BULLETIN BULLETIN BULLETIN
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A sniper seriously wounded President Kennedy in downtown Dallas today, perhaps fatally.
Photographer James W. Altgens said he saw blood on the President's head. Altgens said he heard two shots and thought it was fireworks until he saw blood on the President.
AP reporter Jack Bell asked Kenneth O'Donnell, Presidential Assistant if Kennedy was dead. O'Donnell gave no answer.
Kennedy was reported taken to Parkland Hospital, near the Dallas Trade Mart, where he was to have made a speech.
He lay on the seat of the car, bloodstained, but breathing.
The Secret Service waved the motorcade on at top speed to the hospital. Even at top speed it took five minutes to arrive at the ambulance entrance of the hospital.
Reporters saw Kennedy laying flat on his face on the seat of his car.
Mrs. Kennedy was weeping and trying to hold up her husband's head when reporters reached the car.
Governor Connally was also shot but was reported to be conscious when he arrived at the hospital with the President.
Albert Thomas (D-Texas) said he was informed that the President and Gov. Connally were still alive, but critically injured.
