Essay on The J.F.K. Conspiracy

This paper will focus on the tragic assassination of America’s beloved 35th President John F. Kennedy. As we all know, Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, but why, and did he work alone? This paper will investigate the facts and leave the reader with some of the conspiracy theories that exist regarding this topic. Does anyone really know the truth?

Contrary to the Warren Commission’s findings, Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, did not kill President John F. Kennedy. There are several crucial areas of evidence, which prove Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill the president. Numerous eyewitness accounts show that the shots came from the direction of the grassy knoll (Jack Hill), and not from the Texas School Book Depositary. The number and timing of the bullets fired again prove that Oswald, acting alone, did not kill President Kennedy. Oswald also could not possibly have had the opportunity to shoot President Kennedy, and the rifle in question

Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner in Dallas, murdered Lee Harvey Oswald as Oswald was being transferred to the county jail. Although Ruby has never been linked conclusively to the mafia, it is possible that the nature of his business required him to cross paths with underworld criminals. Ruby may have been told by a high ranking person in the mafia to kill Oswald so he couldn’t tell anything to the police.

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

The 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination was commemorated on November 22, 2013. President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The final report presented by the commission claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president. (Wikipedia, 2013). This report has proven to be highly controversial among citizens. There have been many theories as to who killed Kennedy, why they did it, and from what location. There are some theories that are more prominent than others such as: The CIA, The Mafia, The anti-Castro Cubans, a man from the Secret Service, and Lee Harvey Oswald. There are other theories believing that Lyndon B. Johnson and UFO specialists may have been involved. Each one of these theories will be explored throughout this paper.

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

Lets assume that one of these groups did want to kill Kennedy. Oswald would have been

Close to the window on the sixth floor where the empty bullet shells were found, there were several heavy cardboard boxes of books, which the gunman would almost certainly have had to move. Oswald left fingerprints and palmprints on two of the boxes. One palmprint had been placed on a box at some point during the three days before the assassination; the other prints were probably older. Oswald may have left the prints when shooting President Kennedy, but he may simply have left them as part of his job, which involved handling cartons of books on the sixth

trigger. Oswald was just an easy mark to pin the crime on, he was set up, most likely by the CIA

• While Oswald was running from the scene a police officer named J. D. Tippit stops him and Oswald shoots him 4 times until he was totally

The reports of the day show the shots were fired from the sixth floor upon entering 90 seconds later. Oswald was eating on the first floor in the cafeteria. While he was eating he was very calm and was just sitting there eating like normal. If he had shot and killed the President of the United States, I think he would have tried to fight off in the school book depository. Instead of just sitting in the cafeteria eating his food like it was a normal day.

He tells exactly how fast the bullet was traveling and where the bullets struck Kennedy. One of the bullets is called, “The Magic Bullet” because it went through Kennedy and entered Governors Connally’s back. He goes on describing exactly what happened after Kennedy was shot and how the world first heard of the president’s death. Oswald was dragged out the Texas Theatre and taken to

Oswald ended up dying 2 hours later at the same hospital that president Kennedy was taken to. Oswald was a former Navy Seal. Oswald worked in the Texas School Depository and supposedly that’s where the president was shot

Robert Jackson, a man at the scene of the shooting, stated in an interview with Mr. Specter what he had seen when he had looked up at the School Book Depository right across from him. “I saw the rifle, or what looked like a rifle approximately half of weapon, I guess I saw. and just looked at it, it was drawn fairly slowly back into the building, and I saw no one in the window with it.” (Jackson). The School Book Depository was where Lee Harvey Oswald worked, giving him the ability to reach the window on the sixth floor. The last time Oswald was seen before the gun was shot was about thirty-five minutes beforehand. With boxes placed as a rest for shooting the rifle and a paper bag used to hold the rifle, Oswald was ready to commit an act that

This event garnered national attention following the death of president kennedy culminating in the unlikely assassination of Oswald himself, while in police custody. These events are so important to this time period and the subsequent inauguration of president Johnson that it is highly neglectful of Hunt to leave out this pivotal portion of history. Hunt even fails to provide insight on the immediate impacts of the assassination. At 2:30 pm just an hour and a half after the president is announced dead, President Lyndon B Johnson is sworn in on JFK’s Bible aboard Air Force One, next to his wife and Mrs. Kennedy, who is still in her blood stained outfit. Johnson is thrust into presidency in the midst of tragedy a mere hour after kennedy was killed. This in itself displays the importance of this event and how it was a matter of national security to have Johnson sworn in immediately especially in light of cold war tensions at the time. Oswald is later charged with the murder of Kennedy and Officer Tippit. In self defense Oswald claims he committed no crime and claimed he was only arrested on the basis that he had previously lived in the Soviet Union. Another key detail the author fails to provide is the assassination of Oswald himself which was a matter of intense national