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The Assassination Of Dr. F. Kennedy Essay

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On November 22, 1963, the world was stunned as they watched the president’s brain be spilt in the back seat of a limousine. President John F. Kennedy was riding in a motorcade parade along Elm Street of downtown Dallas, Texas, when gunshots were heard. Instantly, bystanders were running for their lives as a gunman, or gunmen, was on the prowl. Lee Harvey Oswald, ex-marine, the perceived assassin, was accused just seconds later and captured merely an hour and a half after the search began. Oswald was to stay in Dallas for the days prior to his transfer to the county jail. Whilst in the basement of the Dallas Police Station before his transfer, just two days later, Jack Ruby was able to waltz past countless guards, through locked doors, and place a gun on the stomach of Oswald in an attempt to end his life. Soon after, the prime suspect of the biggest assassination in history was pronounced dead. So, this leads to the 50+ years long question; “Did Lee Harvey Oswald actually assassinate the president? Or was he a simple fall man?”. In Richard Belzer’s New York Times Best Selling Book Hit List, he utilizes a source from Richard Charnin, a control engineer/programmer for Grumman Aerospace Corporation, to edge that…. In the 14 years that followed the JFK assassination, there were a minimum of 70 unnatural deaths out of approximately 1,400 witnesses. The probability [of deaths]

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