Jfk Assassination Conspiracy Analysis

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The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and was not part of a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy; I disagree with this claim. After careful evaluation of all the evidence presented in the case, I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted as part of a conspiracy to assassinate the president. Analysis of the potential motives of different groups, direct/testimonial evidence, physical/forensic evidence, and circumstantial evidence found at Dealey Plaza shows that there is a real possibility that the assassination of President Kennedy was not carried out by a single man. Testimonial evidence, in addition to a few conceivable motives to kill the president, support the idea that Kennedy’s murder on November twenty-second, …show more content…
Eyewitnesses claim to have heard three shots fired during the assassination, and two of the shots were apparently fired less than a second apart. The Zapruder film supports the eyewitness claims because it clearly shows the moments when President Kennedy and Governor Connolly were shot, which were only two frames apart in the film. Oswald’s rifle would not have enabled him to fire off those shots in such a quick succession; it actually would have taken him about three or four seconds between firing his shots. Additionally, a piece of evidence that was nicknamed “the second magic bullet” was found on Governor Connolly’s stretcher. According to the Warren Commission, the bullet supposedly entered through Kennedy’s throat, passed through Connolly’s back, shattered a rib and continued on through his body to make contact with the radial bone, after which a bullet fragment struck Connolly in his right thigh. But, tests using the same type of bullet in a circumstance similar to the actual assassination suggest that more than one bullet was actually used to shoot both Kennedy and Connolly, which insinuates that more than one assassin was

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