The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the most tragic events that shaped America. JFK was born on May 19, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, but little did he know that his life would be abbreviated in his future. Kennedy became the thirty-fifth President of the United States; he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. He was allegedly shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. Although, many pieces of evidence conclude that Oswald could not have done the deed by himself. There is a broad conspiracy behind this major assassination. The conspiracy consists of the “single bullet theory” introduced by former United States Senator Arlen Specter; it also implicates future presidents of the United States, including George H. W. Bush, …show more content…
He takes one of its notepads embossed with the presidential seal, and writes his immediate priorities:
1. Staff
2. Cabinet
3. Leadership (Mayo 240).”
Although Johnson was not the one who pulled the trigger on that November day, he might have enlisted assassins to kill Kennedy. Witnesses did not see these hired assassins but their intuition gave clues as to what was invaluable toward solving this major case. Many witnesses to the case believed that Lee Harvey Oswald could not have committed the murder for which he was accused. The Warren Commission individually interviewed each witness. Many said that they smelled gun powder, or heard the shots ring out from somewhere near the Grassy Knoll. “Senator Yarborough's statement that all the shots ‘came from my right rear’...he smelled gunpowder as the car drove away through the underpass” (http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues.html). It is not possible to smell the gun powder from a gun that is more than seventy meters away. Although many witnesses said that Oswald could not have shot President Kennedy, other witnesses thought otherwise. “Twenty-year-old James Worrell Jr. has his back to the depository and is looking straight up. He can see a gun barrel sticking out of a window” (Mayo 50). Others inside of the book depositary building said that they heard or saw the circumstances of the gun being fired. “… Bonnie Ray Williams heard second shot rattle the
Kennedy?). This statement goes against the Warren Commission because the Warren Commission states that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone shooter, whereas evidence in Kennedy’s dead body as well as the Zapruder films proves how the president moved back from the bullet and was shot in the front of his throat/neck, not the back. A witness told the Warren Commission he heard three to four shots that came from trees on the grassy knoll. The Warren Commission fails to prove the “magic bullet” really did go through Kennedy and Connally from
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.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the most controversial and debated topics in American History. JFK was one of the most beloved presidents of our time. One article of his death wrote, "The day the country cried". Unlike previous presidential assassinations, the JFK assassination is one that is filled the conspiracy theories. Such theories include a Government cover-up, Mafia influence and Cuban President Fidel Castro. The idea of a lone mind, Lee Harvey Oswald, plotting to kill President Kennedy is too simple. In the eyes of scholars there is simply no way that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Even with the growing number of bogus theories, there are a number of logical theories that do hold water. In this paper I will discuss
On November 22, 1963 United States President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas Texas. In September 1964 the Warren Commission, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, presented an official report documenting the details of the assassination. This report concluded that Kennedy was killed by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald, and that Oswald acted alone. Ever since then there has been speculation concerning the validity of the Warren Commission. For over fifty years conspiracy theorists have been uncovering the “truth” behind Kennedy’s assassination. These theories, however, are largely unfounded, and supported by no hard evidence. In contrast, the meticulously detailed Warren Report, available in the National Archives, provides countless pieces of closely analyzed evidence, all corroborating the same, controversial claim. Regardless of popular American disbelief, the fact remains that Lee Harvey Oswald is alone responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as described by the Warren Commission.
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.
The Truth Behind the Assassination of JFK Adolf Hitler, once said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it. " There have been many different stories regarding what truly happened on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy meet his untimely demise. For many years, it has been believed that Lee H. Oswald single-handedly executed a plan he concocted to assassinate the thirty-fifth president of the United States of America. However, that story could not be further from the truth. In this paper, I hope to shed some light on what occurred.
One of those buildings is the previous Texas School Book Depository, from which, as stated in the Warren Report, Oswald fired a rifle and shot Kennedy. To the west of the plaza is a triple passageway underneath a railroad bridge, where the motorcade sped after the shots were fired. Kennedy was not the only victim during the shooting but Texas Governor John Connally was wounded “with the second shot” (Rubinstein), who recollected seeing a lump of President Kennedy’s brain fall onto his pants. The Warren Commission conducted the “magic-bullet theory” in which, before entering Connally’s back, one of the bullets penetrated Kennedy’s neck, went through the chest, passed through his right wrist and punctured his left thigh. However, Connally disagreed with this theory. According to a handful of witnesses, there are three possibilities of where these bullets came from. Many believe the bullets came from the sixth floor of the Book Depository, also known as “sniper’s lair”. Others believe bullets came from “grassy knoll” and some suppose the bullets came from both locations. The window in which Oswald allegedly shot the president is on the sixth floor of the Book Depository and has boxes stacked on each other in order to steady the rifle for aim. There is a perfect view of where the president was shot, and a rifle and bullets were later found in the room. The grassy knoll is a slight, inclined mound inside the plaza and was
This links to the conspiracy theory in the sense that the theories were right or had one thing in common, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy. The conclusion by Warren report is based on the following information. The murder weapon was Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5-millimeter Italian rifle which was owned by Oswald. Oswald was also seen to carry the rifle into the building on the morning of the incident. After the assassination the rifle was found hidden and covered with the paper bag used by Oswald to carry the rifle (Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy). Jack Rubby later seeing no other way to silence Oswald , opt for one solution, murder. And that is how Oswald met his death "Assassination of John F. Kennedy". According to Waldron (6) the investigation led Congress in 1979 to make a conclusion that JFK was killed as a result of conspiracy where Carlos Marcello had the motives, means as well as the opportunity. Waldron (20) argue further that as John became President and Robert being attorney General, they tried in vain to convict Marcello as part of their massive efforts to end organized crime .The war against the mob eventually became Marcello's reason to kill JFK. It is believed, by historians that FBI had not followed up on the House Committee’s of 1979 recommendation to investigate Marcello further for JFK's
Through extensive research and close observation many people have worked to prove that Oswald did not murder JFK, and that the murder was a cover up. Government officials concluded that JFK was killed by a single shot. However, there were seven wounds found on JFK and Governor Connally (Southwell). To challenge the government’s conclusion Former Navy Lieutenant Josiah Thompson watched the film of JFK being shot very closely. Thompson concluded that there were shots coming from different directions (Hall).
The second suspected killer of JFK is Lyndon Baynes Johnson. LBJ main suspicion of hiring someone to kill the president is for more
Three different MOB groups claimed to be responsible for the assassination. Those being the Chicago MOB, Miami MOB, and the New Orleans MOB. One piece of evidence backing up this theory is that Kennedys attorney General had made moves against organized crime and hat angered them. Also, Jack Ruby the man responsible for killing Oswald was a Dallas nightclub owner who many believed had Mafia connections. Many were convinced that Ruby was working with the CIA to kill Kennedy. Another theory is theory and the most popular yet, is the there were two shooters. The Warren commission believes that the second bullet hit both Kennedy and Connally, this theory is referred as the ‘magic bullet theory.’ Many don’t agree with this theory claiming that it would have been impossible for Oswald to have made that shot from the sixth-floor window. But if this is untrue, then there had to be two shooters because Oswald would not have had enough time to fire two bullets within the time span that both Kennedy and Oswald were
An hour after Kennedy’s death, Oswald was arrested and convicted of killing the President. Two days later Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. It has been said that Harvey was standing on the sixth floor of the Texas School Depository Building when he fired the two shots that killed Kennedy. Police also thought that Oswald could not have acted alone. In the Zapruder film, when Kennedy is shot, he falls forward. If kennedy was shot from the front, he would have fallen backwards. After investigating the assassination more they discovered that Oswald did not kill Kennedy. The records that have not been released on Kennedy’s assassination is said to be released in October 2017 (Why the Last JFK Files Could Embarrass the
A brief history of the investigations of the JFK murder is required to be able to understand the timeline of events. On November 22, 1963 John F Kennedy was assassinated. Seven days later, Lyndon B Johnson authorized the Warren Commission to perform an investigation of JFK’s murder. After about a year of investigation, the commission determined that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president; however, this lead to many conspiracy theories about JFK’s death. One popular theory, or the magic bullet theory, states that as both JFK and another passenger were shot, so Oswald could
Two eyewitnesses- Depository Superintendent Roy Truly and Police Officer M.L. Baker arrived at the second floor of the Depository Building minutes after hearing shots being fired. One other eyewitness, Robert A. Reid, who was also an employee at the Depository Building and knew Oswald personally testified that she saw him on the second floor about two to three minutes after the shooting. Tests were conducted to demonstrate that Oswald did have enough time to fire all of the shots and still have enough time to go down four flights of stairs and end up on the second floor (Warren Commission
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened…or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.” states Tupac Shakur. Many people in today’s world dwell on things like the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. On the day of November 22, 1963 the history of the United States was changed forever. This event was the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and is one of the most interesting topics in American history because there are conspiracy theories surrounding the event despite no actual evidence behind a cover up of the assassination. Looking back on Kennedy’s and Oswald’s (his killer) lives and deaths, the reasons why there was an assassination, and the aftermath following that tragic day in November give us reasons to dwell in the past but we must move on.