John F Kennedy Jfk Assassination Analysis

John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, TX, on his way to a 10-mile tour. (Stokes, 1979) There are lots of interesting facts about the assassination, but one of the less known is, on the morning of the assassination, Kennedy foreshadowed his own death. “Jackie, if somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?” (Swanson, 2013) Were a few of the last words spoken by the President, surrounded by hundreds of people on his arrival from the night before, he joked about how anyone could have shot him with a rifle from a tall building, and blended in with the crowd. Meanwhile he spoked calmly in

Edgar Hoover. Psychologically, Oswald had always been a loner and a pariah. He had always been attracted to things that would provide enhanced self-esteem, becoming a Marine, learning Russian, defecting to Russia. But it was the attacks on his psyche in childhood, his father dying, his experiencing only sporadic and detached associations with his mother’s boyfriends, his relationship with an angry, unstable and domineering mother – that helped turn Oswald’s psyche in adulthood into an embittered, angry misfit. Psychologists believe that a child who lives an isolated life, as Oswald did, and who is brought up by a mother who refused to subordinate herself to her children’s welfare, often sees the world as an adversary. (Ayton, 1995) A fatherless upbringing and lack of a meaningful male role-model had a crucial effect on the young Oswald molding and forming a personality which hid some of his darkest impulses. The young Oswald, whose real father died shortly before his birth, had only shallow relationships with his mother’s boyfriends. And lastly, his strong desire to be recognized as an important person provoked him to kill President Kennedy. He was an arrogant person, who would have inevitably committed a violent act, even if it was not the assassination of the President of the United States of