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John F. Kennedy’s Assassination

Introduction John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald is said to be Kennedy’s assassin although it’s rumored that William Greer, who was driving the limousine the president was in, is who killed the president. No one knows who exactly why Kennedy was assassinated.
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President Kennedy was scheduled to deliver a speech in Dallas at a luncheon. His wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, went with him although she rarely traveled with him. Governor Connally and his wife were already sitting in the limousine and they were just waiting for the Kennedy’s to get in. The Kennedy’s sat behind the governor and his wife. It was getting sunny outside so the driver took the top …show more content…

As they were passing the Texas School Book Depository, all of a sudden gun shots were being fired. JFK was shot in the neck and in the head. His skull blew off and he leaned towards his wife after being shot in the head. Governor Connally was also shot, although he was shot in the chest, he still managed to survive. Lee Harvey Oswald was found responsible for his death.

Single Bullet Theory Some people believe in the “single-bullet theory” Which is a theory that says that the same bullet that wounded the governor also killed the president. Although this could be possible, the president was also shot in the neck so I couldn’t have been just one bullet. The evidence they have backs up this theory but it doesn’t explain the bullet the president got in his neck.
Who Killed The President? Lee Harvey Oswald is the person held responsible for assassinating the president. After Oswald was arrested, he was being transferred between prison facilities, he got shot. Jack Ruby shot Oswald and it was live on television. Oswald ended up dying 2 hours later at the same hospital that president Kennedy was taken to. Oswald was a former Navy Seal. Oswald worked in the Texas School Depository and supposedly that’s where the president was shot

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