivering his "I've been to the Mountaintop" address at Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ, Inc. - World Headquarters), King's flight to Memphis had been delayed by a bomb threat against his plane
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| 3rd April Memphis The assassination led to a nationwide wave of riots in more than 60 cities
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| 4th April Memphis Shot dead while stepping out onto a motel room balcony in Memphis
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| 1968 | Ray, James Earl | |
| 8th June London Arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King by Scotland Yard at London airport
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| 8th June London Two months after King's death, escaped convict James Earl Ray is captured at London Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the United Kingdom on a false Canadian passport in the name of Ramon George Sneyd
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| 1969 | Ray, James Earl | |
| Mar London On the advice of his attorney Percy Foreman, Ray makes guilty plea to avoid a trial conviction and thus the possibility of receiving the death penalty, Ray is sentenced to a 99-year prison term
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| 10th Mar London Ray is extradited to Tennessee and charged with King's murder, confessing to the assassination, though he recants this confession three days later
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| 1979 | Haig, Alexander Megis | |
| 25th June Escapes an assassination attempt by the reconstituted Baader-Meinhof Group
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| 25th June Survives an attempt on his life near the NATO HQ in Belgium
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| 1992 | Carlin, Karen | |
| Oct Carlin informs Gary Shaw that there was a conspiracy to kill Oswald & Ruby asked her to phone him to give him an alibi
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| Oct Carlin mentions 2 names to Gary Shaw, Carlos Marcello and Santos Trafficante, Jr. in the plot to kill Oswald
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| 1992 | Hill, Jean | |
| Dallas Hill co-writes a book entitled "The Last Dissenting Witness"
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| 1992 | Shaw, Gary | |
| Oct Carlin informs Gary Shaw that there was a conspiracy to kill Oswald & Ruby asked her to phone him to give him an alibi
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| 1993 | Walker, Edwin | |
| 31st Oct Dallas Death of Edwin Walker
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