John F. Kennedy's Assassination

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JFK’s Assassination On November 22, 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas. The bullets of that were shot passed through John F. Kennedy’s head and rang out as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza. U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald on his own fired 3 shots from the Texas School Book Depository by the motorcade route. Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy. Oswald was a prior U.S. Marine. When John F. Kennedy was approaching his motorcade through Dallas, Oswald was seen on the 6th floor of his work building, carrying a rifle. 3 shots were fired, at 12:30 p.m. with the 2nd and 3rd hitting John F. Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy passed away at Parkland Memorial Hospital shortly after he was shot at age 46. Oswald was found leaving
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Kennedy assassination theories, but only 4 blended the most to me. The Mafia, The Soviets, The Cubans, and The Lyndon Johnson conspiracy theories are the 4 that were most interesting to me. The Lyndon Johnson theory was the least likely theory that would happen because Johnson wouldn’t try to kill the president if he was in office because he would lose his place in office or a job. Johnson was determined by ambition and accepted help from the members of the CIA and rich tycoons who believed they would profit more under the Johnson Administration. Johnson was assisted in the plot by another man who would become president, George H.W. Bush and rising CIA official who happened to be in Dallas on the day of the …show more content…
were in a harsh war. The Soviet Premier Nikita was trying to order the hit on Kennedy. The Soviets and the U.S. were involved in a bitter cold war. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was mortified by having to back down after the Cuban Missile Crisis he ordered the hit on Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald’s linking to the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was another piece of evidence. Oswald had 2 visited the Soviet Union with his Russian born wife Marina. The Warren Commission and the House Committee on Assassinations found slight evidence to maintain a Soviet-backed procedure, but 1 previous KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) agent came out years later to say that the Russians played a role in the

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