JFK Assisination theories

Most people who were alive at the time remember exactly where they were on the fateful day of November 22, 1963. On that day President John F. Kennedy arrived in Dallas to a crowd of excited people lining the streets, when suddenly, several shots rang out and the thirty-fifth President of the United States was assassinated. The United States mourned the death of its young and inspiring President.

It has now been nearly forty years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy and many people are still uncertain as to who is actually responsible for his assassination. It was officially concluded at the Warren Commission that Lee Harvey Oswald was a crazed, lone gunman, who shot the President three times, with no ties to central intelligence. Through the years, however, hundreds of conspiracy theories have developed, and with good reason. Many had grounds to kill the former President, including the CIA, the mafia, political extremists, and even JFK’s vice-president Lyndon Johnson. By investigating some of their possible motives, it is actually hard to believe a conspiracy didn’t take place in Dallas.

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Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of President Kennedy. Just two days after the assassination he collapsed before the television cameras, the whole world watching live, shot by Jack Ruby, a gangster and nightclub owner. Ruby somehow snuck past tight security and several police in order to reach Oswald, so it was speculated that Ruby’s assassination of Oswald was arranged. Ruby had links to both the mafia and the CIA, but the Warren Report concluded he too acted alone.

Kennedy’s short reign was controversial in itself. JFK was President in a time when racism and class antagonisms were still very rampant in the United States, more so than today. Many right-wing activists and conservatives detested Kennedy for his liberal civil rights and anti-Vietnam policies, just to name a few. Kennedy did not want the Vietnam conflict to carry out into a long war, while many conservatives as well as many in the government, such as Johnson, supported the war against communism. Many conservatives also felt Kennedy was “too easy” on communism, especially after he took responsibility for “The Bay of Pigs” in Cuba.

The mafia also had reason to conspire against Kennedy. The Kennedy family had associations with the mafia during his election in which they helped him gain votes in Chicago, and JFK also had an affair with a woman by the name of Judith Exner, who was also a mistress to Chicago crime boss Giancana. Both John Kennedy and his brother Robert, then Attorney General, wanted to see and end to organized crime. Mob bosses of the 1950’s and 60’s, such as Giancana of Chicago and Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, had ties with the CIA as well as many police units.

Lastly, there was Kennedy’s Vice-President, Lyndon Baines Johnson. He was obviously one of the men who gained the most from Kennedy’s death- he took his place as President. It was well known in the

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