Lee Harvey Oswald

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    assassination as a whole. The Kennedy administration experienced a tense standoff with the Soviet Union attempting house their missiles in Cuba. The Kennedy administration also attempted to overthrow the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, but failed. Lee Harvey Oswald so happen to live in the Soviet Union for two years and also married a Russian woman. Either country could have called for the hit and transported…

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    the majority that Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed set up as a patsy to hide the real truth. The top three conspiracies which support this idea are the CIA theory, FBI/Secret Service theory, and the Soviet Union/Cuba theory. Even though all of the theories have different “why’s and how’s” to how the assassin came to be, they all share one common feature. Which is featuring Oswald as a patsy or in other words a scapegoat. Now think about it, in the CIA theory article, it showcases Oswald as a…

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    JFK Film Review Oliver Stone’s “JFK,” released in 1991, follows Jim Garrison in a quest for truth. Although official reports from the Warren Commission of John F. Kennedy’s assassination claim that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, the majority of Americans believe that there was a conspiracy behind Kennedy’s murder. Stone’s “JFK” combines historical evidence with fictional action to present a fascinating film. Although “JFK” does not answer the mystery behind the Kennedy assassination, the film…

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    four shots were taken in his direction and one killed him, it hit him in the back of the head chopping off the side if his head.He was riding with his wife, the governor of Texas, and his wife when he was shot. Lee Harvey Oswald was blamed for this horrific crime. I think Lee Harvey Oswald was part of a larger conspiracy though, I believe he took a shot or two but I don't think he took the shot that hit Kennedy’s head. Some people said they saw something silver coming out of the sixth floor book…

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    between liberal Ralph Yarborough and Don. At 12:30 pm the president was shot by a rifle and suffered gunshot wounds to his head and throat. By 1:00pm, John F Kennedy was pronounced dead. The prime suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. Unfortunately, two days after the assassination, Oswald was killed by Jack…

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    that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots for the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. This harshly wounded John F. Kennedy and it also injured Governor Connally. Kennedy was buried below Arlington House with full military honors and then an eternal flame was lit near the window to mark the grave. ("John…

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    John F Kennedy Early Life

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    Constant school changes plagued his childhood and eventually got him put into a “Youth House.” In this youth house, Oswald was given a psychological evaluation where the administer of this test said things like, “Lee has to be diagnosed as "personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive--aggressive tendencies" and “Lee has to be seen as an emotionally, quite disturbed youngster who suffers under the impact of really existing emotional isolation and deprivation…

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    Jfk Conspiracy Theories

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    the United States, although Lee Harvey is subjected to being the killer. A documentary on the assassination reveals new evidence that Oswald was the lone-gunman. He killed Kennedy in Dallas with his twenty-one dollar, mail-order rifle and that there was no evidence of conspiracy, foreign, or domestic. But why didn't Oswald's first bullet hit Kennedy? Max Holland set out an investigation to uncover the truth. His results revealed that there was a second window for Oswald to shoot more than three…

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    November 11th, 1963 the 35th President Of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. Lee Harvey Oswald was the prime suspect in President Kennedy’s assassination but was soon “assassinated” himself by Jack Ruby. Because of his sudden death, Oswald was never able to tell his story, however there are many ideas on who killed the President. Many say it was a conspiracy and some say it was Oswald alone. I personally believe Kennedy’s death was a conspiracy. Although, I believe it…

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    Tippit. Later that day during an arranged press conference, Oswald was asked if he shot the President which he denied. Oswald was interrogated for twelve hours concerning his involvement in the murders of J.D. Tippit and JFK. These investigations could not be continued because just two days after the assassination while being transferred from city to county jail a Dallas nightclub owner, Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. The staff who treated President Kennedy knew there was no…

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