JFK Assassination: Just Or Unjust?

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Have you ever wondered if John F. Kennedy’s assassination was just or unjust? JFK the 35th president of the United States was assassinated by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was just because….he opposed “The March on Washington” and shared a mistress with a notorious mafia leader. However some believed he was a good president just because he was a kind person. But, research shows JFK caused a national disaster his first year in office called the “Bay of Pigs Invasion” in 1961. First, Kennedy was against the March on Washington. The March on Washington was when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963. According to “Kennedy in White House 1963, March on Washington,” (Matthews,Davis)

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