In November 22 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated; two bullets got him, one in the head and another in the neck. Lee Harvey Oswald was the main suspect for the assassination and a commission to investigate the matter concluded that Oswald was acting alone. However, two days after the assassination, a night club owner, Jack Ruby, shot dead Oswald on live television. Killing the main suspect only meant one thing; that the death of the key suspect denied Americans a fair criminal justice process that would have brought closure for a public trial. This historical event continues to be a very memorable one and until today, different scholars continue to debate on the different conspiracies behind the assassination. Most of these debates
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At that time majority of Americans believed that the findings of the commission would help provide clarity and closure on the events that surrounded J.F. Kennedy’s murder. However, when the Warren Commission Report was published in 1964, Americans could not help but wonder about the existence of an assassination conspiracy (Kurtz 129). This was mainly because of the findings of the report that suggested different things that raised questions regarding the role of the government in the assassination. For example, the report claimed that the president’s two bullet shots came from two different directions; one from behind and another from above. As the public later could tell, the post-mortem revelation was only one of the things that the government used to divert attention from the actual assassins and cover up evidence.
Another way in which the federal government attempted to cover up the truth in the president’s assassination according to Kurtz is the role of the FBI in hiding some facts about the case. According to Kurtz, the FBI together with President’s Kennedy’s family refused to allow all the case evidence and facts to be made public. By hiding the truth and some facts, the FBI played a critical role in hiding the truth and this raises questions on the intentions of the US government to cover up the truth behind Kennedy’s assassinations from all the levels of
At that time majority of Americans believed that the findings of the commission would help provide clarity and closure on the events that surrounded J.F. Kennedy’s murder. However, when the Warren Commission Report was published in 1964, Americans could not help but wonder about the existence of an assassination conspiracy (Kurtz 129). This was mainly because of the findings of the report that suggested different things that raised questions regarding the role of the government in the assassination. For example, the report claimed that the president’s two bullet shots came from two different directions; one from behind and another from above. As the public later could tell, the post-mortem revelation was only one of the things that the government used to divert attention from the actual assassins and cover up evidence.
Another way in which the federal government attempted to cover up the truth in the president’s assassination according to Kurtz is the role of the FBI in hiding some facts about the case. According to Kurtz, the FBI together with President’s Kennedy’s family refused to allow all the case evidence and facts to be made public. By hiding the truth and some facts, the FBI played a critical role in hiding the truth and this raises questions on the intentions of the US government to cover up the truth behind Kennedy’s assassinations from all the levels of