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John F. Kennedy 's Assassination

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John F Kennedy grew up in a wealthy and very political family. His assassination was a shock to many. It was a time of Cold War and the peak of US involvement in Vietnam. It is important to understand the John F. Kennedy regime including both its national and foreign policy. You also need to look into his personal life. This would help to create motives, and find the primary aspect to consider when looking into any homicide, assassination or murder. He was the first president who was a Boy Scout, the youngest ever to be elected president, He won the Pulitzer Prize in history for the book Profiles in Courage, and He was credited in starting the Peace Corp. Would all of this and perhaps more be the cause of his own death? Did Lee Harvey…show more content…
He learned very early in life to hate the world, learned early that he had to sink or swim on his own resources. It is sad that a child had to go through this at a young age but that is no excuse for him to do what he did If he did it or is this a conspiracy too? According to Mel Ayton “Oswald’s mental state does not have crisp, sharp-edged concepts”. It has also been said that he Shot John F Kennedy because he looked similar to his wife (marina’s) ex-boyfriend. Marina states that” Lee had no moral sense at all . . . only egotism, anger at others on account of his failures.” Lee Oswald had physiological issues as well.” Psychologically, Oswald had always been a loner and an outsider. He had always been attracted to things that would provide enhanced self-esteem, becoming a Marine, learning Russian, defecting to Russia, inventing a fictitious chapter of a radical political organization. But it was the attacks on his psyche in childhood – his father dying, his experiencing only sporadic and detached associations with his mother’s boyfriends, his relationship with an angry, unstable and domineering mother – that helped turn Lee’s psyche in adulthood into an embittered, angry misfit.” (AYTON) At last the most basic and dooming story originated from Marina Oswald, Harvey 's wife. In addition, her English was extremely poor and so some contend that it would not have been
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