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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 could not be answered and still have not too been answered.
Before John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, he and his political advisors were feeling skeptical about the upcoming election in 1964. This is because of Kennedy and his …show more content…

It is believed that if he wasn’t wearing the brace, he would have survived the shot to the neck which was harmless because the brace he was wearing kept him upright. Without the brace he would of fell forward and avoided the fatal blow to the head (Stern).
Soon after the murder, police recovered the murder weapon. It was a mail-order rifle belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald, who was an employee of the Texas School Book Depository (Sifakis). According to Eyewitnesses accounts, people believed that the shots came from the 6th Floor of the Depository. The Police recovered the weapon next to the window where the people claimed to see the shots come from. Oswald was a former marine who was a supporter of Fidel Castro, The Cuban communist president at the time (Stern). An elevator operator who had taken Oswald to the top of the building gave the Dallas police department his physical description. Forty-five minutes after Oswald shot and killed the president, Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit, attempted to arrest a man fitting Oswald's description, was shot four times by Oswald and died instantly (Wunsch). Oswald was later arrested in a downtown Dallas Movie Theater and was charged with the Assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of a Dallas Police Officer (Stern). But Oswald claimed that he had not committed either of the crimes. Ever since there has been disputes wondering if Oswald acted alone in the murder or if

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