Texas Governor John Connally was wounded during President Kennedy's shooting.
Virginia Connally, age 27, braved opposition and criticism to
become the first female physician in Abilene, Texas.
Connally is also an instructor at the Crane Safety Climber School,
a class for arborists working with cranes for tree work.
One missed the vehicle entirely, another hit Kennedy and Connally, and the third was the fatal head shot to JFK.
One was the governor of Texas, John Connally, sustaining a serious chest wound that punctured
and collapsed his right lung, though he survived.
Governor Connally, who was riding in the front with his wife,
was reported to have gotten injured by the same bullet that first hit Kennedy.
The President was traveling in Dallas in an open-top convertible along with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy,
the Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, on a route that was planned to give
him maximum exposure to the crowds.