John F Kennedy's Conspiracy Theory

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A conspiracy theory explains an event or situation as the result of a plan. There were many conspiracy theories in the 1960s for the assassinations of great leaders. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was shot to death in 1968. Many people believed the US government played a big part in his assassination. Even the FBI thought there must have been a conspiracy behind King’s murder. Till today people still come up with many different theories. Another conspiracy theory was the assassination of John F Kennedy. President Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade. The investigation concluded that Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. Many people doubted that was the shooter. The assassination is still the talk many different conspiracy

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