November 22 · This Day in America
It is a bright Friday in Texas, and the top is down on the limousine because the crowds want to see them. At 12:30 p.m. the motorcade turns onto Elm Street through Dealey Plaza. Shots crack across the plaza. President John F. Kennedy is struck in the neck and head; Governor John Connally is wounded beside him. The car races to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where at 1:00 p.m. the President is pronounced dead. He is forty-six. Aboard Air Force One on the ground in Dallas, at 2:38 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson takes the oath of office, Jacqueline Kennedy standing beside him in the clothes she had not changed. Within hours a young nation watching on live television has aged. A decade of confidence does not end this afternoon, but something in it never fully returns. The country would remember exactly where it was standing.
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Also on this day · 1718
The pirate Edward Teach — Blackbeard — had terrorized Atlantic shipping from a base in the Carolina sounds. On November 22, 1718, Royal Navy lieutenant Robert Maynard, dispatched by Virginia's governor, cornered him at Ocracoke Inlet. The fight was short and savage; Blackbeard fell on the deck of Maynard's sloop. His severed head was hung from the bowsprit as proof, and the most feared name on the American coast passed into legend the same week it ended.
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