The Kennedy Assassination: Just Or Unjust?

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The Kennedy Assassination: Just or Unjust?
John F. Kennedy’s death was a tragic yet questionable day. His death was unjustified because he fought for equal rights, was a advocate for black people, and he did great things for his country. However, others may say it was justified for trying to force a nation into a new way of life.
John F. Kennedy was one of the only presidents that for black people during civil rights and the Jim Crow era. He did a lot for African Americans. When Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested, Kennedy called Coretta King for sympathy. As a man running for president that was white to do something like that during the Jim Crow era, that was a big thing. What he did for African Americans was great thing. The inequality between
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Kennedy was definitely one of the greatest presidents America has had. He did great things for America like the space race. He was also in World War II. He helped save a soldier and received the Purple Heart and the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. He could’ve done more great things for America if he wasn’t assassinated. It was unfair towards America and the citizens.
However, others may say John F. Kennedy tried to rush or force a nation into a new way of life after 300 years or that it was just right for us to be separated. That could be what Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of John F. Kennedy thought about when Kennedy was making these decisions. But these decisions weren’t coming off as wrong, it only came off wrong to the racist people. Either way, no one deserves to be assassinated, especially not John F. Kennedy.
John F. Kennedys death was unjustified because he fought for equal rights, was a advocate for black people, and he did great things for his country. However others may say it was justified because Kennedy tried to force a nation into a new way of life after 300 years or thought it was just right for us to be separated. Kennedy didn’t deserve to die. There comes a time of change for everything and sometimes you have to force the change to happen and that’s what Kennedy

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