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    On November 22nd, 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was visiting Dallas Texas while preparing for his next presidential campaign. President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife Nellie Connolly were all four riding together in the President’s limousine. Closely following them was another limousine filled of secret service agents, the only agent that was armed was George Hickey. Agent Hickey was armed with an AR-15, his rifle was loaded with rounds encased by copper…

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    A Lingering Conspiracy

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    A Lingering Conspiracy in American History Although taking place over a half-century ago, people consider the assassination of John F. Kennedy as one of the most prominent events of American history. With the National Archives releasing nearly 20,000 declassified CIA and FBI documents in 2017, new details and revelations give conspiracy theorists a new insight on what really occurred on November 22, 1963 in Dealey Plaza. The lead investigation team in 1963, the Warren Commission, concluded that…

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    shots at the car in which the president was riding in the back of with his wife, the Governor of Texas, John Connally and his wife also. As the vehicle with the Kennedys and Connallys drove past the Texas School Book Depository building, Oswald supposedly fired his gun which was fatal for President Kennedy and injured Governor Connally very seriously. A fourth shot was shot from the grassy knoll which completely contradicts what the Warren Commission had first stated. Throughout the…

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    This week we were asked to read the article, The View from The Grassy Knoll which discusses conspiracy thinking surrounding the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. Moreover, he asserts that the assassination of the president was prime for conspiracy theories, specifically because it occurred during such a critical moment in American history. Additionally, government agencies had confessed that there were mistakes, and there was even discrepancies in official accounts, leaving even more…

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    assassination. Around 12:30pm, on channel 1, a noise occurred on the radio transmission that experts say sounded like gunfire. The House Select Committee later determined that the sound pattern caught on channel 1 might have come from the grassy knoll and concluded that it could have contributed to a conspiracy. The was a separate study done on the radio recordings and the laboratory finds were the…

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    Change: America from 1960-1980 The death of President John F. Kennedy had a major impact on the United States of America. This president did not only die, he was assassinated, and his killer remains unknown. The day Kennedy died America wept. There are still so many questions that are left with no answers. What produced this “crime of the century”, why has there been so much controversy over it, and how did it affect the next presidents? John F. Kennedy wanted peace. In June 1963 Kennedy gave…

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    November 22, 1963 the day our beloved 35th president John F. Kennedy was assissinated in Dallas, Texas by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald or so we told. My main question is did Oswald really act alone in the shooting of Kennedy? Was their another shooter that was not found, Could it have been the Soviets, Fidel Castro, The United States military, or Vice President Lydon B. Johnson the real culprit behind the assissination of Kennedy? Over the years new theories that Oswald was not the only…

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    had the idea that his death was an assassination, a stone cold murder but it was merely an accident. President John F. Kennedy’s death shocked the world, but who was the actual killer? Based on the backstory, the forensics/trajectory, and the witnesses; evidence has proven that Lee Harvey Oswald was assisted in this assassination attempt, but was not the person who killed JFK. John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960. At the time of his presidency, America was involved in worldwide political…

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    It is believed John F Kennedy had a death premonition. Just two years before his secretary was cleaning off his table and found a piece of paper with his handwriting saying. “I know there is a god, there is a storm coming. If he has a place for me, I’m ready”. Two fascinating conspiracy’s are the, multiple shooters theory and that the presidents brain is missing from the national archives. Kennedy was unfortunately assassinated on, November 22nd 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald the man who assassinated…

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    The JFK assassination was a terrible event in history and there are many sides to this event. These were the magic bullet, single bullet, and grassy knoll theories. The many conspiracies of JFK’s assassination still impact the controversy today. His life before congress was very interesting with all of the great schools he has been to. JFK is very smart and has attended a couple of really good schools in his past. Earlier in life JFK enrolls in princeton university, but later drops out due…

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