As students of history, we are taught to think, study, and work in a scholarly manner. When studying a person or a major event, we are taught to make assertions based on hard, factual information, and stay away from making assertions based purely on speculation, here-say, or opinion. But in certain realms of history this is ignored, and imaginations run wild. Fantasy is made into logic and fact, fact and logic discredited as fantasy, and eventually the story is so twisted that the real logic and facts are soon lost. Such is the case with the study of the November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy assassination. Only in the United States could the assassination of a political figure spawn a whole industry all its own dedicated to “finding out the truth.” Using the word industry is not an overstatement: thousands of articles and essays, dozens of movies and documentaries, hundreds of books, thousands of websites, and even university classes based on the event and the facts and happenings surrounding it. Imagine the amount of time and money invested in the study of the assassination; the technology used to prove and disprove theories. This can make one

A conspiracy would, of course, do the job nicely.1

There are many other theories out there that are pursued by conspiracy theorists. They are worth mentioning for one to look into, but only as a form of leisure or for the mind to ponder. These include: a CIA staged coup d’ etat, LBJ orchestrating the hit, the fatal head shot coming from an accidental shot by the secret service, Vietnamese revenge, J. Edgar Hoover being the key spearhead in the plot, and even Kennedy planning the whole plot himself. Outrageous as some of these may seem, there are people who pursue these angles extensively and claim to have evidence to back up their claims.

What gives this theory the most credibility is the idea of a Warren Commission cover up. If indeed they had found evidence that the Soviets were behind the assassination and made this public, the outcry would force the U.S. to strike back. Inevitably, WWIII would have ensued. The preponderance of this is very frightful: all out nuclear war.

Initially, this conclusion was taken as creed for many Americans. Eighty-seven percent of respondents to a Gallup poll believed Oswald shot Kennedy. Soon though, the incompetence of the report and the hearings and investigation the report was drawn from became public.7 Three major reasons which seem to form a consensus of dissent surrounding the report include: evidence that “the shots came from two directions; their trajectory refutes the speculation that one shot hit both men; and no single marksman could have fired so quickly “ (three shots in a period of less than 4.6 seconds).8

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