How did this happen? How could such a popular president be gunned down on an American street? The American people wanted answers. The country wanted information and they sought it in earnest. Many tears were shed and the American people were overwhelmed by the many different theories behind the assassination. Who or what had really killed Kennedy? Was it really a radical extremist who had murdered the President? Or had someone else closer to home been at fault?

With the many conspiracies around the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) it is hard to sort through them all. There are three that have received the most media coverage and are the most believable. They are: the single-shooter theory, the two-shooter theory, and the government conspiracy or multiple shooter theory.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was one of nine children born to Joseph and Rose Kennedy. He was a graduate of Harvard University and was ranked in the top 15 percentile. His family is heavily routed in the Catholic Church, and JFK was the first Catholic president. He was very youthful at only 43 years old. He brought with him to the Whitehouse a young wife Jacqueline and two children. This can all be found in a Website devoted to the history of John F. Kennedy (Rayfield).

Though the United States Warren Commission Report supports the single-shooter theory, the discrepancies that are presented in the report are a cause for concern. The American public tends to still believe that Oswald was a lone assassin. There is a theory that takes into account that the evidence points to a possibility of more than one shooter.

Though even with the eyewitnesses saying that they heard shots from two different directions there is still some question as to who had the gun or if there were other possible shooters besides Oswald the “man on the hill” and the “man in the bushes”? This theory is easy to expand on and there are many other people that could have had a part in this plot. Along with these suspicious characters there were a couple of hobos that escaped on the train and also a man that stood on top of the grassy knoll who claimed that he was another undercover C.I.A. agent (Committee 302). Though the police never caught any of these men they are thought to be conspirators as well.

There was so much scandal and hostility behind the Presidency it is no wonder that Kennedy had many enemies. JFK was in danger but from whom no one knew. The assassination put an end to a very controversial presidency, but who is to say how and why the trigger was pulled.

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