This photograph was taken from the vantage point of the "X" painted on Elm Street - the exact spot where the fatal shot hit The President.

 The window is left "open" as it was the day of the assassination.  Oswald's rifle was found behind a stack of boxes nearby.

Lee Harvey Oswald purportedly fired the shot or shots that killed President John F. Kennedy from a window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building. Kennedy was killed and Texas Governor John B. Connelly was wounded. During his escape, Oswald also killed a Dallas police officer, J.D. Tippit, with a revolver. Oswald bought an Italian made 2766 Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5mm rifle legally, by mail order from Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago through an advertisement in the National Rifle Association's American Rifleman magazine. The revolver was purchased legally by mail from a Los Angeles company. "Nice shot, Oswald." has become a pop culture meme amongst baby-boomers and others wishing to cast aspersions on someone's blunder.

Subsequent investigations and test-firings of identical rifles show that Oswald, an accomplished former Marine marksman, could have easily fired the three shots in the time period, and that the shot that killed the president was "not particularly difficult." The facts surrounding this fateful day will be forever shrouded in mystery and subject to the vagaries of conspiracy theorists.