JFK Assassination

As most of you know, our school was named after president JFK. Therefore I think that it is important to know what happened to him.

The Warren Commission was established to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy which took place on November 22, 1963 in Dealey Plaza, Texas. However there are a few things in the Warren Commission that don’t exactly match up. Also, there are certain events that took place that are sort of “sketchy”. The President was riding the presidential limousine with his wife, Jackie Kennedy, Texas Governor, John Connally, and wife Nellie. The first “sketchy” thing was that they were told to take the convertible limo instead of the limo with the top. Also, as they were leaving the airport, the secret service was told to ride in a limo behind the president’s instead of walk next to the presidential limo. Before the president had arrived in Dealey Plaza, the route his limo was going to take, was told to the public (this no longer happens). Since his route was told to the public, anyone could have planned an assassination. They would have been able to plan everything out ahead of time and work out details so their identities wouldn’t be discovered, or they could have had time to frame someone else.

 Lee Harvey Oswald was the man arrested for the assignation of JFK. He was an EX US marine and there are pictures of him and the rifle found at the scene before 11/22. However Oswald told the press that he didn’t do it and that he was framed. Oswald’s gun was an Italian Mannlicher-Carcono. This was not a very reliable gun, in fact in a reenactment of the assassination, the gun misfired 5 out of 21 times. The gun was also a bolt action gun which meant he had to of cycled twice in order to fire 3 shots in 6-9 seconds, like the warren Commission stated. Oswald was no sharpshooter but he was a Marine. Also, in those short seconds you have to consider the kickback, muzzle rise, and having to reacquire his target. I don’t believe that Oswald could have done this alone, in fact, I’m not even sure it was Oswald who did it. Yes, Oswald’s finger prints were on the gun found at the scene, the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, and he has pictures with the same gun, but I think the gun could have been taken from him ahead of time, so his finger prints were already on the gun and it was stashed at the scene of the crime.

 These are only a few of the many many facts about the JFK assassination and there are so many conspiracy theories about what happened. This was just a brief explanation of what happened and some of my thoughts, so I’ll leave the rest up to and let you decide what really happened.

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