Jfk Assassination Research Paper

It was November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. The sun was shining down and thousands of people gathered to watch President Kennedy give a speech. A motorcade containing the president turned southwest down Elm Street to head to the Trade Mart. It was then that the chaos began. Shots echoed through the air and seconds later, it was over. The 35th president of the United States of America had been assassinated. Quickly after the incident, the alleged shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, was apprehended on suspicion of the murder of John F. Kennedy. However, Oswald never made it to trial because he was murdered during transportation between jails two days after his arrest. Human curiosity and suspicion has not failed this assassination. The John. F. Kennedy

Kennedy”). Surgeons tried helplessly to save the 35th president of the United States, but their efforts had no prevail (“Assassination of John F. Kennedy”). Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00pm just thirty minutes after the shooting (“Assassination of John F. Kennedy”). Fearing the assassination was the beginning of an attack from the Soviet Union, Lyndon B. Johnson left Dallas at 2:38pm with President Kennedy’s body and wife on board (“Assassination of John F. Kennedy”). He took the oath of office on Air Force One with a blood splattered Jacqueline Kennedy still by his side (“Assassination of John F.

Kennedy is the multiple shooter theory. There are an endless amount of conspiracy theories about the Kennedy Assassination, but a commonality in them all is that they agree that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. There are many pieces of evidence suggesting that there were multiple shooters. One theory places another shooter on the Grassy Knoll in front of the motorcade (Perry). Witnesses say they heard shots come from that direction and police officers even ran to the area attempting to find the shooter (Perry). A picture captured at precisely the time of the shooting looked upon the Grassy Knoll (Perry). In it, a puff of smoke and what appears to be a human lay perched on the hill (Perry). In one video that was shot that day, Kennedy’s head can be seen lurching back and to the left suggesting that he was impacted from the right front area (Perry). One theory even suggests that Secret Service agents began guiding people away from the Grassy Knoll in an attempt to let the shooter escape (Perry). Critics claim that the position in which Connally and Kennedy sat, would not allow a bullet to travel and hit both men (Perry). The bullet’s trajectory did not match up with what Kennedy and Connally would have to be lined up in if it was the same bullet according to the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ findings (Perry). It is important to note that the bullet, if it was indeed a single bullet had to