John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Assassination

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassination November 22, 1963 is a day carved into many Americans memory. This day will never be forgotten by most American citizens. This was the day John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was assassinated. JFK’s assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald and he acted alone in this assassination.
Lee Harvey Oswald was one man with a grudge and a gun. It is reported that Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository (Ziegler). The shot that fatally wounded the president was the third shot taken by Oswald. The second was reportedly the shot that hit the governor. The first shot reportedly missed the limousine completely and hit the curb. If Oswald would’ve been working with someone some kind of evidence would have came about. One thing that supports Oswald acting alone is that during the presidential parade there was a little girl chasing the limousine and she stopped on a dime and looked up at the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository (Ziegler). Also if there were another shooter there would have been more bullets or shell casings found to support the idea of another shooter.
One big reason that Lee may have killed the president was because he had recently taken a trip to the Soviet Union and stayed there two
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Kennedy that Lee Harvey Oswald did not even kill the president or that he did not act alone in the murder. The reason that these conspiracy theories are false are because there is a substantial amount of evidence going against Lee that he was the one that killed the president. One part of that evidence is that Lee’s prints were all over the gun that was used in the murder. Another part of the evidence was that there were reportedly three shots fired from the sixth floor of the depository, and three 6.5 mm shell casings were found on that sixth floor matching to the caliber of the gun that Lee owned (John F. Kennedy assassination

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