Grassy Knoll Argumentative Essay

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It's 12:30 p.m. in Houston, Texas. You have been waiting by the old textbook depository for President John F. Kennedy to ride past in his transport. He finally rounds the corner. You start waving and shouting his name. You can't believe you are this close to the President. Your expression melts as you hear what sounds to be a gunshot. Looking around you don't see anything. Seconds later a second is fired followed by a third. John F. Kennedy, full of life just seconds ago, head is now in pieces spread around the transport. You don't want to believe it, you tell yourself it's a lie. When the realization finally hits you anger floods over you. You ask who did this and what's the motive to commit such an atrocity, were they working with someone? A little under a year later, the government lead warren committee came to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Disgusted, you refuse to believe it. There has to be more you tell yourself, there was no way an ex marine had just shot killed the …show more content…
The first of these is about a Grassy Knoll. Lee Harvey Oswald was setup in the TextBook Depository, but a major majority of america believes there were two shooters, the Grassy Knoll is a patch of grass positioned off the road were a supposed second shooter was positioned. They support their claims two ways both involving bullets, the first is about the timing of the shots fired. There were a total of 3 shots fired, the first had a much longer gap between it then the second and third. They believe that oswald didn't have time to shoot all 3 bullets and that a second shooter fired the last one. The other side is based on the bullet entry into his skull. It's also commonly believed that it was one “magic bullet” that curved through JFK. This is truly one of the more far fetched theories because they claim the bullet is magick but it's crazy to think how far people will go to fabricate an idea in their