Who Was Responsible For Kennedy's Assassination

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There are many theories on how John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated, but which one is true? John Kennedy was not the best president the United States had but he had goals to make the country better. He was forty-three when he was elected, he was the youngest president to be elected. On May 25,1961, he addressed congress saying “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” He was also the first Catholic president to be elected and he also established the Peace Corps. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Some say that the Central Intelligence Agency was behind the plot. But why would the Agency which protects our country kill the president? Others say the mob was responsible. No one knows who assassinated this great man. Many theories have been presented on how this president was assassinated, but none have been proven. There is not enough information to prove any of the theories …show more content…
Any agency that was involved with the Bay of Pigs did not like how Kennedy did not take the necessary actions to take out Castro. Because of this action it intensified the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crises. “When the Castro assassination plots were revealed in the 1970s, means was added to motive, and this lead many to suspect that the CIA, or at least some officers and agents of it, were involved in Kennedy’s death.” (The CIA and the JFK assassination) There were never real confessions that the CIA was involved but the closest thing to it was a tape “confession” left behind by E. Howard Hunt when he died. The tape said that he knew about the plot to assassinate Kennedy but was never apart of it. After all the evidence one can see why the theory was never proven. There were too many unanswered questions and a lack of

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