JFK assassination is a mystery, and no one knows exactly what happened. After more than half a century of research and discussion, there are still discrepancies in peoples’ understanding of the mystery. The murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy 50 years ago remains unsolved; for this reason, many conspiracy theories have been developed. The information is incomplete, the motives behind the assassination unknown and the evidence is lacking. This paper will evaluate the assassination of JFK, which is regarded as a shocking murder in history and which occurred on November 22, 1963. The paper seeks to discuss the aspect that the gunman was not alone, the magic bullet that shot JFK and the reasons why the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the government kept the events of that day as a secret.
The assassination of JFK is still unsolved after 55 years. Love Field in Dallas welcomed Air Force One on November 22, 1963, at 11.38 a.m. The US President JFK had boarded a plane to boost support for himself ahead of the 1960 presidential election (Corsi). Less than an hour later, the shooter fired a bullet and shot the president and governor. However, the shooter’s identity (and motive) has been the subject of considerable debate and research ever since the incident occurred (Corsi). Based on the Warren Commission report, Lee Harvey Oswald seemed lost in thought and unable to focus on anything. History is full of ridiculous facts, and many Americans find it hard to accept that a lone shooter was responsible for this tragedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who is a former United States Marine, attacked Kennedy from a nearby building (Storing). Abraham Zapruder’s classic footage showed that President John F. Kennedy and Vice President John Connally were shot simultaneously (Storing). The gunman could not have shot swiftly enough to hit the pair of them with two bullets, much less the fatal one that killed Kennedy seconds later (Nalli). New employee Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at 2:15 p.m. for the slaying of JFK and the deadly shooting of a patrolman in Dallas at 1:15 p.m. at the Book Depository (Storing). Two days later, on November 24, a police informant and local night club owner Jack Ruby is regarded to have shot Oswald at point-blank range and on live TV.
Despite the official finding concerning the assassination, many people think Oswald did not act alone. More conspirators—from prearranged crime to Cuban exiles to the CIA are accountable for Kennedy’s killing. Only 33% of Americans believe Oswald carried out the assassination of Kennedy by himself, according to a 2017 poll by the website Five Thirty Eight (Nalli). More than 30,000 previously unseen documents were availed by the National Archives to the public in 2018 and 2017 (Corsi). The bullet would have to swerve while in flight to do the damage the Warren study claims it did. The commission’s opponents posed the argument concerning the presence of a second shooter from a distinct angle.
After JFK was shot in 1963, witnesses differed on the location of his killer while agreeing on the number and timing of the shots fired (Nalli). In addition to acoustics, human sound localization is a factor in the broad disagreement over gunshot origins. For many eyewitnesses, the shock wave from a bullet traveling at supersonic speeds arrived before the muzzle explosion, resulting in inaccurate information about the gunshot’s origins (Nalli). During the official government reenactment of the JFK assassination in 1978, professional observers were remarkably correct in locating the source of gunshots fired from either of two positions. However, their supplementary observations aid clarifies why eyewitnesses to the assassination were unable to agree.
JFK and Governor Connally were shot by the same magic bullet, which makes this the central question of whether Lee Harvey Oswald could have acted alone. When the Warren Commission examined the events, Oswald fired his first shot from the Texas School Book Depository toward Kennedy and Texas’ Governor John Connally (Nalli). According to the investigation, after striking JFK in the back, the 6.5mm copper-jacketed bullet entered Governor Connally’s chest and wrist.
On the other hand, Bullets react erratically when they hit their intended targets. In various positions, JFK and Connally sat together. According to research, the evidence confirms the single bullet explanation and that no “magic” was engaged in any way at all (Haag 345). Two shots fired to the upper back and one to the head sent Kennedy tumbling to the ground, slamming onto Jacqueline Kennedy. He was also shot in the back of the vehicle with Jacqueline Kennedy, his wife, and Texas Governor John B. Connally Jr. Despite Connally’s injuries; he made a complete recovery. Oswald was caught shortly after killing Tippit Oswald was caught in the back.
The CIA, the government, and the secret service appeared to be keeping secrecy on what happened on that particular day. The original JFK autopsy report was burned, and as a consequence of the evidence being destroyed, there is a lack of information in the record (Haag 340). In 1992, Congress established a review committee to examine previously classified information on John F. Kennedy’s assassination (Haag 340). According to the head of the National Archives Special Access, Martha Murphy, the release of the materials was not guaranteed (Corsi). Even though the 1992 JFK Records Act directed that the files be made public after 25 years, the federal organizations that generated them asked the president to keep them private.
Many experts, like the legions of JFK conspiracy theorists, were concerned that the CIA’s covert front corporations and the CIA psychological operations expert’s role accused of deceiving the investigators at congress about the alleged assassin would be revealed. The public has never seen around 3,600 of the 40,000 documents (Corsi). According to Murphy, they have been “fully withheld” to protect “security sensitive” information and individual privacy, tax information, and information from grand jury proceedings (Corsi). Some of the most intriguing and disputed figures in American espionage history may be found in the secret CIA files, including those accused of participating in CIA assassination operations worldwide.
Jack Ruby abandoned his puppy in the backseat of his car. This act bears into the motives of the drama’s central characters and examines if an event in history occurred due to a sudden whim. Jack Ruby, the proprietor of a Dallas strip club, adored pets. On November 24, 1963, Sheba accompanied Ruby as he drove into Dallas for errands. His primary objective, according to Ruby, was to send money to a needy stripper in his company. He then headed to the Dallas Police Department’s adjoining headquarters (Corsi). He testified that he was extremely emotional at the time of Kennedy’s assassination and cried in the drive-in when he saw wreaths by the side of the road.
Ruby walked down the slope leading to the police garage around 11:20 a.m. local time and nobody bothered him. He found out that the crowd assembled there saw Lee Harvey Oswald’s transfer to the nearby county jail. In his account, he shot and assassinated Oswald, thereby eliminating the chance of the world hearing his testimony by Oswald (Storing). “That is all I am aware of. I was carrying a handgun in my right hip pocket when I noticed him, and that is all I have to say” (Storing). Ruby said to the Warren Commission and added that he could not care less about what happened to him.
The dog in the truck is critical evidence that backs the assertions made by Ruby. Ruby would never leave Sheba alone, according to this notion. When officials located the car and the dog, they made arrangements for the dog to be picked up and taken to animal protection (Storing). The fact that Ruby most definitely would not have approved the act of the officials to take the dog to animal protection implies that his desires solely drove Ruby’s actions and that there were no mafia connections or money from Cuba (Storing). Perhaps Oswald was disheartened by his inability to reconcile with his ex-wife, and He had a rifle ready in the garage when the president passed by.
In conclusion, this paper has evaluated the assassination of JFK which is the biggest murder mystery in history. JFK’s assassination occurred on November 22, 1963 during his political campaigns as he sought for re-election. The incidence occurred in a political rally where he succumbed to a gunshot from one of the gun-members This paper has also discussed the aspect that the gunman was not alone, the same magic bullet shot both JFK and Governor Connally, and the CIA, the government, and the secret service kept as a secret that day’s happenings. Oswald is believed to have shot both JFK and the governor Connally with three bullets. However, conspiracy theorists have a reason to believe that Oswald did not shoot the duo alone but had help. The CIA and secret service realized that the last JFK file could embarrass them and decided to keep the files in secrecy.
Works Cited
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Storing, Thurman Lee. “In Search of Veritas: Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories and the Emergence of an American Culture of Suspicion, 1963-1993.” (2019).