ew York – Just days after the inauguration, President Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, was shot during a motorcade drive through downtown Dallas at 10p.m. this afternoon. He died in the emergency room of the Parkland Memorial Hospital 32 minutes after the attack. He was 78 years old. He is the fourth President to be assassinated in office since Abraham Lincoln and the first since President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963.
Police held as chief suspect Louis Saunders, said to be a self-styled Communist who once renounced his US citizenship and unsuccessfully sought to become a Russian citizen. The chairman of a “Fair Play for Cuba” committee, he was arrested in a cinema after a policeman had been killed.
Within an hour of the President’s death, the Secret Service had found a sniper’s nest inside the building from which the first witnesses swore the bullets had been fired. It is a warehouse for a school text book firm, know as the Texas School Depository, on the corner of Elm and Houston Streets.