Times on the day come from the reconstruction and the surveyed frames where they can, and from testimony where they cannot. Everything here is set out at length in the chapter it links to, with its sources.
Friday 22 November 1963
- 11:37 Air Force One lands at Love Field The trip is political housekeeping: a feud in the Texas Democratic party, and the start of next year's campaign. Chapter 2
- 11:50 The motorcade leaves for the Trade Mart Roughly ten miles through Dallas, scheduled to arrive at half past twelve. Chapter 2
- 12:15 The crowd on Elm Street is thin A few hundred people on the grass and the kerbs. The plaza is small: two minutes to walk across. Chapter 13
- 12:29 The turn onto Houston Motorcycles first, then the lead car, then the limousine. Chapter 6
- 12:30:00 The hairpin onto Elm A turn of about 120 degrees, tighter than anything else on the route. The car slows almost to a stop. Chapter 6
- 12:30:01 Frame 133. Zapruder starts filming again He had stopped to save film. The restart is why the frame numbering begins where it does. Chapter 6
- 12:30:03 The Stemmons sign From Zapruder's vantage the car is hidden completely for about fifteen frames. Chapter 6
- 12:30:04 Frame 313 The fatal shot. Mary Moorman's Polaroid is exposed within about a twentieth of a second of frame 315, from the far side of the street. Chapter 6
- 12:30:05 Clint Hill reaches the car About twenty-five feet, to a vehicle already accelerating away. Chapter 6
- 12:31 One man runs the other way A motorcycle officer sees pigeons come off the Depository roof and rides for the building. Chapter 13
- 12:32 The lunchroom Within about ninety seconds of the shots a Dallas officer has a rifle on Oswald on the second floor. Roy Truly identifies him as an employee. Chapter 13
- 12:34 Parkland Four miles in about four minutes with an escort clearing the junctions. Chapter 9
- 12:40 Nobody has been arrested Police are behind the fence and in the railroad yard. The warehouse has not been searched. Chapter 13
- 13:15 Officer Tippit is shot in Oak Cliff A second killing, with its own witnesses and its own evidence. Chapter 9
- 13:50 Oswald is arrested in the Texas Theatre About eighty minutes after the shooting. Chapter 9
- 14:38 Johnson is sworn in aboard Air Force One Sarah Hughes administers the oath. Cecil Stoughton makes the only photograph. Chapter 9
- 20:00 The autopsy begins at Bethesda Conducted by pathologists without training in forensic gunshot examination. Chapter 12
Afterwards
- 24 November 1963 Ruby shoots Oswald In the basement of police headquarters, on live television. No trial will ever be held. Chapter 10
- 29 November 1963 The Warren Commission is created Within a week, over objections from those who wanted a Texas inquiry. Chapter 16
- September 1964 The Report, and then the evidence 888 pages, followed by twenty-six volumes of testimony and exhibits. No comparable inquiry has published on that scale. Chapter 16
- 1967-1969 The only prosecution Jim Garrison tries Clay Shaw in New Orleans. The jury acquits in under an hour. Chapter 14
- March 1975 The film goes out on television The Zapruder film is broadcast nationally for the first time. Chapter 15
- 1976-1979 The House Select Committee Concludes a conspiracy is probable, on acoustic evidence a National Academy panel later undoes. Chapter 16
- 1979 The acoustics are undone A drummer finds police crosstalk underneath the impulses, timing the recording to about a minute after the shots. Chapter 16
- 1992 The JFK Records Act Passed after a Hollywood film. It reverses the default: agencies must justify each withholding. Chapter 16
- 1994-1998 The Review Board Five members with subpoena power release roughly four million pages and name which agencies cooperated. Chapter 16
- March 2025 The release Tens of thousands of pages, including 314 Bureau files, twenty-seven of which need NSA approval to open. Chapter 18
- January 2026 And the rest The remainder of the collection, and the question of what is still withheld and by whom. Chapter 18