John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation from November 1963 to September 1964 by the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated Kennedy.
A conspiracy theory is described as “a belief that some covert but influential organization is responsible for an unexplained event.”
The dawn of the conspiracy era was brought on by the distrust in American Government. Although the Commission's conclusions were
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The Beatles released their album ‘With The Beatles’ on the same day as Kennedy was shot. Beatle literature contains a long tradition of linking the aftermath of the shooting to what helped The Beatles breakthrough into America. The uplifting songs of The Beatles helped lift America out of its gloom following the assassination. “The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock ’n’ roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.”- Bob Spitz The Beatles: The Biography. In the late 70’s the ‘Dead Kennedys’ formed and became a part of American hardcore punk scene, their name is obviously in reference to the Kennedy assassinations. Lead singer Jello Biafra said that their name was not to shock or offend but to raise awareness to what he saw as the end of the American Dream. More recently Lana Del Rey’s 2012 song ‘National Anthem’ centers on the theme of the JFK assassination, the opening is black and white and shows LDR posing as Marilyn Monroe during her 1962 performance of “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to Kennedy. As the song starts you see LDR assuming the role of Jacqueline Kennedy and the President portrayed by rapper ASAP Rocky. The video moves through the couple’s seemingly lavish and picture- perfect lifestyle, ending with a re-enactment of Abraham Zapruder’s famous home video of the assassination. In the video the camera focus’s on Jacqueline Kennedy’s perspective and the pain she is