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Who Shot the Man Who Shot JFK?

Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, stood in the crowd in the basement of Dallas police headquarters on Nov. 24, 1963, as accused Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred from the city jail to the county jail. As a handcuffed Oswald was being led to a waiting police car, Ruby pointed a pistol and fired. The shooting was broadcast live to millions of viewers on NBC, the only television network carrying live coverage of Oswald’s transfer. Ruby was convicted of Oswald’s murder and died in prison in 1967.

Here's a tougher question about the events during JFK's presidency:

Which of the following did not occur during JFK's presidency?

a) Kennedy deploys U.S. Special Forces to train South Vietnamese soldiers to fight communist North Vietnam.

b) John Glenn becomes the first American and human being to step foot on the Moon.

c) The Soviet Union erects a wall dividing East and West Berlin to prevent East Berliners fleeing to the West.

d) Martin Luther King delivers his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” in Washington D.C. as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

e) Kennedy and the leaders of the Soviet Union and Great Britain sign the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons under water, in the Earth’s atmosphere, and in outer space.

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