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    reaction that would begin to develop not too long after the man responsible for the death of the president was revealed to the American public. The first major argument was the question of “Is Oswald that good of a shot?” The distance and the fact that the motorcade was moving made many people believe that Oswald, even with his military background, could not have hit the deadly shot to Kennedy. Next, the idea of multiple shooters would begin to come to lite almost instantly. Many conspirators…

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    Pratchett - Thinking, Impulses, Actions, and Consequences In the book Jingo written by Terry Pratchett, Pratchett uses characters to provide insight on issues in society, more specially how Kennedy’s assassination relates to issues in society. The main commentary that Jingo makes is an insight on problem solving. The majority of the time solving problems people jump to conclusions and have naive opinions. This can lead to reckless and negligent fighting. Often times people have hindsight of…

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    John F. Kennedy once said,” If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop them, so why worry about going to Dallas. Little did he know that he had predicted his own death. There were three phases to his assassination, arriving in Dallas. When the assassination actually happened. Also when the funeral and the aftermath services of his death. Of course, John F. Kennedy(also known as JFK) was in Dallas to get more presidential votes for the 1964 presidential race, which…

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    did not provide much detail, and people believed everything they heard and read. I today’s society Kennedy’s death it is still a mystery because we never found out or solve who really killed him. People said that the killer is Lee Harvey Oswald, but some people doubt it that Lee acted alone. Today’s society is more opened about this kind of topics because since Kennedy’s death we have been better…

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    of Days by James Swanson, John F. Kennedy’s assassination is deeply analyzed, looking at not only Kennedy’s background and story but the assassin and those close to Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald became notorious for the assassination of JFK, but his violent nature did not start with JFK’s murder. On March 25, 1963, Oswald…

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    There are many things that set Kennedy apart from Eisenhower. One thing that sets Kennedy from Eisenhower is that Eisenhower thinks of Kennedy as “callow” and “ incapable of governing”, he also finds it appalling that a man who was nothing more than a lieutenant in WW2 is taking over the presidency while Eisenhower himself is a general who directed the D-Day Invasion. While Kennedy thinks of Eisenhower as nothing more than an old general that has zero interest when it came to righting the wrong…

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    In order for Oswald to have assassinated JFK with a “6.5 mm Carcano model 91/38 carbine,”1. rifle, he would have first had to have fired the aforementioned rifle on the day of the assassination; Lee Harvey Oswald’s paraffin test showed no such evidence of him having fired a gun that day. At the time of Oswald’s questioning, W. E. Barnes of the Dallas Police Department subjected him to a paraffin test, where warm paraffin wax was applied to Oswald’s hands and right cheek and was allowed to cool…

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    wife and children this was not only a honor and respect, he is a man with a large target on his back. In the november of nineteen sixty one, the nation felt the pain of the assassination by a man that is now dead but is still under research. Lee Harvey Oswald was an employee at a school book depository located in the same rout (that was changed with no explanation why) as president Kennedy when he was assassinated in that warm november afternoon. At the time…

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    After John Wilkes Booth escaped from the heavy locked-down Washington D.C. and the Northern army, on the night of the assassination of President Lincoln, JWB headed to Texas and there he took the alias: John Saint Helen. This Friday, October 27th, 2017 the, supposedly, last of the withheld records associated with the John F. Kennedy assassination are set to be released. With the many, many coincidences between these two murders, one more seems to be ready to hit the consciousness of millions of…

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    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 shooter that day in Dallas, maybe Oswald was working with someone who felt…

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