The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the most controversial and debated topics in American History. JFK was one of the most beloved presidents of our time. One article of his death wrote, "The day the country cried". Unlike previous presidential assassinations, the JFK assassination is one that is filled the conspiracy theories. Such theories include a Government cover-up, Mafia influence and Cuban President Fidel Castro. The idea of a lone mind, Lee Harvey Oswald, plotting to kill President Kennedy is too simple. In the eyes of scholars there is simply no way that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Even with the growing number of bogus theories, there are a number of logical theories that do hold water. In this paper I will discuss …show more content…
However Castro found out about the plot, apparently through one of the Mafia bosses who was a Cuban sympathizer, Carlos Trafficante, and redirected it back at Kennedy. Another one of the mafia bosses also wanted to get back at Kennedy. Kennedy had won the presidential election with the mafia's help, and still his brother Robert, Attorney General at the time, was publicly prosecuting these same bosses as an effort to put down organized crime. It is believed that Trafficante redirected the Cuban exiles to accompany Oswald in Dallas. The third is the amount of government cover-ups that arose from the assassination. One year earlier Kennedy had made a secret pack with Russia that he would not interfere with the Cuban government. But Kennedy broke this pack by plotting to assassinate Castro. It was believed that if Castro was assassinated then Russia would have retaliated with nuclear weapons. Therefore Kennedy had to be eliminated so that this would not have happened. His death virtually eliminated the threat of Soviet retaliation against the U.S. for his plot to remove Castro using Mafia resources. The murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby plays into this theory that the government was somehow involved. Why would Jack Ruby kill Oswald? I believe that Ruby killed Oswald so that he would not leak to the public that the assassination was a conspiracy. How would the American people take it? Our president was killed by our own
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.
I think that Oswald was part of a bigger conspiracy because no one believes that it was only Oswald that killed JFK because how can you fire a sniper four times in a row. The gun will move each time the gun is fired. But I don’t think it was Oswald because after you just killed someone how can you just be eating lunch as calmly wouldn’t he feel guilty for killing a man like JFK. I think that Oswald didn’t kill him because if he killed someone wouldn’t he try to get away. Honestly it had to more than him or it had to be another large conspiracy and he was apart of it. When he was arrested and was taken to the court I think that the guy that killed was part of the conspiracy with Oswald but he killed so that Oswald wouldn’t tell anyone about
There are tons of conspiracies of the JFK assassination we need to find out what really happened. Who really killed him and had something to do with it we don't know many people could have had something to do with the assassination and setting it up either Oswald killed Kennedy, with or without associate's, or he was set up in advance to take the blame. Was it the umbrella man, was it the mob, was it the government, or was it Lee Harvey Oswald himself? We don’t know, there are so many theories about what really happened.
There are various theories as to how our 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd of 1963. Some say that there were various people involved, while others simply believe that what the government released is true. This paper will investigate the numerous theories, opinions, and official documentation on the assassination of our 35th President, John F. Kennedy.
People believe Cuban Dictator, Fidel Castro plotted to assassinate Kennedy. The conspiracy theory begins with Kennedy being blamed for the CIA’s impatience to eliminate Castro(Cuba and the Kennedy Assassination, n.d.) Kennedy was held responsible for the events of how the Bay of Pigs invasion failed miserably. This would lead to many assassination attempts of Fidel Castro which resulted the same way every time, unsuccessful. According to CNN there were over 600 plotted attempts to kill the Cuban dictator, however each one unsuccessful (Oppmann 2016). This lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which proved to be a success for the Cuban people because they obtained the United States missiles and would learn how to make their own. On the day of Kennedy’s assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was known as the man who committed the action. While investigating, it was found out that Oswald had trips to Cuba which caused people to the conclusion that he was associated with Castro (Pierson 2016). It was also found out that he defected to Cuba in 1959, and would be a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. This would show that he could have been hired as the gunman to do Castro’s dirty work and take the blame. In this theory, Oswald seems to have been brainwashed into following ideas of the Communist Party, and wanted to assassinate the
There is a plethora of conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They range from the incumbent of the former Soviet Union to organized crime.
The Mafia is also a key suspect in this assassination. Especially Carlos Marcello, who was the mob boss in New Orleans – he was deported because of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, President Kennedy’s brother (Sherer April 1991). Robert Kennedy focused much of his time on getting rid of organized crime, and he did a pretty good job. In the Web Site “Who Murdered JFK and Why?” Marcello was quoted saying that President Kennedy was like a dog and Bobby Kennedy was his tail. The dog will keep biting you if you only cut off its tail, but cut off the head and the dog will die, tail and all. I would say that’s a pretty good analogy of what happened. If President Kennedy were to die, then Robert Kennedy wouldn’t be able to keep going after the mob. Another Mafia boss, Santos Trafficante from Miami also made a ‘prediction’ about Kennedy’s death when he said “Kennedy’s not going to make it to the election. He’s going to be hit (http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/9719/jfk.html).” Many major crime bosses
John F. Kennedy was only the fourth president to die by assassination in a nation that was less than 200 years old(Betsy).There are three theories that this essay will explore.Thyat the CIA played a part in planning the assassination another one is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA agent at the time and the theory that Cuba was behind the assassination.In the history books and the knowledge in everybody's head is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone shooter, but in the rest of this essay you`ll see that there are many more possible versions for what happened. But one thing for sure is that JFK died at the hands of somebody.
Theories about Oswald's connection to Cuba vary in extremity, and some of these theories claim Castro was directly involved in JFK's death. As for evidence, Oswald was arrested in 1963 for passing out pro-Castro pamphlets for the New Orleans Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The other primary basis for this theory is Oswald's trip to the Cuban Embassy, around two months before the assassination, where he allegedly had a meltdown because he wasn't granted a
A number of people, prominent people and political leaders have been lost at the hands of assassins. The most tragic incident was the assassination of John F. Kennedy while he was still the sitting president of America. According to George (1), assassination of John F. Kennedy is the most thoroughly investigated murder in human history. In comparison to death of people such as Julius Caesar what classicist still ponder , the two millennium of study of JFK's death has been through an intense scrutiny and a number of technological tools have also been applied to study his murder. It is believed that the curiosity of his death did not end in the 1960s , if so then his death would have faced into the past in a similar manner the deaths of
The Truth Behind the Assassination of JFK Adolf Hitler, once said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it. " There have been many different stories regarding what truly happened on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy meet his untimely demise. For many years, it has been believed that Lee H. Oswald single-handedly executed a plan he concocted to assassinate the thirty-fifth president of the United States of America. However, that story could not be further from the truth. In this paper, I hope to shed some light on what occurred.
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The President was making his rounds across the country, beginning to get ready for the next election season. Around 12:30, Kennedy was shot while riding in a convertible next to his wife. Hours later, he was pronounced dead, Lyndon B. Johnson was now sworn in, and Lee Harvey Oswald was in custody as the shooter. Two days later Oswald was shot at point blank range before he could be transferred and put through a proper trial (November). This is what was reported and seen, expect no one knew for sure Oswald’s motivation or if it was even him, which led to conspiracy theories being made up. The most believed one is that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was behind
Many other spectators captured photographs of the events. The graphic film and images have become the premise of a cornucopia of research and general searches for truth. A question that arises from this quest for truth can be concurred is that, “did President Kennedy fall victim to a conspiracy of his assassination?” One can inquire that, after taking the information in hand that, Lee Harvey Oswald couldn’t possibly have been solely responsible for the murder of President Kennedy, but that he acted in accordance with other conspirators.
Many conspiracy theories have tried to explain who was responsible for Kennedy’s murder and some have cited the involvement of the USSR, FBI, CIA and Cuba among others. The death of Kennedy remains a mystery despite numerous investigations which have since been carried. There have been no conclusive prove that Oswald murdered the president and even if he did, people still do not believe that he acted alone as reported by the Warren Commission.
I think that this paragraph sums up the entire spirit of those who continue to research, write about, and study the John F. Kennedy assassination; it has come to phenomenal proportion over the last 36 years with over 2,000 books written on the subject and one Hollywood movie. The theories range from the bizarre such as retaliation from the aliens, to Elvis, to the official conclusion of the Warren Commission that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. The most common of the conspiracy theories include, Castro, communist, mob, CIA, the North Vietnamese and others. Before we can even start to draw a conclusion on to who was behind the John F. Kennedy assassination we must first