JFK Assassination Case Study

One famous case that struck America was the assassination of John F. Kennedy, also known as JFK. John F. Kennedy was the 35th US President until he was murdered in Dallas, Texas, USA on 22nd November 1963 by a rifle. The prime suspect, in this case, was Lee Harvey Oswald as evidence was pointing towards him that he committed the crime.

The evidence that was used to convict Lee Harvey Oswald was a rifle which was used to assassinate JFK. Warren Commission had believed that Oswald had purchased a rifle with the name as “A. Hidell” which then led to being an alias that Oswald used, and that the postage address used was sent to a post office box rented by him. Information had been found that Oswald had signed documents to purchase the rifle and

Dr. Vincent C. Guinn “Claimed that each individual bullet was chemically unique.” (The Conversation, 2017) and stated that 2 bullets were fired which had hit John F. Kennedy and Governor John Connally by Oswald. But in the late 1980’s Guinn’s theory was challenged by the FBI Agents saying that bullets were indistinguishable if they were from the same manufactured batch. In 2004 a team came together to test if Guinn’s theory was correct and if not they would test that the fragments would match the fragments from the bullets in the JFK case. For their experiment they tested 30 bullets, all but 1 match. The 1 that didn’t match had then been match with fragments from the assassination investigation. Which led them to believe that more than 2 bullets could of been used. The Conversation (2016) states that “Given the congressional conclusion that there had been four shots, it remains possible that Oswald was not the only shooter who hit the president – and that Oswald may not have fired the fatal shot”. Therefore this shows that there have may of been more than one shooter but the rifle they had found confirmed that Oswald was a

Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit. On November 24th Oswald was being transported to the Dallas police to a more secure jail, around him was the press, live cameras and a big crowd. When Oswald was walking into the room, Ruby Jack emerged from the crowd and shot Lee Harvey Oswald with a revolver. His motive for this action was that he was angry because of the death of Kennedy, it was said that he was also apart of organised crime and was charged with first-degree murder. “Ruby denied the allegation and pleaded innocent on the grounds that his great grief over Kennedy’s murder had caused him to suffer “psychomotor epilepsy” and shoot Oswald unconsciously” (History, 2009). But in January 1967 Ruby died of lung cancer which then Warren Commission had said that both men were not apart of the bigger conspiracy theory in 1964. But many conspiracy theories still surrounded the case involving Kennedy’s