John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the youngest man to be elected as president, was the 35th president of the United States from 1961 to 1663. His life was taken from him far too soon, on November 12, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated president Kennedy because he had an malicious obsession for recognition. November 22, 1693 started as an ordinary day for the citizens of the United States. President Kennedy was in Dallas that day to campaign for the upcoming election the next year. A mass of eager people filled the streets for a chance to get a glimpse of the Kennedys. The most important turn the car made that day was the one off Main Street at Dealey Plaza. Nearby that crowd and street was a man named Lee Harvey Oswald. Around 12:30 …show more content…
Prior to the assassination of President Kennedy, Oswald purchased a “. . . used, single-shot Italian, bolt-action carbine . . .” for around twelve dollars (Diamond). As a child, his biological father died before he was born and his mother regularly left him with abusive babysitters. He was sent off to boarding school for a time, but was eventually sent back to his mother; he continued to feel unwanted and abandoned. When he turned seventeen he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, and was trained as a sharpshooter. Eventually he got into quite a bit of trouble and spent time in the brig. Oswald, then voluntarily left the service and moved to the Soviet Union. While he was there, he married a Russian woman named Marina. Three years came and went and he was still looking for something he couldn’t find and ended up moving back to the U.S. He had narcissistic traits and an arrogant attitude towards others, including his wife that he supposedly emotionally and physically abused. Oswald sought-after a way to give his life a sense of meaning and purpose by doing something that would go down in infamy. He was going to kill president