The nation is set to mark 61 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as his motorcade passed through downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

The life insurance policy on the man who assassinated President John F.

Mike Cochran, who during a nearly 40-year career with The Associated Press told the stories of Texas’ larger-than-life characters with his rich and detailed writing, and who ended up serving as a pallbearer for Lee Harvey Oswald while covering the presidential assassin’s funeral, has died.

The National Archives has made public nearly 1,500 documents related to the U.S. government’s investigation into the 1963 assassination of President John F.

FILE - In this May 12, 2008, file photo, Marie Tippit, the widow of former Dallas Police Officer J.D. Marie Tippit who was devoted to helping others, and spent her life focused on God and her family, has died at age 92. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)DALLAS – Marie Tippit, the widow of the Dallas police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald about 45 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. Marie Tippit told The Associated Press in 2013 that it was “just remarkable that I kept going" after her husband’s death. In 2013, Marie Tippit spoke about a letter she received shortly after her husband's death from another young widow, Jacqueline Kennedy.

Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, but it might not be an obvious fact to many that Oswald and Kennedy actually had their respective funerals on the same day.