Kennedy Assassination Research Paper

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“One of you guys did it”, was said by Robert Kennedy. This is what was remarked around noon November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas. The murder of ex-president Kennedy has to be one of the most memorable assassinations in us history. According to a recent survey taken, 84 percent of Crane High School students/staff knew that president Kennedy was assassinated. From this survey I can use this information and estimate that this also close to the United State percentage of knowing Kennedy was assassinated.

When did this situation happen? President Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was flying to Love Field, Dallas, Tex around 11:40 am on Friday, November 22, 1963. His initial reasoning for being in Fort Worth/ Dallas area was because the day
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There was confusion at the scene of where the sounds came from or origins of the shots. Many witnesses had different views on where the gunshots came from. After a while, most of the surveillance went to the Texas School Book Depository Co. According to many witnesses they had seen a rifle being shot from the southeast corner window of the sixth floor of the building. 1/15 people were considered missing after leaving the building quickly. As the police narrowed down the suspects they arrived at the Paine house and asked a few questions to Marina Oswald. The police were asking whether her husband, Lee Harvey Oswald, owned a rifle and she replied yes. At the police headquarters a captain had already begun to interrogate Oswald. There were many clues and concerning evidence that led up the police to think it was him. As they were transporting Oswald to a different building, a man by the name of Jack Ruby was carrying a Colt .38 revolver. In front of live cameras and the media, Jack ran up to Oswald and shot him. Immediately the police arrested him and within minutes Jack was in a cell and sentenced to death. As for Oswald, he was pronounced dead after he never regained consciousness. A conspiracy about Jack being linked to the murder of president Kennedy surfaced, but was later cut down short after enough evidence was shown that Mr. Oswald was the assassin of the president. Still even with that evidence, not many people were convinced. The public still very spetect and puzzled by the whole