Jfk Assassination Conspiracy Theory

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In 1963 John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, his killer shot him from a window overlooking the limousine. However, after JFK’s death many conspiracies emerged about the shooter, the motive and who was really behind it. Therefore, despite JFK’s assignation and the official autopsy, many questions and theory’s emerged after his death. In 1961 John F Kennedy was the youngest man elected as the president of the United States. A Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts, he narrowly missed the democratic nominee for vice president in 1956 but four years later, he was the first democratic nominee for the presidency. The first Roman Catholic president, he was elected in 1961 and delivered his famous speech to the American …show more content…
The death of a prominent figure creates conspiracies in its own, but this is not the only reason for conspiracy. The most famous conspiracy is called the ‘grassy knoll’ in which shots were fired from a hiding place that was not the building that Oswald was in. This then creates the questions of was he the only gunman, did he act with a team, how did they not catch the other person or persons? This is extremely popular for conspiracy theorists because there is a large amount of evidence pointing to a cover up or multiple shooters. First; Oswald was shot before questioning, making it impossible to figure out if he acted alone. Then as you can see in the videos, the limo driver did not react immediately once he noticed JFK had ben shot the first time, giving the next shot enough time to strike JFK in the head, killing him. The presidential limousine in which JFK had been riding in, was scrubbed clean of all evidence in less than 24 hours of the assassination, no glass, blood or other evidence was left. The grassy knoll is a feasible belief for how JFK was killed, because the evidence all points that way and the multitude of people who claim to have seen another shooter or of heard more shots; some claim to know the group or people behind the killing. Who or whomever is behind the killings, we may never know; this is contributed to the lack of evidence, the clean up from the government and the conflicting stories. John F Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 was a tragic moment in American history. A single event that involves so much mystery and speculation will most likely never be solved. It was a catastrophic event for the American people in a time for great change in civil rights and economic success. No matter the people involved, who shot him from and even governments involvement, JFK’s death will always be what it is today, a