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The Assassination of President Kennedy Essay

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The Assassination of President Kennedy The assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 was a conspiracy against the government, for the government, and by the government. We, Americans, all have to sit back and wonder if an elected official or a Godfather of the Mafia is running our country. Who really has more power? With the assassination of President Kennedy we may have found our dreaded answer, and realized what our nation has become. The assassination of President Kennedy was one of mass conspiracy beginning on Capitol Hill and a tremendous double cross between Mafia and the government. It was fight for a strong hold on the oval office. Lyndon Johnson, Vice-President under Kennedy, with the help of Texas Governor John Connaly, …show more content…

The first gun shot sounded like a backfire from a car and was disregarded by the secret service as just that. The second shot struck the back of the President's neck, exiting through his esophagus, and proceeded through Governor John Connaly's shoulder, wrist, and ended by lodging its self in his left leg. Connaly was sitting directly in front of the president at the time of the assassination. The bullet, found in nearly mint condition, from the second stated shot was recovered and labeled exhibit 399 (6)*. The third and fatal shot sent a missile striking the right side of the President's head, causing it to burst open. The President's car sped off to Parkland Memorial Hospital were President Kennedy was pronounced dead. Within a few hours of the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, a staff member at the Texas Schoolbook Depository over looking Delay Plaza, was incarcerated in a nearby cinema for the murder of police officer JD Tippet. The FBI and Secret Service found a Mannlicher-Carcano high powered rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas SchoolBook Depository, and linked it directly to Lee Harvey Oswald. After hours of interrogation, Lee Harvey Oswald, having not confessed to any crimes, was charged with the murder of police officer Tippet, and as being the sole assassin in the assassination of the President. It was treated as an open and shut case. The next day Jack Ruby, a strip club owner in Dallas, shot and killed Oswald, the only prime suspect in the

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