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    The Kennedy Assassination President John F. Kennedy was travelling along a predetermined motorcade route in Dallas, Texas when he was fatally shot, receiving wounds to the chest, back, and head. Shortly after the assassination, Dallas police arrested former U.S. Marine Corps Private Lee Harvey Oswald. On November 24 of the same year, Jack Ruby, owner of a Dallas nightclub, shot Oswald. Less than a year after the two murders, on September 24, 1964, the Warren Commission

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    proves Lee Harvey Oswald’s guilt or innocence of the assassination of President Kennedy (JFK,) but there is much evidence that points towards his innocence, or the fact that he was not the lone gunman to kill Kennedy. Being established a week after the assassination, on the 29th of November 1963, the Warren Commission, after a year long investigation and a singular report, concluded that Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy, but there are many sources that attest to the faults

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    Kennedy’s assassination is one of America’s most fascinating and infamous conspiracies. Though we still do not know who is actually responsible, evidence points towards the communistic Cubans as being the killers of our nation’s young president. Even Lyndon B. Johnson, the President inaugurated after Kennedy’s death said, “I’ll tell you something about Kennedy’s murder that will rock you…Kennedy was trying to get Castro, but Castro got to him first.” President Kennedy’s mysterious assassination can be

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    were not born, for one reason. The assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy transpired in Dallas, Texas. His assassination became a topic of controversy as the idea of a lone sniper committing the act was hard to accept. The assassin would go on to die a few days later. Media outlets around the nation were in shock. The local Metroplex stations panicked like everyone else. As a native Texan, correction native Dallasite, I view the Kennedy assassination differently than most Americans. I

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    Language of Argument:Kennedy Assassination Both myself and my friend Kyle are both extremely interested in conspiracy theories for different reasons, we agree on many theories about somme “conspiracies” which we both attribute to reality that most people are full of lack of a better term, shit. There is one specific conspiracy that we are unable to see eye to eye on however and that is of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, son of business magnate Joe Kennedy Sr. and one of the most enigmatic

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    The Assassination of John F. Kennedy “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” President Kennedy stated in his commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963. John F. Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 to his assassination in November 1963. There are numerous conspiracy theories involving Kennedy’s assassination

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    The Assassination of John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza.[1] Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while he was riding with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally 's wife, Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission from November 1963 to September 1964

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    The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Within six seconds on November 22, 1963, three shots were fired. Seated in an open limousine, President John F. Kennedy was killed by two of the shots, which also wounded Texas Governor John Connally. Kennedy was the youngest president to be elected and a man people either loved or hated. There was a fascination about this young First Family too, a family which created an image that many American families yearned for. As a result, the assassination came

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    Assassination of John F. Kennedy

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    The John F. Kennedy assassination is believed to be one of the most controversial and debated topics in American History. JFK was one of the most beloved presidents of our time. Other assassinations of presidents didn’t have as many Conspiracy theories compared to the JFK assassination on November 22nd, 1963. Some of the theories include a Government cover-up, Mafia influence, and Cuban President Fidel Castro (Stern). The assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, raised many questions that

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    The assassination of the 35th President John F. Kennedy has solicited more curiosity than any other event during the twentieth century. The assassination of president Kennedy has become one of the most researched events in U.S history and is still thriving today. There have been numerous books, stories, films, research, and much more conducted on and around the events of the assassination. The horrific event was witnessed by hundreds of bystanders whom all qualified as the first people to have been

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