I disagree with this statement as I believe other people also had ‘real motives ‘for wanting the American President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, dead. On Friday 22nd November JFK was assassinated as his Presidential motorcade travelled through Dealey Plaza on the way to lunch and a political rally at the Walmart centre. The next day, the police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination of the President. However, many people believe Oswald was falsely arrested as others also had reasons for wanting Kennedy dead such as Fidel Castro, the white supremacy group KKK, Lyndon B. Johnson, the government, and the mafia. Firstly, let’s consider Lee Harvey Oswald, who was born on October 18, 1939, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. In 1952, while living in New York with his mother, a psychological
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However, Oswald requested and obtained a discharge a few years later, after pleading ill health and the strained economic circumstances of his mother. Following discharge from the Marine Corps, he then spent only three days with his mother before travelling to the USSR to try to gain soviet citizenship. Furthermore, Oswald acquired a 6,5 calibre Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and an expensive Japanese telescopic sight, which were found alongside three cartridges at a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald worked. Oswald was also a communist and praised Fidel Castro, he therefore hated Kennedy due to the capitalist country he stood for so had a reason for wanting him dead. However, both Kennedy and Oswald disliked the racial discrimination, which was occurring at the time, so why would Oswald kill a President who was planning to put an end to the unfair treatment of people of colour? However, Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro, also had motives to kill Kennedy. One reason was the severely damaged relationship between Cuba and the United States during that
However, Oswald requested and obtained a discharge a few years later, after pleading ill health and the strained economic circumstances of his mother. Following discharge from the Marine Corps, he then spent only three days with his mother before travelling to the USSR to try to gain soviet citizenship. Furthermore, Oswald acquired a 6,5 calibre Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and an expensive Japanese telescopic sight, which were found alongside three cartridges at a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald worked. Oswald was also a communist and praised Fidel Castro, he therefore hated Kennedy due to the capitalist country he stood for so had a reason for wanting him dead. However, both Kennedy and Oswald disliked the racial discrimination, which was occurring at the time, so why would Oswald kill a President who was planning to put an end to the unfair treatment of people of colour? However, Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro, also had motives to kill Kennedy. One reason was the severely damaged relationship between Cuba and the United States during that