The Warren Commission Essay

According to findings of the Select Committee on Assassinations, Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at President John F. Kennedy. While all but one bullet hit the President, the third and final shot fired killed the President. They believe that President Kennedy was struck by two rifle shots fired from behind him from the sixth floor window of the southeast

Where the wound actually was. Now, while you might be thinking, That’s not a big change! – just you wait. Here we go. His account reversed again when he told Harrison Livingstone in 1990: “There was a big hunk of his scalp and hair blown out of the back of his head.” Now things were getting dynamic. Just a COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER, moreover, O’Connor appeared on a 5-14-90 episode of Hard Copy. And you know what he said? “The whole right side of the President’s head was blown off.” Wow. Well, there you go, Paul O’Connor’s description of Kennedy’s head wound has not been consistent. And…yep, you probably guessed it…it continued on, back and forth over the next couple of years. ASTOUNDINGLY, in 1991 O’Connor spoke at the first annual Assassination Symposium on John F. Kennedy (known as the A.S.K. or ASK conference) and said – get this – that he saw NO hole in the back of the head! HOLY SMOKES. Now seriously, why don’t researchers who talk about O’Connor tell their readers about this??? Why? Sigh, I haven’t a

On the day of JFK's shooting there was three shots from a gun but that gun couldn’t have shot that fast and reloaded. It states in the article The JFK Assassination, Background information “The revised route had the motorcade turning right on Houston Street and the left on Elm street. If the motorcade stayed on the original route it would have never passed by the Texas School depository (where Oswald was) or the grassy knoll (where the true shooters could have been hiding.”

The throat wound was found to be an inch lower than Kennedy’s adams apple, and the Warren Commission had it an inch lower than that. The location was not where the Warren Commission said it was at because there was no bullet hole there, and there was no bullet damage to his tie (“Who Killed president Kennedy”). There was damage to his tie, but that couldn’t have been caused by the bullet. It was caused by a surgical instrument. The reason it couldn’t have been caused by a bullet is because there was copper found around the bullet hole in his shirt, but none on the tie (“Who Killed president Kennedy”). Another big problem was the location of the back wound. It is identified to be between four and six inches below the top of the shirt collar. Therefore, the bullet hole in Kennedy’s back was lower than the one that exited his throat (Flynn). If Oswald did shoot from the sixth-floor window, there is no way that the bullet could have entered four to six inches below the shirt collar as described in the autopsy and exited through his throat. The bullet would have been following a downward path and, therefore, would have exited lower than it entered (Flynn). This means that the two wounds were either caused by separate bullets, or that the bullet was fired from somewhere other than the sixth-floor window. There should also be at least one more bullet to account for the wounds

It was believed in the “Oswald lone shooting” theory that he shot one bullet. From educated background knowledge about rifles, the rifle believed to be used in the assassination might have been accurate enough to get the job done, but at the angle and height it would have been almost impossible to make the shot. That bullet was believed to have traveled from the sixth floor of the book depository on a downward slant. It had to be timed perfectly considering the target was moving at fourteen miles an hour. While this seems like a hard shot to make already, the bullet entered Kennedy's back and then moved upward on an apparent ricochet, out his throat and into John Connelly’s chest, where it created seven wounds all together (“JFK Assassination”). “There is no way that one bullet was shot. In the video Kennedy moves more than once” (Bradford). Many people have doubted the one bullet

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.

A close analysis of the Zapruder film, which shows the entire assassination, proves that the shots came from the grassy knoll. The knoll, at the time of the fatal headshot, was to the right and slightly in front of the limousine. The Zapruder film shows the presidents head snap back and to the left, thus showing that the headshot must have been fired from the grassy knoll. This is backed up with medical evidence. Witness after witness who saw President Kennedy’s head – from doctors, to federal agents, to trained emergency room nurses, to medical technicians who assisted with the autopsy, to highly trained and specialised neurosurgeons – all said they saw a large wound in the rear portion of the skull. This is a signature wound associated with the exit of a bullet.

There are many different views and ideas supporting the multiple shooter theory. Some say that the shots had to come from the front because Kennedy’s head goes back and to the left. Also, they say that

Texas Theater where Oswald was arrested says that Oswald was at the theater the exact moment Officer Tippit was killed. “The bullet shells from an automatic pistol found at the Tippit killing scene don't even fit Oswald’s only known handgun which was a revolver” (Groden 23). “The doctors who labored in a futile effort to save Kennedy’s life at the Parkland hospital all had stated that in contemporaneous interviews that the wound in his throat had been and entrance wound. Wade and the FBI had concluded that Oswald was directly behind the president and that he alone had fired a weapon in Dealey plaza.” (Lane 17). So if he was directly behind the president how could he create and exit wound in the front of John F. Kennedy’s throat. Also if the

The shots boom in the Texas School Book Depository! President Kennedy was shot twice, once in the throat and then a few seconds later he was shot in the back of the head. Oswald was the killer, the reason he did it may never be known. Although many people believe that there were multiple assassins, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination.

The Warren Commission was later set up to probe the assassination. In its findings, presented on September 24, 1964, the commission concluded that Oswald acted entirely alone, and was not an agent of any broader conspiracy to kill the president. While the Warren Commission's report was deemed credible at the time, and while its conclusions are still acknowledged as the official explanation, the report failed to answer some very perplexing questions about the tragic events of that November day (“Alternative”).

Despite discrepancies such as these, for many years the American public had to be content with the Warren Commission's verdict that "Lee Harvey Oswald had been the sole assassin in the murder of John Kennedy who died as result of three shots being fired from the Texas school depository building." However since the report was published on September 24, 1964, fresh evidence keeps surfacing, as does inconsistencies on the Warren Commissions part.

"The band which at present holds us together, by a very feeble thread, will soon be broken, when anarchy and confusion must ensue." George Washington said this while describing the current government of the United States. With the ratification of Maryland on March 1, 1781, the Articles of Confederation went into affect and all seemed well. Even though the Confederation had many accomplishments, it was hardly an ideal government. Problems began to arise soon following the enactment of the Articles. The Confederation lacked adequate powers to deal with interstate issues, while it lacked ample stature to be of an influence on other nations, making the Confederation unable to negotiate easily. Financial

Third, a mobster by the name of Christian David knew exactly the kind of bullets used. He could have supplied them. Fourth, at least one of the shots must have come from the front. Oswald couldn’t have shot this shot, as he was behind Kennedy at the time.

Hmm. Interesting. We unfortunately have to analyze Dr. Malcolm Perry here because his statements regarding this famous neck wound are all over the place and an awful awful awful MESS! Here it is. On 1-11-78, Perry told the HSCA that “I thought it [the neck wound] looked like an entrance wound because it was so small.” The next year he told researcher Robert Groden that the bootlegged autopsy photos were not as he remembered them to be: his trach was “neater”, and not the “larger, expanded” one seen in the pictures. “When interviewed in 1979, he still maintained that the bullet had entered the President’s throat from the front...” The same year, Perry told Harrison Livingstone: “My whole credibility as a trauma surgeon was at stake...I COULDN’T