Monica Frackowiak Rhetoric 102-001 Fouts Paper #3 John Kennedy Assassination conspiracy theories John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The most controversial events to occur. JFK’s assassination spurred plenty of assumptions and conspiracies on what occurred. Years have passed, and individuals are still trying to put together the information on who actually killed John. F Kennedy. Who killed Kennedy? Was Lee Harvey Oswald a lone gunman? Were shots fired from the “grassy knoll”? Did the government try covering up what actually occurred? There are more than a few popular conspiracy theories on how JFK was assassinated, speculations of who maybe was involved. Although the warren commission came to the conclusion that Oswald …show more content…
The suspect who killed Kennedy was Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald shot Kennedy from the sixth floor where he worked, located at the Texas school book depository using a rifle. Kennedy died shortly after he arrived at the hospital. Mark Hodge, author of The Sun, writes that the explosive surgeons sketch which supports the theory that President Kennedy was shot by two men. Dr Robert McClelland was with Kennedy when he was shot. Doctor McClelland drew out a sketch of Kennedy's right side of his head, and explained how the fired shots entered and exited. Supposedly the shots were fired by Harvey Lee Oswald; on the other hand the surgeon explained how there were two different wound entrances.”One low in the neck and one of his hair-which crucially came from different directions, suggesting there were two shooters”. The surgeon explains the wound to the back of Kennedy's head was from the bullet exiting not from it entering. Doctor McClelland questioned the Warren Commission's conclusion on Kennedy's murder, that Oswald was a lone gunman. Dr McClelland's sketch of Kennedy's wounds provides the evidence that there was a second …show more content…
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