12:30 PM (Central Time), November 22, 1963: Shots ring out in Dallas Texas.. The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is extremely lucky and hits President Kennedy in the head with the first shot. Due to the angle of the president at the time of the shooting and the trajectory of the shot, the bullet exits the front left side of the president's head, passes between Governor and Mrs. Connally (sitting in jump seats just ahead and slightly below the Kennedys), passes through the back of the driver's seat of the presidential limo, and enters the the lower back of the Secret Service agent behind the wheel. The agent lurches forward. Reacting without thinking, the agent takes his foot off of the car's accelerator. It rolls to a stop.