John Connally

John B. Connally, Jr., and Sen. Ralph Yarborough, both Democrats. To present a show of unity, the president decided to tour the state with both men. On Friday, November 22, 1963, he and Jacqueline Kennedy were in an open limousine riding slowly in a motorcade…

John B. Connally in an open-car motorcade in Dealey Plaza. Oswald took a bus and a taxi to his rooming house, departed, and about a mile away was stopped by Patrolman J.D. Tippit, who believed that Oswald resembled the suspect already being described over the…

…the President’s throat also caused Governor Connally’s wounds. However, Governor Connally’s testimony and certain other factors have given rise to some difference of opinion as to this probability, but there is no question in the mind of any member of the Commission that all the shots which caused the President’s…

John Connally and his wife (who sat in jump seats in front of the Kennedys) to the president’s next stop, the Trade Mart, where Kennedy was scheduled to deliver another speech. An estimated 200,000 people lined the roughly 10-mile (16-km) route to the Trade Mart.

…the ticket in favour of John Connally. Connally instead helped Nixon by forming “Democrats for Nixon.” The longtime Democrat and friend of former president Lyndon B. Johnson could not swallow the idea of McGovern in the White House.

…Treasury secretary and Texas governor John Connally; and former representative and Central Intelligence Agency director George Bush.

John Connally created a commission to study the findings of Whitman’s autopsy and to try to understand his motives and actions. The initial autopsy discovered an astrocytoma tumour in Whitman’s brain but concluded that it had not influenced his behavior during the shooting. The Connally…