John F. Kennedy Trivia

1. What CBS television soap opera was interrupted when the first reports of shots came out of Dallas Texas?

From Quiz November 22, 1963

Answer: As the World Turns

The first reports only said that shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade, and the network immediately returned to the popular soap.

From Quiz Lee Harvey Oswald

Answer: New Orleans

Oswald was born on October 18, 1939 at the old French Hospital in New Orleans. His father died two months before his birth, leaving his mother Marguerite to bring him and his two elder siblings up alone. This she found she couldn't manage, her sister Lillian taking care of the boy until he was three years old and able to join his brothers who had been sent to a local Lutheran orphanage.

From Quiz All About John F. Kennedy

Answer: J.D. Tippit

After Oswald shot the president he then ran and murdered Officer J.D. Tippit. On November 24th, 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald was assassinated by Jack Ruby.

From Quiz JFK Assassination: Separating Myth from Fact

Answer: Ft. Worth

Kennedy had breakfast at a Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce function at The Hotel Texas. Afterward, he and his wife, Jacqueline, boarded Airforce One, which took them to Dallas Source: "Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy" (1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103801/

From Quiz The Assassination of JFK

Answer: Love Field

At the time, Love Field was the primary airport for the DFW area. It has since been superseded by Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Tarrant County. Love Field was also the title of the 1992 film starring Michelle Pfieffer and Michael Haysbert.

From Quiz John F. Kennedy - The Journey to Texas

Answer: Brookline, MA

He was born to Rose and Joseph Kennedy on May 29th 1917. He was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent. The Kennedy family were very wealthy and had many other homes, including the large summer house in Cape Cod. He actually lived at 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Ma.

From Quiz JFK: The Suspects

Answer: Judyth Baker

Oswald is a shadowy figure; it's hard to separate reality from mere appearance. Many writers have claimed that Oswald "impersonators" were involved in laying false trails to set him up as the fall guy that he claimed to be. Someone seems to have been using him as a pawn...but who? (And, of course, once captured, he would need to be "taken out". Enter Jack Ruby. Coinicidence? Unlikely.) Baker has recently written a book and been interviewed on tv, claiming that she was involved with Oswald at the time of the shooting of JFK. She claimed that he was reluctantly caught up in the conspiracy, but was not a participant in the shooting. Helen Markham was a (shaky) witness to the shooting of police officer J.D. Tippitt; she was walking when she stumbled on the scene. No one is quite certain how the shooting of Tippitt fits into the bigger picture. Ruth Paine was "landlady" to Oswald's wife, Marina, at the time of the shooting. (Marina and Lee were living apart.) Madeline Brown says that she was LBJ's mistress at the time of the shooting - and says that LBJ had advance knowledge of what was going to happen.

From Quiz The Life and Death of a President

Answer: 1917

His father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, was an industrialist and diplomat. He was ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. A self made millionaire, he groomed all his four sons for careers in politics.

From Quiz JFK Assassinated!

Answer: 6.5-millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano rifle

The Warren Commission described the weapon as: "[a] bolt-action, clip-fed rifle found on the sixth floor of the Depository... [it] is inscribed with various markings, including "MADE ITALY," "CAL. 6.5," "1940" and the number C2766...identified by the FBI as a 6.5-millimeter model 91/38 Mannlicher-Carcano rifle." (SOURCE: "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy," September 24, 1964; commonly known as the "Warren Commission Report.")

From Quiz Mysterious Deaths of JFK Assassination "Witnesses"

Answer: Injection of cancer cells

Ruby believed that he was being injected with cancer cells. He died (of cancer) shortly after being hospitalized (for an unrelated condition). Interesting ... but it is certainly possible that Ruby wasn't playing with a full deck.

From Quiz Lee Harvey Oswald: Patsy Or Lone Assassin?

Answer: New Orleans Office

Five days before the murder of John F. Kennedy, the New Orleans FBI Office received a message, via telex, that the President would be killed in Dallas at the end of the week. This warning was sent to all the FBI offices in the United States, but the Secret Service did not receive any warning. Amazingly, after the murder, the original telex message was removed from the file drawers, and more amazingly, in every FBI office in the country every copy of the warning was destroyed. One wonders who could have sent the warning.

From Quiz JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theory #1

Answer: Frames 313-316 of the Zapruder film

Frames 313-316 of the Zapruder film record the headsnap, back and to the left, which is counter-intuitive if the fatal headshot shot had been fired from the rear. Dan Rather, who saw an early copy of the film, incorrectly reported that the headsnap was to the front. It was not until 1975 that the film was seen publicly, and that alone was a major reason for the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations. There were not supposed to be any Secret Service personnel on the ground in Dealey Plaza that day, but two Dallas policemen and one civilian reported seeing Secret Service I.D. presented to them by a man behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll. To this day, no one knows who he was. Whereas the war *DID* escalate under Johnson, this is not an immediate or obvious reason to suspect the assassination had anything to do with it. Finally, whereas Oswald was a poor shot using a poor rifle, it's not until you get into the case that this becomes a reason to doubt the lone-gunman theory.

From Quiz JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theory #2

Answer: Jackie Kennedy

The famous Zapruder home movie of the assassination shows Jackie Kennedy climbing out on to the trunk of the limousine in the seconds following the fatal head shot. At first it appears that Agent Hill, who has run from the Secret Service follow-up car, is pushing her back in - but in reality she is fetching a piece of skull and returns to the back seat on her own.

From Quiz JFK Assassination History

Answer: Ruth Paine

Janet Williams was the pseudonym that Oliver Stone's film 'JFK' used for Ruth Paine. Marina lived with Ruth in Irving, Texas. Marguerite was LHO's mother.

From Quiz JFK Assassination

Answer: Dallas

JFK was in Texas to try and shore up party support for his upcoming presidential campaign.

From Quiz JFK and Dallas

Answer: John Connally

Texas Governor Connally was also wounded in the shooting, presumably by the so-called 'magic bullet' that first struck the President.

From Quiz The Assassination of JFK

Answer: 4

There were 4 Kennedy brothers - Joe Jr., John F., Robert(Bobby) and Edward(Teddy). Joe Jr died in a plane crash, John and Bobby were both assassinated, Teddy died of brain cancer.

From Quiz November 22, 1963

Answer: Sixth

Accused shooter Lee Harvey Oswald was an employee of the Texas School Book Depository. Many witnesses claimed the shots came from the sixth floor while others thought they came from a grassy knoll near Dealey Plaza.

From Quiz Lee Harvey Oswald

Answer: Marine Corps

In October 1956 Oswald finally joined the marines, after attempting to fraudulently enter the previous year when he unsuccessfully altered his age on his birth certificate. Oswald's initial marine preparation was as a radar operator, then a marksman, an activity he wasn't particularly good at. In September 1957 he was sent to Japan as part of a Marine Air Control Squadron.

From Quiz All About John F. Kennedy

Answer: 6.5 Italian Mannlicher Carcano

The gun at first was believed to be a 7.65 Mauser but then investigators defined it as a 6.5 Italian Mannlicher Carcano.

From Quiz JFK Assassination: Separating Myth from Fact

Answer: To a luncheon at the Dallas Trademart

At first, Kennedy was skeptical about going to Dallas because of the fan reception he would receive from the Republican state. But once he arrived, he was greeted with compassion. Nellie Connally was even impressed, saying to the President, "You can't say Dallas doesn't love you." Source: Source: "Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy" (1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103801/

From Quiz The Assassination of JFK

Answer: Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Fort Worth

While Kennedy was inside speaking at the breakfast, throngs of enthusiastic Texans gathered outside in the parking lot. Among them was a young girl who grew up to be one of my co-teachers. She was able to shake JFK's hand when he came out to greet the masses. Talk about being touched by history!

From Quiz John F. Kennedy - The Journey to Texas

Answer: Fitzgerald

His full name is John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was actually named in honour of his grandpa, John Francis Fitzgerald (a.k.a Honey Fitz). Honey Fitz was already well known in politics and could have influenced young John into this line of work.

From Quiz JFK: The Suspects

Answer: Diem

"Triangle of Blood" by Brad O'Leary (and a co-author) suggests that the involvement of the Kennedy administration in the assassination of Vietnamese leader Diem led to retaliation that resulted in JFK's death. Thieu and Ky were leaders of Vietnam during the Vietnamese war. Ho Chi Minh was also prominent at that time.

From Quiz The Life and Death of a President

Answer: Harvard

He graduated with a science degree.

From Quiz JFK Assassinated!

Answer: Elm Street

The Presidential limousine had just turned left from Houston Street to Elm street, and was traveling at about 11 miles per hour on Elm when the bullets struck the President.

From Quiz Mysterious Deaths of JFK Assassination "Witnesses"

Answer: Jack Ruby

Kilgallen interviewed Ruby - and later stated that she had a great story that would break the Kennedy assassination wide open. She apparently died in bed. There were, however, certain seeming irregularities that have led people to wonder.

From Quiz JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theory #1

Answer: The package identified was too short and it bore no gun-oil stains

Both Buell Wesley Frazier and his sister testified that the package Oswald carried to work that Friday was no more than 24 inches long. A disassembled Mannlicher-Carcano is 37 inches long. Also, if disassembled and in working order, it would have been well-oiled making it hard to believe the bag found carried a rifle in it.

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