Salt Lake Community College
The Assassination John F. Kennedy
By Andrew Williams
Chris Bertram
Criminal Justice 1340 - 501
April 15th 2018
The Assassination John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. This was the headline in every newspaper and tabloid, November 23rd 1963, the day following Kennedy’s assassination.
John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29th 1917 to one of America’s wealthiest families. John F. Kennedy was successful in almost everything he did. He went to Harvard, where he majored in government and international relation. In 1941 Kennedy joined the U.S. Navy
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There is a widespread speculation that John F. Kennedy's assassination was a conspiracy. In fact there are so many conspiracy theories that the government’s almost sounds convincing “ – lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald fired three bullets from a nearby building, striking Mr. Kennedy and Gov. John B. Connally Jr. of Texas” (Victor, 2017). The government liked this theory so much “government investigators released an 888-page report on the assassination, forming the official explanation of the events. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president” (Victor, 2017). It placed no blame on other suggested theories like the Chicago Mafia, the New Orleans Mafia, The CIA, or the Cuba and Soviet …show more content…
At the time of Kennedy's assassination it was theorized that the CIA and the Mafia were working together to oust the Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. People also believe that at that time the Mafia wanted to oust John F Kennedy because CIA agents and members of the Mafia were angry at Kennedy's appeasement policies toward communist Cuba and the Soviet Union. Working together in the sense that the CIA planted Oswald and the Mafia did all the dirty work. It was in fact the CIA and Mafia who killed JFK. Which sounds somewhat more believable then the governments “magic bullet” theory that states, “a single bullet — derisively referred to as a “magic bullet” — struck both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Connally” (Victor,