Aside from the Single Bullet Theory, the Warren Commission also declared that Lee Harvey Oswald conducted the assassination alone. Shortly after the assassination, some witnesses on Elm Street as well as the employees of the Texas School Book Depository informed the police officers on the site that they thought the short came from the sixth floor of the building. The police soon found a rifle and three bullet shells in one of the rooms on this floor. One witness, Howard Brennan, even provided the police officers with a description of who he thought the assassin was. According to Brennan, the man he described held a rifle out of a corner window on the sixth floor of the building around the time the assassination occurred. The police officers
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
It showed that he did not have on his face but his hands, (“Oswald’s Rifle and Paraffin Tests”). Oswald did not have any the gun’s residue on his cheek. This test showed that he had handled the bullets, but did not look down the scope to fire the weapon. Instead, someone else could have been up there with Oswald which could be the one who shot the president. This would explain why Oswald did not have any of the gun residue on his cheek. Due to an inaccurate gun, Oswald could not have it his mark. A quote from Oswald’s Rifle and Paraffin Tests stated that, “The experts from the US Army and the FBI who had tested the rifle discovered that it is actually not usable in its original state” (“Oswald’s Rifle and Paraffin Tests”). The quote above is stating that it would be extremely hard to get a good shot with this rifle.What it could tell us then is that Oswald is the first to shoot, but his gun was inaccurate, which would cause the other suspects to make up due to Oswald only hitting the chest of JFK. That would clearly state how and why there are other shooters and most likely at the Grassy Knoll. The
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.
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
The assassination of John F. Kennedy is said to be, as from the Warren report, a murder. The Warren report states that a man, Lee Harvey Oswald, fired 3 shots from the 6th floor of the Texas Book State Depository building. One missed the President’s motorcade completely; another hit President Kennedy in the neck, and the last hit him in the head, which was later said after an autopsy, to be the cause of death.
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.
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
For nearly five decades, historians have debated over whether or not the John F. Kennedy assassination was from a lone gunman or as part of a bigger conspiracy cover-up. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot as he paraded through Dallas, Texas. That same afternoon, Dallas police had arrested their suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald, an itinerant ex-U.S. marine and self-described Marxist-Leninist, previously lived in the Soviet Union prior to his move back to the United States. However, within days of his arrest, Oswald was dead. Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby on national television in the basement of a Dallas police station. Historians, through the years, have stated that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and for himself, while others have maintained that Kennedy was killed as part of a wider cover-up. The Warren Commission Report was established by Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy’s successor, to further investigate Kennedy’s assassination. After nearly a yearlong investigation, the commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded that alleged gunman Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating America’s 35th President, and that there was no conspiracy, either domestic or international, involved. Despite its seemingly firm conclusions, the report proved controversial and failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event. Historians have held dramatically different views about the
Several eye–witnesses in Dealey Plaza saw a gunman on the sixth floor. Some of their descriptions fitted Oswald, but others described someone who was unlike Oswald. Howard Brennan, the main witness against Oswald, was not very reliable: he described features he was unlikely to have seen, and he failed to pick out Oswald when confronted by him at an identification parade (‘line–up’ in US English) a few hours after the assassination.
The official account is that from the sixth floor of a book depository, Oswald fired three
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.
After the long months of investigations, the warren commission report didn’t give us any compelling explanations to the sequence of the shooting. It instead showed us three different explanations. In each explanation, One of the three bullets fatally Striking the president in the head, another hit and went through Kennedy before striking Governor Connally Seriously wounding him, and the last shot Oswald fired...well, the Warren commission Report wouldn’t say where the third bullet went or even when Oswald fired it.
Yes, because some people saw that Lee Harvey was seeing him on the sixth floor when John F. Kennedy was shot. The police evidence suggested that Lee Harvey Oswald was not part of the conspiracy, but assassinated the president was his own initiative. If they have evidence that shows there were more people that involved with President Kennedy’s assassination then why didn’t they go find the other two that was involved with it, it could have solved the whole entire case instead of having it a mystery for 50 years.