November 22, 1963 - Dean Rusk and Kennedy Cabinet returning to Washington, D.C. (Color)

When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, six members of his Cabinet plus his press secretary were out of the country, together on an airplane en route to Tokyo, Japan. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was traveling to Japan with six other cabinet members for a joint meeting with the Japanese cabinet. It was on the plane to Japan that Rusk and the other passengers learned that Kennedy had been shot in Dallas.

Members of President Kennedy's cabinet alighting from aircraft VC-137B. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in center talking with newsmen. With him, from left to right are Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Secretary of Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall, Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges, Dr. Walter Heller, Chairman of Council on Economic Advisors and Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz.

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