Assassination of John F Kennedy

The unusual signs just prior to the Kennedy’s assassination led to some questions but everything went as planned because of the smoothness of executing the plan. Consequently, the Presidents car leaving the parade at ten miles an hour and left Oswald with a easier shot at President Kennedy. Also, the Presidents car leaving the parade through the new route was closer to Oswald’s hideout(John F.Kennedy Assassination Homepage).Subsequently,the new route disorientated the police guards at there post and it made the view for Oswald’s shot unmistakable at President Kennedy(Sneed 311).With everyone hearing a high powered rifle being shot, police had a tough time looking for the accurate suspect with a rifle because almost everyone in Dallas had one in there truck during the hunting season(Minutaglio 149).Thus,evidence showed that the assassination was well planned.

John F. Kennedy, the youngest elected and first catholic president was campaigning for a second term when he was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The accused shooter Lee Harvey Oswald, was first arrested for killing a police officer at point blank. It was shortly after the shooting when he was arrested with a gun in his possession at a nearby movie theater. He was then later accused of killing President Kennedy. The evidence presents that there could be alternatives to the official account that was made about the accuser. Conspiracies suggest Oswald acted alone, was framed, or worked with an organization to commit this crime.

November 24, just two days after the assassination of the president, Oswald was being transferred out of the Dallas police station where he had been interrogated. Oswald was shot and killed on live television by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner with links to local organized crime bosses. Based on his curious recent history and political affiliations, Oswald was a believable assassin in the eyes of the American public, and his death at the hands of Ruby seemed to bring closure to the astonishing case (“Alternative”).

Although Ruby claims to have murdered Oswald as revenge for killing President Kennedy, most people believe it was part of a cover up for a much larger conspiracy. After Ruby’s arrest, he was sentenced to death, only to have his trials postponed and die of lung cancer shortly after postponing the trial. While Oswald was in interrogation, he changed his story many times when asked routine questions such as “where were you at the time of the shooting”, or “explain to us what you did the day of the assassination”. He also denied any involvement in the incident even though there was evidence against him. Oswald was bound to face further, more intense interrogation in the future, and this is the reason most people believe that assassination of Oswald was to prevent him from talking about what actually happened in the Kennedy assassination.

As thousands of individuals heard the shots and witnessed the death of President Kennedy, a few key individuals were composed enough to provide crucial information regarding the horrific act. There were many photographers and individuals videotaping in the Dealey Plaza who captured one of the most devastating moments in United States history. Abraham Zapruder shot the “Zapruder film,” perhaps the most famous film from November 22, 1963 (Groden 20). Zapruder’s film is a relentless “clock” of the assassination. It not only gives a visual record of the reactions to the gunshots, but also represents a device to verify the timing between the shots fired, which occurred in an incredibly short time span, less than nine seconds (Groden 21). Video evidence from Zapruder and many others indicates that policemen and Secret Service agents on the scene did not turn towards the book depository when hearing the shots, but towards the grassy knoll. “More than 80 percent of eye witnesses interviewed were drawn

Lee Harvey Oswald had been seen minutes later after the assassination at the School Book Depository at the lunchroom in the building. (“Unsolved History: Episode 10-JFK Conspiracy”) Lee also works at the book depository and would have access to the 6th floor where the shooter was perched. This evidence places Lee at the scene of the crime. Lee Harvey returned to his house after leaving the crime scene at the Texas Book Depository and then, when police officer Tippit questioned him, Oswald shot the officer with a pistol. (“Unsolved History: Episode 10-JFK Conspiracy”) Lee Harvey Oswald wouldn’t have a gun on his person if he wasn’t nervous about being caught for his crime. He wouldn’t have killed the officer unless he was worried about being caught for assassinating John F Kennedy. People can be led to believe Oswald at the scene of the crime but at the wrong place and at the wrong time. There are a witnesses like Officer Baker who saw Oswald in the lunchroom of the Book Depository after the shooting thinking Oswald had been there the whole time. Their claim Lee Harvey Oswald was in the lunchroom is correct though Lee wasn’t in the lunchroom during the shooting but on the 6th story, firing the three shots that ended the president’s life. During a test conducted by Discovery Channel, it proved Lee

However, even if there are a lot of evidences that support the existance of the second sniper, some people and Warren Commission believe that the assassination was done by only Lee Harvey Oswald. Due to the examination of the penetration of the bullet, and the condition of Kennedy’s head after the shot have a possibility of alone crime. To know the bullet’s power of penetration, the examination which is to shoot the two piled pine woods has done, and the result shows that the bullet has enough power to penetrate the human bodies. In addition to the penetration of the bullet, another examination which is to shoot the compound of gelatin and glycerin indicated the stableness of the bullet while the bullet is passing through the body, and the

In 1992, Bonar Menninger released his assassination theory in the book Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK. The book details a claim that one of Kennedy's Secret Service agents, who was riding in the car behind the President, shot Kennedy by accident. Menninger worked with

leave Harvey Oswald's radical beliefs in politics and in communism justified his motives for killing President John F Kennedy. Odell Lee Harvey Oswald never admitted to the assassination of President John F Kennedy, there was loads of evidence against him. Lee Harvey Oswald was affiliated with many groups that would be pleased to have the President John F Kennedy assassinated. Lee Harvey Oswald believed in many things, one being

People think he was he serving as an agent of Cuba's Fidel Castro, himself the target of American assassins? Or in squeezing the trigger of his carbine was he undertaking some super dirty trick for a CIA anxious to rid itself of a president whose faith in the "company" had evaporated in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco? Or was he representing a group of Cuban exiles, the Teamsters Union, the Mafia? Indeed was it Lee Harvey Oswald at all who killed JFK?

The last stop for Kennedy in Texas, and for his whole life, was Dallas. Dallas seemed to be the most aggressive out of any other region in the state towards the president and his administration. When arriving in the city that Kennedy thought of most importantly on November 22, he and his wife got into a limousine that banded together with two cars containing police and the Secret Service. Driving towards the Trade Mart, the people of Dallas seemed more friendly towards Kennedy than expected with positive signs being held up in the air and cheering of the crowds. After about half an hour into the car ride one of the most shocking moments in American history occurred when a fire of a gun was heard three times by the people near the limousine that contained the president. Kennedy was shot with his cranium seriously damaged by the impact (Parmet, pg. 345-346).

It was a normal afternoon in Dallas, Texas. President John F. Kennedy was traveling in the presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. John F. Kennedy was spending some time with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas governor John Connally, and Nellie Connally. The birds were chirping and the crowds of people waiting to see the president were yelling and excited. Things seemed normal, and then gunshots rang out. Governor Connally had been shot in his shoulder, President John F. Kennedy had a hole in his head, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was reaching to the back of the car to grab a piece of her husband's skull, everyone was screaming, everyone was terrified. President John F. Kennedy was just assassinated. Kennedy was transported to the Dallas Parkland Hospital where he went into emergency surgery. Just 30 minutes after Kennedy had been shot, he was pronounced dead. An hour after Kennedy was shot outside of the Texas School Book Depository, Lee Harvey Oswald was identified as the assassin of John F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for murdering a Dallas Police Officer, J.D. Tippit, for questioning him for looking suspicious. After Oswald was arrested, they confirmed he was the main suspect for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Oswald was taken to the

Due to the vast speculations of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas the mystery of what really happened still lies amongst us today. From theory to theory there is no telling what the true motive in killing the President really was. Among the various theories are those that involve the Chicago mafia, Lee Harvey Oswald attempting the murder by himself, and the left and right wing factions of the U.S. government. After several investigations, there is no real proof, for any one of these theories.

On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot in the head by a sniper during a motorcade through downtown Dallas. In the car was his wife, Mrs. Kennedy and governor of Texas, John B. Connally. Witnesses reported that they heard three shots, the first of which killed President Kennedy and it was speculated that the shots emerged from a building just off the motorcade route. President Kennedy was rushed to the Dallas Parkland Hospital where he received immediate medical attention. Upon the arrival at Parkland hospital, President Kennedy was near death and according to the New York Times “A missile had gone in and out of the back of his head causing external lacerations and loss of brain tissue”. According to Walter Cronkite of the CBS evening news, “blood transfusions were being given to president Kennedy”. Shortly after Kennedy’s confirmed death, vice president Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as president. At the site of the crime, Lee H. Oswald was apprehended by police officers for being the prime suspect in Kennedy’s assassination. Social media erupted like never before on the day of President Kennedy’s death and communication through television, radio and the newspaper was at an all time importance. President Kennedy’s assassination broke the American Spirit as shown through media such as The New York Times and Walter Cronkite of CBS news. The emotional impact of Kennedy’s death altered the objective approach of media through New York Time’s description of Mrs.

On November 22, 1963 national tragedy struck America after the catastrophic death of the thirty-fifth president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Kennedy arrived in Dallas with his wife, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, by his side and rode in a convertible limousine behind John and Nellie Connolly through Dealy Plaza. When the motorcade took way through downtown Dallas, shots were fired at president Kennedy soon killing him. The assassination of president John F. Kennedy made questions surface about his death, and when those questions were left unanswered, distrust of the government in the 1960’s formed; in return led conspiracies to thrive.