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    the speaker that he testified to the Warren Commission that a shot came from the front and they saw smoke. Members of the FBI questioned President Kennedy's major adviser and told him, he must have been confused. O'Donnell was devastated by the assassination and his concern was for the family. No matter what he said, his President would still

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    Thousands of documents related to JFK’s assassination have been released (-- removed HTML --) Trump recently said he’d release long-classified JFK assassination documents to the public. Now that time is here. Read all about it Approximately 2,800 records, including field reports, cables, and interview summaries, have been released to the public by National Archives. Conversations from the FBI, CIA, and congressional investigators discussing dead ends, exhausted leads, interviews, as

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    JFK Assassination Historical Narrative November 22, 1963 is a day Jacqueline Kennedy will remember forever. Around 11:30 a.m. Jackie and her husband, the president, John F. Kennedy arrived in Dallas, Texas. Jackie was excited to be in Dallas, but she also knew this trip could determine if her husband would be re-elected. At noon, the motorcade headed toward downtown Dallas. Everything was perfect; the people loved Mr. Kennedy. At 12:29, Nellie Conally, the wife of Texas governor, turns to the president

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    On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), was allegedly shot by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald somehow single handedly shot Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, using a Carcano Model 91/38 which is a cheap, military surplus rifle with a telescopic sight. Afterwards, Oswald killed the policeman who had questioned him. When Oswald was finally found and taken to the Dallas Police Station, a large crowd of angry citizens and news teams had amassed. A pugnacious man by the name of Jack Ruby fatally

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    But during the assassination, he was apparently calmly eating lunch in the lunchroom. Did Oswald leave and fire a shot? If so, how did he get to the lunchroom in

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    JFK Assassination On Friday, November 22, 1963, while enroute to the Dallas airport, President John Fitzgearald Kennedy was fatally shot. ABC's newsanchor Walter Cronkite said that it would be "a day that will live in infamy." The reason that that fateful Friday is still talked about is the controversy surrounding the assassination. The official investigators determined that the president was killed by a lone gunman, but every single piece of evidence – from eye witnesses to forensic evidence

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    What Is Jfk Assassination

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    Scheim did a ten-year private investigation and thought that the Mafia killed Kennedy (McAuliffe 55). This is one of the most believed conspiracy about J.F.K's assassination it is that the Mafia was involved because J.F.K's brother, General Robert Kennedy arrested Mafia leaders and J.F.K supported this (Kallen 68). The Mafia is not forgiving. One example of that is when their leader Johnny Roselli told a newspaper

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    known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. By stopping this invasion the US stranded the native rebels trying to kill Fidel Castro. When the US didn't show up to take over cuba all of them were captured and jailed for life. The second suspected killer of JFK is Lyndon Baynes Johnson. LBJ main suspicion of hiring someone to kill the president is for more

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    I believe that Oswald is part of a larger conspiracy. Evidence that supports this theory is when witnesses told CIA agents what they saw, the CIA denies all this saying “No you didn’t see shots coming from the grassy knoll.” This introduces a new idea: Oswald is part of a larger conspiracy. If the government is covering up evidence that Oswald assassinated president Kennedy, then that just means there’s more to it than just this. Also, the remains of Kennedy were disturbed on multiple occasions

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    prove that there was in fact a conspiracy then there is no question that there was only one lone gunman. The Justice Department has experts in many fields to review and look over the case of Kennedy’s Assassination. The Government would not have lied about who killed their leader, after the so called “JFK Act” The Government would be required to release all classified documents and information about the case. After releasing the classified information to the public there was found that there was no further

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