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Jfk Assassination Theory

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John F. Kennedy was only the fourth president to die by assassination in a nation that was less than 200 years old(Betsy).There are three theories that this essay will explore.Thyat the CIA played a part in planning the assassination another one is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA agent at the time and the theory that Cuba was behind the assassination.In the history books and the knowledge in everybody's head is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone shooter, but in the rest of this essay you`ll see that there are many more possible versions for what happened. But one thing for sure is that JFK died at the hands of somebody. On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was on his way to speak at a luncheon. As the car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza ,people heard gunfire coming from the Texas School Book Depository. People watched in horror as the president was shot in the neck and head (Death of a President). Just a few minutes later, the car arrived at Parkland Memorial hospital, …show more content…

After the Bay of Pigs incident people suspected Cuba of being behind the assassination, but Fidel Castro wanted to make sure he wasn't blamed, so he made a statement saying that this is absurd and nobody under his control had any ideas of organizing the death of the president of the United States and if he had heard of the plan he would've put a stop to it (Watkins). There is no evidence proving that Lee Harvey Oswald had any connection with Cuba when he committed the assassination of JFK. The only evidence to prove this theory is that he tried to get a visa to go to Cuba, but he was allegedly rejected because the government thought he was an undercover provocateur. (Lewis). There are many different theories as to what happened, but many people believe that the attempt would have had to come from a close source if they knew exactly when the best time that they can shoot and fatally hit the president

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