Conspiracy Essay: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy

Sophia Gatta

Mrs. Ryan

H US History 2 - Period 8

13 March, 2023

JFK Conspiracy Essay On November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated while riding in the Presidential Limousine during a motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Although JFK’s assassination was almost 60 years ago, it is still known as the greatest American murder mystery to this day. The unexpected assassination of the 35th President had a very large impact on the American people and over the course of 6 decades, various theories and opinions have been formed over who was really responsible for JFK’s death. Though there are multiple theories connected to who was responsible for assassination, there is only 1 conspiracy that I believe to

Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson put together the Warren Commission. Around a year after JFK’s death, the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy had been killed by the lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, who fired three shots at Kennedy. However, as more people looked into the official findings of the Warren Commission, the legitimacy of it began to be questioned by conspirators. Statements weren’t adding up and conspirators believed that the true information was being withheld or had even been destroyed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Conspirators argue that the CIA’s classification of a large number of records relating to the killings suggest that the organization may have been involved in a cover-up. Also, some people believe that the CIA was engaged in modifying or destroying evidence that was crucial to the assassination. According to Jill Kauffman, “ … there was a great deal of evidence that a second gunman had fired at Kennedy. They accused the Warren Commission and representatives of government agencies, such as the CIA that testified before it, of having covered up any evidence that contradicted the theory that there had been only one gunman” (Kauffman). The CIA had motives for withholding information including all the firings that Kennedy ordered within the CIA that came as a result of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. The theory states that CIA officials were in fact directly involved in planning and carrying out the assassination. I also believe that the Warren Commission was biased due to the fact that “Many of the officials that were involved in the murder of the President were also on the Warren Commission. They could have easily tampered with and destroyed evidence that would have proven that the CIA killed Kennedy. They would have been able to make up their own story as to how Kennedy was assassinated” (Brock). The Central Intelligence Agency had many connections to the Warren