Jfk Assassination Research Paper

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Kennedy’s Assassination

There are a broad range of moments in history that plague the history books. Moments that excite, moments that scare, and moments of great despair. Days such as November 22, 1963; one of the most memorable, controversial day in U.S. history. It stains the history books as the day our 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated.

Aboard an Air Force One, JFK arrives at the Dallas Love Field at 11:37 a.m. in Texas for his campaign ride, unaware of his soon to be, untimely demise (Jfklibrary). He is accompanied by his wife, Jacqueline Lee who rarely attends his campaign projects, but decided to come support him on that day (Jfklibrary). About twenty minutes after landing, Kennedy prepares for his ride through …show more content…

JFK is struck in the neck by the first bullet and shortly after, is hit in the head by the other. Some say three shots were fired but one missed, hitting the ground of the plaza (Youtube.com). Governor John Connally was also fatally wounded in the incident (Cnn.com). His assailant, Lee Harvey Oswald, shoots him from the sixth floor Texas School Book Depository Building (History.com). His weapon of choice being a 6.5 mm Italian Carcano bolt-action rifle blows the side of his head open, exposing his brain and dispersing it, blood, and pieces of skull onto the back of the car (Aarp.com). JFK is pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas Parkland Hospital (History.com). Oswald then flees the scene leaving behind the …show more content…

Author Vincent Bugliosi states, “there are 42 groups, 82 assassins and 214 people of being involved in the assassination." (Cnn.com). The most popular conspiracy is the Grassy Knoll; suggesting that a gunman on the ground of the Dealey Plaza shot and killed president Kennedy (jfkfacts.org). One conspiracy suggest that the CIA killed Kennedy because they were angry about the Bay of Pigs (Mirror.co.uk). Others suggest the mob did it (Cnn.com). Another ridiculous suggestion says that Lyndon Johnson was behind the killing (Mirror.co.uk). There is even a suggestion that Mrs. Kennedy herself killed JFK (Mirror.co.uk). How? Who