Q 01/05

Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live television in the basement of Dallas police headquarters?

A) Sirhan Sirhan

B) Clay Shaw

C) Jack Ruby

D) James Earl Ray

Answer · why

C) Jack Ruby

Jack Ruby was sentenced to death for the killing, but the conviction was overturned on appeal and he died of illness in 1967 before a new trial could ...

Q 02/05

From which Dallas building, his own workplace, did investigators conclude Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy?

A) Texas School Book Depository

B) Dal-Tex Building

C) Dallas County Records Building

D) Old Red Courthouse

Answer · why

A) Texas School Book Depository

The Texas School Book Depository now houses The Sixth Floor Museum, named for the corner window from which investigators concluded the shots came.

Q 03/05

Where did Lyndon B. Johnson take the presidential oath about two hours after Kennedy was shot?

A) In the Oval Office

B) Aboard Air Force One

C) At a Dallas police station

D) At Dallas County Courthouse

Answer · why

B) Aboard Air Force One

Aboard Air Force One, 27 people squeezed into a stateroom at Love Field to watch. It is the only time a US president has taken the oath on an airplane...

Q 04/05

Aldous Huxley and which other British author died on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated?

A) Ian Fleming

B) T. S. Eliot

C) Evelyn Waugh

D) C. S. Lewis

Answer · why

D) C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis collapsed at home about an hour before the shots in Dallas, so news of the Narnia author's death was largely overshadowed.

Q 05/05

A week after the assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy compared her husband's presidency to which musical?

A) Camelot

B) Brigadoon

C) My Fair Lady

D) The King and I

Answer · why

A) Camelot

Camelot was the Lerner and Loewe show whose cast album the president liked to play before bed, she told an interviewer. The name has stuck to the Kenn...