John F Kennedy Justified Jfk Assassination Research Paper

On November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald. To this day his death still draws conspiracies as to who killed him, but the official verdict is Lee Harvey Oswald. No one knows why he was killed, but his death shook americans all over. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas as the car he was in passed the Texas School Book Depository. The assassination John F. Kennedy was not justified because he was a father and he was trying to unite America together in the times of segregation. Even though he wasn’t the best president, for example the Cuban Missile Crisis was partly his fault, his death was still not justified. John F. Kennedy was a father and had a family just like you or me. At his funeral there was a “salute to his father given by little John F. Kennedy Jr. (whose third birthday it was), daughter Caroline kneeling next to her mother at the president's bier, and the extraordinary grace and dignity shown by Jacqueline Kennedy(John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum).” His children had noticeably grown up under a great role model, and they wouldn’t have the father figure in their life, and

Kennedy was trying to be bring America together during times of segregation. “He appointed unprecedented numbers of African Americans to high-level positions in the administration and strengthened the Civil Rights Commission (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum).” During this time, blacks were being harshly segregated against and had fewer rights than whites and were second citizens to them. JFK did what no other president had really done before. “Across the nation, more than 70 percent of African Americans voted for Kennedy(John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum).” African-Americans liked him and thought he would do something to help them gain equality. Kennedy may have not done as much as he could to have helped the African-American community, but he believed in equality for all and helped