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JFK

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is known for many things throughout his life. From becoming the youngest president at the age of 43 to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. However, the biggest thing that sticks out during his short life is that he was assassinated. What makes his assassination so interesting to people is the fact that there are so many unanswered questions. Nobody knows exactly what happened in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. There are many ideas of what took place that day as told by the government, and possible theories and cover up, but the effect of Kennedy’s death and his legacy will live on in the minds of the people forever. In this paper I will focus on the events of his last day, the persons involved in the assassination, as well as on some conspiracy theories and the impact President John F. Kennedy's assassination had on the U.S.

On November 22, 1963 Air Force One landed at Love Field in Dallas Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy and the Connallys met the people when they arrived and shook their hands. Then it became time to begin the motorcade. It would be lead by four motorcycle policemen, then a car with Dallas police force, next the lead car with the chief of police, sheriff, and a Secret Service agent. After


The Warren Commission was named as the group of people who would investigate the assassination of the president. They spent ten months investigating and presented almost a nine hundred page report called the Warren Report. The Warren report stated “Only three shots had been fired at President Kennedy and Governor Connally, all of them from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository; Oswald killed both the president and Officer Tippit; Jack Ruby had never known either Tippit or Oswald; and no one in the Dallas Police Department had helped Ruby kill Oswald” (Netzley, 71-2). The findings by the Warren Commission were then put into a vault at the National Archives and ordered to be sealed for 75 years by President Johnson. The Commission also ignored testimony that did not go along with what they believed. Many people were not even interviewed because they said that they had seen another gunman or heard gun shots come from a grassy knoll. The Warren Commission also went with the Bethesda Naval Hospital autopsy, which many believed contained errors, but said that the president was shot from the back. Instead of the Parkland Hospital report, which stated that, the president had been shot from the front. Another thing was the single-bullet theory, that stated “the first bullet hit the president in his upper back and came out through his throat It then went into the governor’s back, came out his chest, passed through his wrist, and ended up in his thigh”(Netzley, 75). This might have happened, but the likely hood due to all the different places one bullet would have to go, and position that both men would have to be in is questionable. Many people also believe that there was another person involved in the assassination of JFK. This is because of video of the shooting that was released to the public later and shows that the president’s head moves back when he was hit with the fatal shot to the head. For his head to move in this motion the only possible conclusion is that he was also shot from the front. This would mean that most likely there was a conspiracy to kill the president, because Oswald was in a building behind Kennedy and his shots hit him in the rear of his body. Further reasons to believe that the Warren Commission was wrong in their findings is because of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. They investigated the Warren findings, interviewed witnesses, and reviewed many documents. They found that based on

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