When news about the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, sped across the world, most Australians were asleep blissfully unaware of the seismic events thousands of kilometres away in Dallas.Due to the time difference, news of Kennedy's murder only started trickling through to Australia at about 4.30am the following day, a Saturday.Hours before, adoring crowds in the Texas city had watched the US president's motorcade fatefully flash past them as it came under the aim of gunman Lee Harvey Oswald awaiting on the Texas School Book Depository's sixth level.
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