John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Death Conspiration
Autor: Silennz • February 25, 2014 • Essay • 815 Words (4 Pages) • 1,043 Views
It has been 50 years now. Five decades of doubts and the files now released haven’t convinced most people of the only guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald in President John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination. How to admit the abrupt end of a living myth by a lone gunman armed with a 20$ rifle? Many still don’t agree with the official record and a lot of conspiracy theories surround JFK’s death.
The 35th president of the United States has been murdered on November the 22 of 1963. That morning in Dallas, the youthful president of the United States and his wife, Jacqueline, rode in an open limousine through the heart of the city.
It was so warm that the Secret Service had removed the Plexiglas bubble top from the presidential vehicle, so there was nothing to separate the couple from the cheering crowds.
They seemed relaxed and smiling until suddenly three shots were fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository on Dealey Plaza.
The first bullet missed. The second struck the president in the throat. And the third blasted through his head.
Few hours after the shooting, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in a cinema for killing a policeman. The murder weapon found in the Dealey Plaza belonged to this man. Two days after, while transferred to the Dallas jail, Oswald was in his turn killed by a night club owner.
This is the official record of JFK death but many people still don’t agree with it. They think that the committee in charge of the case didn’t make a good job and that, because of their lack of time, they accepted the FBI conclusions without trying to go further.
The problem is not to debate about Oswald’s involvement which is amply demonstrated but people think he didn’t act alone. At the time, many people would have good reasons to want JFK’s death so there are multitudes of conspiracy theories and I’d like to present you some of the most talked ones.
It begins with the involvement of the central Intelligence Agency: the CIA. People think it may have played a role in JFK’s death because The CIA was upset about the changes being made within the agency after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Do you know in what it consisted ? It was a mission whose purpose was to overthrow the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro. Many CIA agents were about to be discharged after that and this would be the reasons why the agency would
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