JFK Essay Research Paper JFK Killed by

J.F.K. Essay, Research Paper

JFK; Killed by the Warren Commission.

On November 22, 1963, while being driven through the streets of Dallas Texas, in his open car, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead. Lee Harvey Oswald, was suspected to be the sole assassin. It has been the most controversial case in modern American history. Did Lee Harvey Oswald kill John Kennedy by himself, or did a conspiracy do it. If a conspiracy did it, did the conspiracy include Oswald. Most Americans believe that a conspiracy killed Kennedy. Few Americans accepted that Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy, because that is what the government concluded to be the right answer to give the American people. Now if you are not of the few Americans, you have not accepted what the government stated as facts, you believe that there is another piece to the puzzle to be solved, or to be revealed (The Kennedy Assassination Home Page). There are many theories that have been proposed as to who killed the president and why they killed him. Our own government came up with it s own theory, and since the government produced the theory who can tell them otherwise. This is why some people believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone gunman, because nobody can judge the government. And on the flip side of the coin that is why people believe Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin, by accepting what the government revealed. Because if the government came up with the theory then they would have the power to get all the facts and to determine the truth using all possible resources, (The Kennedy Assassination Home Page). Personally I believe that the government did not get the full truth out of the assassination, I feel they covered up the assassination or did not reveal the full truth as to who was behind the assassination. Based on the fact that were published by the Warren Commission, I feel they have failed in determining what really happened on that day in Dallas.

The Warren Commission was a group of seven proponent Americans, hired or asked to come together and sort all the evidence, interview all the witnesses and determine a synopsis of what happened that day in Dallas. Most of the evidence was over looked and disregarded. The facts of the assassination are very vague, meaning that most of the facts can be argued into another answer. The basic facts of the assassination are that John F. Kennedy was shot twice, once in the head and once in the neck, also Governor Conoley was also shot in the back. The Warren Commission stated that three shots were fired, one missed, one hit the President in the head and then maneuvered over and stuck Governor Conoley in the back. This statement has been the single most controversial issue of the assassination. The single bullet theory is what was published to be the truth, but too most people this was a theory made up to cover up a second gun-man. The Warren commission said that the bullet struck Kennedy in the back of the head, blowing it open upon entering the head, then it exited the front of the head leaving a small hole to the skull. The bullet then made a 90-degree turn and another 90-degree turn and then striking the Governor in the back then exiting his chest and hitting his wrist, crushing it, then hit his leg. After all the detours and hits the bullet was found and had seemed to be in perfect condition with no signs of it being compacted (Who Killed JFK; Facts not Fiction).

Sketch of Magic Bullet Theory.

This is what the Warren Commission published for the American people to believe. If this fact were not true than there must have been a second bullet that hit Kennedy, and if this second bullet had came from the front it would make it easier to believe that the fatal head wound came from the front.

When Kennedy was shot in the head it is clearly seen on the Zappruder film that Kennedy s head is violently swung backward. Based on the published facts of the Warren Commission the shot came from the back, so how could his head be shot in a backward direction if it was shot from the rear. A more logical answer would be that Kennedy was shot from the front causing his head to be shot in backward direction (Beyond JFK The question of Conspiracy).

Picture of the Fatal Head Shot.

(Picture form Zapruder film.)

With this fact in play in the assassination there must have been a second gunman. There were many witnesses that remember seeing a puff of smoke behind the grassy-knoll, and remember hearing a shot coming from that direction.

The grassy knoll was just in front of the motorcade as it was coming up the road. Seconds after the shooting many people ran toward the grassy knoll, and trained police officers who know what a gun shot would sound like, ran toward the grassy knoll. Witnesses remember hearing a shot come from the direction and also seeing a puff of smoke rise above the white picked fence. In the Warren Report there was no investigation of the grassy knoll. With many eyewitnesses distinctively remember hearing and seeing smoke from the grassy knoll, why was not any investigation of the people who were around the grassy knoll at the time of the shooting. It is puzzling why the Warren Commission would not investigate the possibility of there being a second gunman. And if there was a second gunman it would have made it easier to believe that the three shots were fired in a matter of five po