A Summary Of Oswald's Assassination

Oswald claimed that he was on the first (i.e. ground) floor of the TSBD during the shooting. The official investigators, however, claimed that he was on the sixth floor. There is some evidence for both locations:

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.

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.

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.

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

This investigation will answer the question: To what extent did Lee Harvey Oswald’s history predispose him to kill John F. Kennedy? To determine the extent to which childhood and previous jobs influenced Oswald to assassinate the President, the scope of the investigation will focus on Lee Harvey Oswald and his relationships with political groups. It will also examine Oswald’s youth and the actions of previous life events. Only secondary sources about the assassination will be used in this examination.

It has been fifty-two years since that fatal day in Dallas, Texas where the president of the United States of America was killed; and since that day many conspiracies have come to light. Out of all of the conspiracies that surround the assassination one that has always been on the forefront was the magic bullet theory. This theory came about due to the Warren Commission saying “Oswald killed Kennedy from the sixth-floor book depository's eastern window …. the bullet ... entered the back of the President's neck, transited the neck, [and] entered Connally's body” (Wrone). The Warren Commission also attests to the there being three shots

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

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.

On November 22nd, 1963, President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was shot and killed in a motorcade running through Dealy Plaza, in Dallas, Texas. Shortly after, a man by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged with the murder of President Kennedy. Over the years there has been much controversy over if Lee Harvey Oswald was in fact, the only man involved in the assassination of JFK. The assassination is still a topic of debate to this day and has spawned many conspiracy theories. At the time, there was little persuasive evidence to prove that Oswald was involved in any sort of conspiracy to assassinate the president, but as time went on people began to grow suspicious of certain things. In 1966,

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.

Many people, in the course of their life, will have a feeling of uncertainty and trust. In the book Before and After, the parents of Jacob (Ben and Carolyn Reiser) begin to get the feeling of uncertainty and lose trust in their son, Jacob. Ben and Carolyn Reiser first go into denial (as do many people when they are unsure whether something is true or a lie) when they heard the suspicion of their son being accused of killing his girlfriend. Plenty of people, including me, know the feeling of being lied to or thinking a close person is untrustworthy. I can relate the feeling Ben and Carolyn Reiser have toward their son, in dealing with accusing someone of being untrustworthy.

It was said that three bullets were fired that day, the first one going unnoticed, the second passing through the back of kenney’s upper chest and making its way into Connally’s back right shoulder (The Other Victims of the JFK Assassination). The final and fatal bullet’s path was straight through the right side of President John F. Kennedy’s head, instantly killing him. Kennedy’s skull was shattered, the right side of his head was missing, some recall having bits of the president’s brain and skull fragments on them. The First Lady turned in her seat, reaching out to the rear of the convertible to grab what was part of her husband’s head. After the third bullet was fired and Kennedy was struck, the driver of the Lincoln convertible sped down Elm street as a secret service agent struggled to climb in. President Kennedy and Governor Connally were rushed to the nearest hospital where they were examined and operated on. Sadly President Kennedy was pronounced dead upon arriving, luckily for Connally his life was

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

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