Jfk Assassination Research Paper

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It has been 55 years since the John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination in Dallas TX. Right now it’s 2018 and a lot of questions are still circulating about that day, but the main question that everyone have is why? There has been many theories about what happened on November 22, 1963, many people think that the CIA had an involvement of the JFK assassination because of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, others think that the CIA worked with the mafia to kill JFK and others think the Vice President Lyndon Johnson was behind the assassination of JFK, because he would fear being dropped the democratic ticket in 1964. I believe that the CIA was behind the assassination of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald was part of the CIA coverup. As we know on November …show more content…
It all started with the Bay of Pigs invasion, the CIA told the president that the invasion would be kept a secret and it would spark an anti-castra uprising on the island. On April 1, 1961, a group of Cuban exiles took off from Nicaragua to look for stolen Cuban planes and to strike against cuban airfields. The CIA wanted to keep the attack a secret, but a radio station on the beach broadcast every detail to listeners across Cuba. Castro and his advisers knew about his plan and took their planes out of harm's way. President Kennedy began to suspect the the plane that the CIA had would be “both clandestine and successful” might be in fact “too large to be Clandestine and too small to be successful”. The CIA and the Cuban exile hoped that JFK would allow American Military to intervene of their behalf, but the president stated, “As much as he did not want to abandon Cuba to Communist, he would not start a fight that might end up in World War …show more content…
In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations released its final report. It contained a shocking finding: “Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fire at President John F. Kennedy”. The discovery was founded almost 15 years later, the sounds on the recordings were picked by a policeman who had his microphone stuck in the “on” position. They believe that three shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository and one from a grassy knoll. In 1982, The National Academy of Sciences a Committee on Ballistic Acoustics to re example the acoustic evidence. However, they did not find no data. I believe that there was a second shooter, that the CIA is also trying to cover up. Based on the position of Oswald and his gun, it had to be impossible to be able to shoot a gun at a moving

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