a jury took minutes to acquit a man named Clay Shaw of plotting to assassinate Kennedy. Oliver Stone's film "JFK" reimagined the two-day trial, called a. President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy are seen in their motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963, shortly before his assassination. Texas Governor John Connally sits in front. The assassination of John F. Kennedy. In the afternoon, one of the most tragic events of the 20th century occurred in Dallas, Texas: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, JFK, Jerry's latest books are Duped Delusion, Denial and the End of the American Dream 2012. The Exile of Psyche: An Empirical Odyssey in Search of the Soul 2011 and Conspiracy in Camelot: The Complete Story of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassination 2003. His website is at collectivepsych.com