Conspiracy Theories: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy

While there are many conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy’s death and his assassin, I agree with the majority that Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed set up as a patsy to hide the real truth. The top three conspiracies which support this idea are the CIA theory, FBI/Secret Service theory, and the Soviet Union/Cuba theory. Even though all of the theories have different “why’s and how’s” to how the assassin came to be, they all share one common feature. Which is featuring Oswald as a patsy or in other words a scapegoat. Now think about it, in the CIA theory article, it showcases Oswald as a recruited CIA member during his involvement as a U.S. Marine and blames rouge CIA members as a cause for Kennedy’s death. Now, what if Oswald himself was a rogue CIA member? That …show more content…
Out of the three conspiracy theories that I thought were interesting, I honestly think that the FBI, CIA and Secret Service were in on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The theory I based my personal on was off of the CIA theory, mainly because they had a reason to hate Kennedy and assassinate him than FBI or the Secret Service. The reason being that JFK didn’t allow the CIA to carry out the plan at Bay of Pigs by not providing air support and planned to cut the agency’s budget by 20%. So in order to assassinate Kennedy the CIA would have to “pick the perfect scapegoat” and who else would have been a better patsy than Lee Harvey Oswald? It would probably be likely that he was selected during his Marine work for the U.S. military and then sent to the USSR to apply for a citizenship to which he was denied and later returned to the U.S. After a while he also applied for a passage to Cuba a multiple number of times for which he was also denied for. And because of his attempts to get citizenship in a