Kennedy S Assassination Essay Research Paper November

Kennedy S Assassination Essay, Research Paper

November 22, 1963. Another shot heard around the world. The assassination of Kennedy is the one of the most trivial events in the history of the United States. Many different people have various opinions to who actually assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Two authors who have written books on the trivial subject of Kennedy s assassination are: Jim Garrison who wrote A Heritage of Stone, and Anthony Summers who authored Conspiracy. They both share the idea that Oswald was part of a conspiracy, and similarly they think the assassination was carried out by a powerful group of people. President Lyndon B. Johnson was appointed to president after the death of J.F.K. and a commission was set-up by him to investigate the assassination. The Warren Commission, after analyzing the events for ten months, reported that Lee Harvey Oswald was not part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign, to assassinate President Kennedy. The findings of the Warren Commission are questioned in both books and are written about as though the commission was lying about what actually happened. In Anthony Summers book, Conspiracy, he presents to the reader many possible organizations that could be linked to the Kennedy assassination. Summers does not come out and say whom he thinks killed Kennedy, rather he offers different possibilities and allows the reader to decide. Not even one of his possibilities agrees with the conclusion of the Warren Commission of Oswald not being part of any conspiracy. The organizations he presents, as ones associated with the assassination are the Mafia, the government intelligence agencies and Fidel Castro. Similarly, to the conclusions of the Warren Commission, the writings in the Conspiracy give no definite answer to who actually murdered Kennedy. Primarily, Summers associates the Kennedy assassination to have been carried out by the Mafia leaders who were affected by the policies of Kennedy. His interviews with mobsters show that it was a probable organization connected with the Kennedy assassination. Summers interviewed Jose Aleman to get information on the feelings of the Florida Mafia boss, Santo Trafficante. During the course of the interview, Aleman spoke about Trafficante s disgust with the Kennedy s and their crack down on organized crime. Trafficante was quoted as saying; Kennedy s not going to make it to the election. He is going to be hit. (p.284) The hit the Mafia boss referred to is a word that the Mafia uses when they are going to kill someone and the hit could have been when Kennedy was shot to death. Summers also found Ed Becker, a mobster who had testified for the Assassinations Committee and said that Carlos Marcello, the New Orleans Mafia boss, had taken out insurance for President Kennedy s death. Becker also testified that the insurance could have been to, Set-up a nut to take the blame. (p. 290). One of the people on the committee said after hearing testifiers, I am now firmly of the opinion that the mob did it. It is a historical truth. (p. 290). Another organization possibly linked to the assassination, according to Summers in his book is the government agency called the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In this possibility, he connects Oswald to the government agencies when he interviewed Senator Schweiker, a committee member, who said that he strongly believed that Oswald was related to the assassination. Summers also found another person who stated that he firmly believes President Kennedy was killed as the direct result of a plot by an element of American intelligence. (p. 296) A third theory, also presented in the Conspiracy, is that of Castro plotting a plan to kill Kennedy. This theory is possible because Kennedy was an enemy of Castro due to Kennedy s theoretical plot to kill Castro. Castro discovered this plan and in retaliation he sent out troops to kill Kennedy before he could kill him. John Roselli who said I was a good friend of Castro and he told me that he had sent troops to the United States confirmed the troops that were sent by Castro. (p. 121). All three theories were well supported by Summers and the decision of what is true he has left up to the reader. His interviews and his researching show that all his theories have substance to them. Similar to the book Conspiracy, A Heritage of Stone by Jim Garrison also denounces the conclusions made by the Warren Commission and he states that they gave the people unbelievable lies. (p. 19). I believe that the Kennedy assassination was carried out by the force inside the United States government and the assassination is a conspiracy. According to Garrison the inside forces are the only groups that could have done this. He presents a one sided point of view on the Kennedy assassination and gives no other possibilities for the reader to consider. Undoubtedly, Garrison takes a great amount of time to show the contradictions and faults of the conclusion of the Warren Commission. Through the entirety of the novel, A Heritage of Stone, Garrison discover many secret about the Commission and the information they destroyed or hid away somewhere. He is so specific that he even lists the actual file names that were that were missing from the conclusion of the Commission. Garrison states There was information given to the Secret Service about Oswald and his past history which was not presented to the Commission to analyze. (p.93). The main theory, presented b