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| − | The '''Kennedy assassination''' referred to the murder of the [[American]] [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] at [[Dealey Plaza]], in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] on [[22 November]] [[1963]]. |
+ | The '''Kennedy [[assassination]]''' referred to the [[murder]] of the 35th [[American]] [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] at [[Dealey Plaza]], in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] at 12:30pm on [[22 November]] [[1963]]. |
== The assassination == |
== The assassination == |
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| + | The Kennedy assassination was engineered by [[A (The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A)|an agent of the Great Houses]] during the [[War in Heaven]], overwriting a [[timeline]] in which he was infected by [[The Enemy|Enemy]] [[life-spore]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A (short story)|The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A]]'') Three [[Renegade Time Lord]]s would be present at the assassination in the new timeline. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'', ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]], who had used [[Nemesis]] once before, implied to [[Ace]] that the proximity of the statue to [[Earth]] had caused or influenced the assassination. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'') |
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| − | {{Delgado|c}} mentally programmed [[UNIT]] Private [[Francis Cleary]] and sent him from the [[1970s|near future]] to prevent the assassination. This would change history and possibly enable the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] to proceed in a way that would lead to a [[nuclear war]]. [[James Stevens]], a [[journalist]] obsessed with the assassination attempt, went to 1963 using a [[time ring]] to stop Cleary. Stevens discovered the actual gunman who had killed Kennedy and recognised him as an older version of Stevens himself, travelling back from the future a second time. In order to preserve the course of history, in [[1996]], after writing [[Who Killed Kennedy|a book revealing the truth]], he used the time ring again to carry out the [[assassination]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') |
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| − | One of Kennedy's last official acts before his assassination was to order [[Moonbase Eisenhower]] to shoot down the [[US Rocket Lincoln]], which had been stolen by the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Larisa Petrov]]. Although Kennedy did not rescind the order before his death, the [[moonbase]]'s commanding officer [[Paterson (The Space Race)|General Paterson]] countermanded it when Petrov contacted him and proved that she was an American spy working in the [[ |
+ | One of Kennedy's last official acts before his assassination was to order [[Moonbase Eisenhower]] to shoot down the [[US Rocket Lincoln]], which had been stolen by the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Larisa Petrov]]. Although Kennedy did not rescind the order before his death, the [[Moonbase (1963: The Space Race)|moonbase]]'s commanding officer [[Paterson (The Space Race)|General Paterson]] countermanded it when Petrov contacted him and proved that she was an American spy working in the [[Soviet Union]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: The Space Race (audio story)|1963: The Space Race]]'') |
| + | Kennedy visited [[Texas]] for the purposes of bolstering his popularity that would have been crucial for the [[1964|following year]]'s presidential [[election]]. It was the first time his [[wife]], [[Jackie Kennedy]], had accompanied him on a political visit anywhere within [[America]] since his own election in [[1960]]. |
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| − | [[Peri Brown]] once commented that everyone remembered where they were when Kennedy was assassinated. She was in the [[Baikunar Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhstan]] at the time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: The Space Race (audio story)|1963: The Space Race]]'') |
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| + | It was a sultry day in Dallas and the blazing sun had turned the morning [[rain]] into stifling humidity. The presidential motorcade was led by two [[motorcycle]] [[police]]men who made sure the road was clear ahead followed by the [[black]] open-top [[limousine]] containing the President which was then followed by several other similar vehicles. Several times Kennedy had snarled at Jackie to remove her [[sunglasses]] so that the thousands of American citizens in attendance could see her [[eye]]s. |
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| + | The motorcade came down [[Main Street]] towards [[Dealey Plaza]], turning right onto [[Houston Street]] past the [[Dallas County Criminal Courts Building]] with the inmates held in the cells having a grandstand view of the [[assassination]]. Once onto Houston Street, the motorcade braked to make a difficult left-hand turn into [[Elm Street]] in front of the [[Texas School Book Depository]]. The loss of speed dramatically extended the length of time necessary for the journey down the gently curving Elm Street towards the underpass. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') |
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| − | The [[Seventh Doctor]] implied to [[Ace]] that the proximity of [[Nemesis]] to [[Earth]] had caused or influenced the assassination. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') |
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| − | + | [[File:Berenyi 2.jpg|right|thumb|[[Berenyi]] within the [[Texas School Book Depository]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'')]] |
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| + | According to one account, the [[renegade Time Lord]] and [[mercenary]] [[Berenyi]] engineered the assassination for a [[German]] from the [[22nd century]] by designing the biography of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]]. Oswald wore a [[brown]] shirt with clear connotations, was the chairman of the [[Fair Play to Cuba]] committee, had a [[Russian]] wife, defected a few [[year]]s ago ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'') and was an employee of the Depository. According to another, Oswald acted alone and it was {{Delgado}} who attempted to prevent the assassination. He brought himself, the mentally programmed [[UNIT]] soldier [[Francis Cleary]] and [[James Stevens]] from [[1971]] to [[1963]] using [[Time Ring]]s. Stevens found Cleary and Oswald fighting over an [[Italian]]-made [[rifle]] on the sixth floor of the Depository. Cleary knocked Oswald unconscious and proceeded to the [[sniper]]'s nest. Stevens chased after him and incapacitated Cleary as well at which point the Master revealed his plan to prevent the assassination and enable the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] to proceed in a way which would lead to [[nuclear war]]. |
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| + | [[File:Kennedy assassination DWM.jpg|left|thumb|[[Lee Harvey Oswald]] prepares to fire. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'')]] |
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| − | A contemporary photo found by [[Clive (Rose)|Clive]] showed the [[Ninth Doctor]] as a spectator to the assassination. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') |
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| + | Told by the Master he could either save Kennedy or [[history]], Stevens chose to save Kennedy and shoot at the Master who was holding a black [[umbrella]] but as the sights in the rifle had been misaligned he missed and the bullet smashed into the sidewalk and up into the air harmlessly. Many onlookers mistook this first shot to be a firecracker. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') Then, either by Oswald from the Book Depository ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'') or an older version of Stevens from [[1996]] who had gone back in time to preserve history from behind the tall wooden fence behind the grassy knoll a second and third shot was fired which hit their target and Kennedy's head exploded with a spray of [[blood]], [[bone]] and [[brain]] matter flying up into the air. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') [[John Connally|Johnnie]], also in the presidential limousine, fell down with Jackie being covered in her husband's blood. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'') Immediately after, [[Jessica Willamy]] recalled seeing "Jackie scrambling to the back of the car to recover a piece of blood and brain-stained skull". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wonderland (novel)|Wonderland]]'') A [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] agent threw himself on the back of the vehicle and pushed her down into her seat, at the same time slamming his fist into the boot lid in apparent rage and frustration. The limousine began to speed away from the site of the shooting, down towards the underpass. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') |
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| + | [[File:Doctor observes assassination.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Ninth Doctor]] watches the motorcade pass in [[Dealey Plaza]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')]] |
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| − | [[Darius Pike]] showed [[K9 Mark 2|K9]], [[Starkey]] and [[Gryffen]] an issue of the ''[[Daily Standard]]'', with the latest news on the Kennedy assassination as the headline. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Cambridge Spy]]'') |
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| + | The [[Zapruder footage]] depicted the assassination ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conspiracy (audio story)|The Conspiracy]]'') and was recorded by [[Zapruder|Mr Zapruder]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') Soon after his [[regeneration]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] witnessed the assassination. His attendance was [[photograph]]ed and [[Clive Finch]] showed [[Rose Tyler]] the image he had recovered from the [[Washington public archive]] in [[2004]] when she visited on [[5 March]] [[2005]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') [[Adam Mitchell]] later obtained the same photograph. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Mystery Date (comic story)|Mystery Date]]'') Kennedy was rushed to the [[Parkland Memorial Hospital]] and was pronounced dead on arrival. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'', ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'') |
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| + | Stevens later wrote that America lost much of its innocence that day in [[Dallas]]. The assassination occurred on his eighteenth [[birthday]], which he was unable to celebrate as a result. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') [[Jessica Willamy]] considered it the end of her [[child]]hood. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wonderland (novel)|Wonderland]]'') [[Peri Brown]] once commented that everyone remembered where they were when Kennedy was killed. She was in the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhstan]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: The Space Race (audio story)|1963: The Space Race]]'') |
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| + | In the immediate aftermath, Stevens hid the [[rifle]] behind two boxes for the police to find. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') He roused Oswald from unconsciousness or according to another account Oswald continued to obey [[Berenyi]] and stumbled down the stairs. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'', ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'') According to both accounts, the perpetrators left before the police could find them. Stevens and [[Francis Cleary]] used the [[Time Ring]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') and Berenyi used [[Berenyi's TARDIS|her TARDIS]] which was disguised as a [[filing cabinet]]. From there, Oswald was seen by a [[policeman]] and then would go to a [[cinema]] where he would be caught. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'') The ''[[Daily Standard]]'' in [[London]] reported the capture of Oswald by law enforcement on [[23 November]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Cambridge Spy (TV story)|The Cambridge Spy]]'') The case never made it to trial ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') as Oswald was shot and killed by [[Jack Ruby]] working for the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] soon after. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'') |
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| + | On 23 November, [[Parkland Memorial Hospital]] was a prime source of grief and suffering for the [[Shroud]], and it was one of the first locations to succumb to it. [[FBI]] agent, [[Warren Skeet]] was employed to investigate the premises where the assassin had been spotted. Simultaneously, newspaper [[Dallas Morning News]] published a series of articles on the assassination, written by journalists [[Mae Callon]] and [[Jim (Shroud of Sorrow)|Jim]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'') |
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| ⚫ | Conspiracy theorist [[George Wilson]] suggested the assassination was carried out by aliens. He joked to [[Jack Harkness]] that he could say something as ridiculous as that, but if he referenced the wrong frame of the |
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| + | [[Jackie Kennedy]] refused to take off her blood-soaked clothes for [[hour]]s after the assassination. The new [[President of the United States|President]] [[Lyndon Baines Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]] set up a tribunal to investigate the matter and the [[Warren Commission]] found that Oswald had acted alone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') |
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| + | Stevens co-wrote a book with [[David Bishop]] called ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'' that revealed that he was the murderer but he doubted anyone would believe him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') |
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| + | The [[Eighth Doctor]] once claimed that he had been accused of the assassination. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') |
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| ⚫ | [[conspiracy theory|Conspiracy theorist]] [[George Wilson (The Conspiracy)|George Wilson]] suggested the assassination was carried out by aliens. He joked to [[Jack Harkness]] that he could say something as ridiculous as that, but if he referenced the wrong frame of the Zapruder footage, he would never hear the end of it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conspiracy (audio story)|The Conspiracy]]'') |
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| + | In the [[far future]], radio and television broadcasts concerning the assassination could be accessed via the [[Gogglebox]] inside [[the Moon]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'', ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'') |
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| + | According to one account, Kennedy originally lived past [[1963]] and became a very inspirational figure of the [[1960s]]. [[The Enemy|Enemy]] [[life-spore]]s infected Kennedy during his second term in office and almost used the [[psychic energy]] surrounding him to rewrite Earth's history, but he died of a [[heart attack]] in [[1967]] before that could happen. Despite this, [[A (The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A)|an agent of the Great Houses]] realised that the Enemy would still be able to fester in Kennedy's [[timeline]] and so arranged for him to be assassinated before he could be infected. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A (short story)|The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A]]'') |
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| + | In an [[alternate timeline]] caused by [[the Valeyard]]'s use of the [[Dark Matrix]], Kennedy was killed by [[zombie]]s some time prior to 1963. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]'') |
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| + | In an alternate timeline envisioned by [[James Stevens]], Kennedy survived the assassination while his [[Jackie Kennedy|wife]] died instead. His survival led to a [[nuclear war]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') |
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== Behind the scenes == |
== Behind the scenes == |
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| + | For its twentieth anniversary, [[author]] [[David Bishop]] wrote a new ending to ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]''. Instead of [[James Stevens]] using the last energy in the [[Time Ring]] to return to [[1963]] to shoot [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]], he had help from the [[Twelfth Doctor]] to return to [[1971]] to prevent [[Dodo Chaplet]] from being [[murder]]ed by [[Francis Cleary]]. The older Stevens and Cleary both died in the incident. This changed [[time]] so that he and Dodo had a happy life together, leaving the real question of who killed Kennedy unknown. |
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| + | The Kennedy assassination happened during the recording of an episode of ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', interrupting shooting as the cast and crews learned of the news. |
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| − | The Kennedy assassination happened during the recording of an episode of ''[[The Daleks]]'', interrupting shooting as the cast and crews learned of the news. A common rumour {{by whom}} {{fact}} states that news coverage of the killing caused the interruption of the normal television schedule, too, so that on 23rd November, 1963, one day after the assassination, the first episode of the first ''Doctor Who'' story, ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'', aired five minutes late; however it actually went out only ninety seconds later than scheduled. As the episode was not seen in parts of the country due to a power outage, it was rebroadcast the following week; it is often stated {{by whom}} that it was replayed due to the assassination coverage, but this too has been debunked. {{by whom}} {{fact}} |
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=== Other connections === |
=== Other connections === |
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| − | * The charity special [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'', which took place on 23 November in 1973, 1993 and 2013, includes a 1973 mention of the assassination having occurred ten years earlier. |
+ | * The charity special [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'', which took place on 23 November in 1973, 1993 and 2013, includes a 1973 mention of the assassination having occurred ten years earlier. |
| − | * In ''[[Doctor Who and the Crusaders]]'', a philosophical discussion at the beginning of the book makes note of the Kennedy assassination. |
+ | * In ''[[Doctor Who and the Crusaders (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Crusaders]]'', a philosophical discussion at the beginning of the book makes note of the Kennedy assassination. |
| + | * Chapter 6 of the [[The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|novelisation of ''The Evil of the Daleks'']] is titled 'Kennedy's Assassination', referring to [[Kennedy (The Evil of the Daleks)|the Kennedy from that story]] and his death at the hands of the [[Dalek]]s. |
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Revision as of 12:47, 7 November 2019
James Stevens takes aim at Kennedy. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
The Kennedy assassination referred to the murder of the 35th American President John F. Kennedy at Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, Texas at 12:30pm on 22 November 1963.
The assassination
The Kennedy assassination was engineered by an agent of the Great Houses during the War in Heaven, overwriting a timeline in which he was infected by Enemy life-spores. (PROSE: The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A) Three Renegade Time Lords would be present at the assassination in the new timeline. (TV: Rose, PROSE: Untitled, Who Killed Kennedy) The Seventh Doctor, who had used Nemesis once before, implied to Ace that the proximity of the statue to Earth had caused or influenced the assassination. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
One of Kennedy's last official acts before his assassination was to order Moonbase Eisenhower to shoot down the US Rocket Lincoln, which had been stolen by the Sixth Doctor and Larisa Petrov. Although Kennedy did not rescind the order before his death, the moonbase's commanding officer General Paterson countermanded it when Petrov contacted him and proved that she was an American spy working in the Soviet Union. (AUDIO: 1963: The Space Race)
Kennedy visited Texas for the purposes of bolstering his popularity that would have been crucial for the following year's presidential election. It was the first time his wife, Jackie Kennedy, had accompanied him on a political visit anywhere within America since his own election in 1960.
It was a sultry day in Dallas and the blazing sun had turned the morning rain into stifling humidity. The presidential motorcade was led by two motorcycle policemen who made sure the road was clear ahead followed by the black open-top limousine containing the President which was then followed by several other similar vehicles. Several times Kennedy had snarled at Jackie to remove her sunglasses so that the thousands of American citizens in attendance could see her eyes.
The motorcade came down Main Street towards Dealey Plaza, turning right onto Houston Street past the Dallas County Criminal Courts Building with the inmates held in the cells having a grandstand view of the assassination. Once onto Houston Street, the motorcade braked to make a difficult left-hand turn into Elm Street in front of the Texas School Book Depository. The loss of speed dramatically extended the length of time necessary for the journey down the gently curving Elm Street towards the underpass. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
Berenyi within the Texas School Book Depository. (PROSE: Untitled)
According to one account, the renegade Time Lord and mercenary Berenyi engineered the assassination for a German from the 22nd century by designing the biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald wore a brown shirt with clear connotations, was the chairman of the Fair Play to Cuba committee, had a Russian wife, defected a few years ago (PROSE: Untitled) and was an employee of the Depository. According to another, Oswald acted alone and it was the Master who attempted to prevent the assassination. He brought himself, the mentally programmed UNIT soldier Francis Cleary and James Stevens from 1971 to 1963 using Time Rings. Stevens found Cleary and Oswald fighting over an Italian-made rifle on the sixth floor of the Depository. Cleary knocked Oswald unconscious and proceeded to the sniper's nest. Stevens chased after him and incapacitated Cleary as well at which point the Master revealed his plan to prevent the assassination and enable the Cuban Missile Crisis to proceed in a way which would lead to nuclear war.
Lee Harvey Oswald prepares to fire. (PROSE: Untitled)
Told by the Master he could either save Kennedy or history, Stevens chose to save Kennedy and shoot at the Master who was holding a black umbrella but as the sights in the rifle had been misaligned he missed and the bullet smashed into the sidewalk and up into the air harmlessly. Many onlookers mistook this first shot to be a firecracker. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Then, either by Oswald from the Book Depository (PROSE: Untitled) or an older version of Stevens from 1996 who had gone back in time to preserve history from behind the tall wooden fence behind the grassy knoll a second and third shot was fired which hit their target and Kennedy's head exploded with a spray of blood, bone and brain matter flying up into the air. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Johnnie, also in the presidential limousine, fell down with Jackie being covered in her husband's blood. (PROSE: Untitled) Immediately after, Jessica Willamy recalled seeing "Jackie scrambling to the back of the car to recover a piece of blood and brain-stained skull". (PROSE: Wonderland) A Secret Service agent threw himself on the back of the vehicle and pushed her down into her seat, at the same time slamming his fist into the boot lid in apparent rage and frustration. The limousine began to speed away from the site of the shooting, down towards the underpass. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
The Ninth Doctor watches the motorcade pass in Dealey Plaza. (TV: Rose)
The Zapruder footage depicted the assassination (AUDIO: The Conspiracy) and was recorded by Mr Zapruder. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Soon after his regeneration, the Ninth Doctor witnessed the assassination. His attendance was photographed and Clive Finch showed Rose Tyler the image he had recovered from the Washington public archive in 2004 when she visited on 5 March 2005. (TV: Rose) Adam Mitchell later obtained the same photograph. (COMIC: Mystery Date) Kennedy was rushed to the Parkland Memorial Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy, Shroud of Sorrow)
Stevens later wrote that America lost much of its innocence that day in Dallas. The assassination occurred on his eighteenth birthday, which he was unable to celebrate as a result. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Jessica Willamy considered it the end of her childhood. (PROSE: Wonderland) Peri Brown once commented that everyone remembered where they were when Kennedy was killed. She was in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (AUDIO: 1963: The Space Race)
Aftermath
In the immediate aftermath, Stevens hid the rifle behind two boxes for the police to find. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) He roused Oswald from unconsciousness or according to another account Oswald continued to obey Berenyi and stumbled down the stairs. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy, Untitled) According to both accounts, the perpetrators left before the police could find them. Stevens and Francis Cleary used the Time Ring (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) and Berenyi used her TARDIS which was disguised as a filing cabinet. From there, Oswald was seen by a policeman and then would go to a cinema where he would be caught. (PROSE: Untitled) The Daily Standard in London reported the capture of Oswald by law enforcement on 23 November. (TV: The Cambridge Spy) The case never made it to trial (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) as Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby working for the Central Intelligence Agency soon after. (PROSE: Untitled)
On 23 November, Parkland Memorial Hospital was a prime source of grief and suffering for the Shroud, and it was one of the first locations to succumb to it. FBI agent, Warren Skeet was employed to investigate the premises where the assassin had been spotted. Simultaneously, newspaper Dallas Morning News published a series of articles on the assassination, written by journalists Mae Callon and Jim. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow)
Jackie Kennedy refused to take off her blood-soaked clothes for hours after the assassination. The new President Lyndon Johnson set up a tribunal to investigate the matter and the Warren Commission found that Oswald had acted alone. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
Ian Chesterton had pondered the possibility of a Russian invasion during the turmoil after Kennedy's death. (AUDIO: 1963)
Stevens co-wrote a book with David Bishop called Who Killed Kennedy that revealed that he was the murderer but he doubted anyone would believe him. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
References
The Third Doctor mentioned to James Stevens in a telephone call that the prevention of the assassination would cause an historical embolism, which would result in the Doctor himself being erased from existence. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) However, the crew of the Teselecta stated that the Kennedy assassination was an example of how time could be rewritten. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
The Eighth Doctor once claimed that he had been accused of the assassination. (AUDIO: Zagreus)
Conspiracy theorist George Wilson suggested the assassination was carried out by aliens. He joked to Jack Harkness that he could say something as ridiculous as that, but if he referenced the wrong frame of the Zapruder footage, he would never hear the end of it. (AUDIO: The Conspiracy)
In the far future, radio and television broadcasts concerning the assassination could be accessed via the Gogglebox inside the Moon. (AUDIO: The Reaping, The Gathering)
Alternate timelines
According to one account, Kennedy originally lived past 1963 and became a very inspirational figure of the 1960s. Enemy life-spores infected Kennedy during his second term in office and almost used the psychic energy surrounding him to rewrite Earth's history, but he died of a heart attack in 1967 before that could happen. Despite this, an agent of the Great Houses realised that the Enemy would still be able to fester in Kennedy's timeline and so arranged for him to be assassinated before he could be infected. (PROSE: The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A)
In an alternate timeline caused by the Valeyard's use of the Dark Matrix, Kennedy was killed by zombies some time prior to 1963. (PROSE: Matrix)
In an alternate timeline envisioned by James Stevens, Kennedy survived the assassination while his wife died instead. His survival led to a nuclear war. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
Behind the scenes
For its twentieth anniversary, author David Bishop wrote a new ending to Who Killed Kennedy. Instead of James Stevens using the last energy in the Time Ring to return to 1963 to shoot Kennedy, he had help from the Twelfth Doctor to return to 1971 to prevent Dodo Chaplet from being murdered by Francis Cleary. The older Stevens and Cleary both died in the incident. This changed time so that he and Dodo had a happy life together, leaving the real question of who killed Kennedy unknown.
The premiere of Doctor Who on 23 November 1963 happened just one day after the Kennedy assassination, a fact frequently mentioned in media overviews and non-fiction literature on Doctor Who.
The Kennedy assassination happened during the recording of an episode of The Daleks, interrupting shooting as the cast and crews learned of the news.
Other connections
- The charity special NOTVALID: Dimensions in Time, which took place on 23 November in 1973, 1993 and 2013, includes a 1973 mention of the assassination having occurred ten years earlier.
- In Doctor Who and the Crusaders, a philosophical discussion at the beginning of the book makes note of the Kennedy assassination.
- Chapter 6 of the novelisation of The Evil of the Daleks is titled 'Kennedy's Assassination', referring to the Kennedy from that story and his death at the hands of the Daleks.
- Kennedy's assassination was mentioned in the docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time.
