By the executive order of President Ms. Plunkett, this commission has been created through the initiative known as “Genius Hour”, in order to investigate the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963. This report will outline the investigation and the findings or the Simon Daniel committee. It will make reference to the government reports known as the “Warren Commission”, the “Select Committee Report”, as well as information found online from various sources surrounding the assassination.
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was fatally shot. Less than an hour later, Patrolman J. D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer, was fatally shot. Just over 35 minutes later, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on suspect of both
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Jack Ruby is the man who on the day following the assassination fatally shot Lee H. Oswald. The clear and obvious motive that is assumed, and that would be assumed had it been someone else who shot Oswald, was that Ruby was a left-wing pro-Castro socialist who was just so horribly distressed by the death of JFK that he took the law into his own hands and sought vengeance. However, those who thought that would be terribly wrong. Jack Ruby was a Dallas night club owner, as well as having many other business ventures. He had many ties to organized crime and was known to have friends in the Dallas Police Force, who likely helped in his release multiple times in his mile long criminal record, with most of those crimes being for liquor licence violations and other club ventures. He was also known for having ties to the prostitution and narcotics industries Jack Ruby being the one to kill Oswald is extremely ironic. The situation would have made more sense if it was Ruby who killed JFK, and Oswald the socialist sympathizer killing …show more content…
Before Kennedy became president, the CIA had been acting largely unchecked, as their own ruling entity separate from elected officials. Once JFK came to power significant changes to how the CIA were allowed to operate changed. There is clear cut evidence to support the statement that JFK and CIA were not on good terms. In fact, JFK was once quoted by the New York Times saying he wanted “to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds”, following the failed Bay of Pigs operation. There was also the fact that while the CIA had been working for years to overthrow foreign leaders in places like Iran and Guatemala, Kennedy seemed to be purposely undermining what the CIA were doing by going out a taking a diplomatic standpoint. Compared to Oswald, the CIA has significantly more motive for killing John F.