John F. Kennedy’s Assassination: the History and Reflection

John F. Kennedys assassination was, and still is, a difficult unrivalled to understand. On November 22, 1963 chair human race Kennedy was smack twice erstwhile in the rump and step up the pharynx, and another(prenominal) in the brain, with a deuce-ace bullet missing Kennedy. He arrived in Dallas, Texas and started his r come one in an return limo. When the limo glided mint Elm Street, Kennedy was shot. Three shots were heard among the crowd and the electric chair had been fatally wounded. The Zapruder Film captured the assassination. It interpreted Kennedy creation shot as well as the Goernor, Connally.Kennedy was shot through the throat and the governor was hit in the back. not long subsequently that, Kennedy was shot a second cartridge clip, this time in the head/brain. Police searched the ordinal floor of the Book Depository and not only found the spot where the shooter had been, besides also tercet bullet shells and the rifle used to do the job. lee side Har vey Oswald was the murder singular and when Oswald, when pulled over, shot a Police officer four times in that location was little doubt that he had committed the abhorrence. Oswald was yettually found and arrested him in a photograph theatre.He was whence groomn to the Police supply where he was drumheaded, and when he was to be agitatered to another jail (two days after the assassination) he was shot by a man, Jack carmine. Vice chairman John word of honor was then sworn into the Presidency and spoke briefly to the public. more conspiracies bloom from the assassination of whether Oswald worked alone, for mostone, or with someone. John F. Kennedys assassination was a affect one for me. The irony in this assassination follow throughmed to be part of a story. I couldnt reckon that they real had footage of the shooting.The reality of the case was a lot to take in, oddly since that was only around 48 eld ago. It is hard to imagine the paroxysm he mustve been feel ing and the pain his wife was loss through to see her married man struggling to emit and then see his head shot in front of her eyes. My question is how was she able to handle that? To see her husband die right in front of her eyes and not being able to help him. It do me think ab issue how fragile life is, how one second youre happy and content with your life and the next you codt even up have one.Did Mrs. Kennedy have help neutralizeing with the traumatic loss? Did she take precautions more seriously? Did she ever enter into a stage of economic crisis? Mrs. Kennedy was a very strong woman to have lived through her husbands murder in front of her eyes. Robert Oswald was lee(prenominal) Harvey Oswalds comrade and according to him and research Lee had a tough life. Lee didnt grow up with a father and had no friends in his teenager years. He took an interest in communism and would eventually consider himself a Marxist.Lee Harvey Oswald joined the Marine Corps and was superb at his competency in the shooting range. Lee was able to shoot 200 yards onward from a tar larn at 49 turn out of a possible 50 times at an impressing time. Later on he locomote to the Soviet Union where he wanted to join in the Soviet Union agency, only when was rejected. Oswald eventually got a job and found a wife, Marina. Oswald was ambitious to make something of himself and to make himself know, so much so that when he returned to the United States he was expecting promulgateers to be there to cover his return.To his disappointment no one was there. Oswald was an abusive husband, and he also planned on being a political assassin. Wanting to make a mark on history, Lee bought a hand gun as well as a rifle under the name of A. Hiddle. Afterwards he plan on sidesplitting an ex-general, Walker, only didnt succeed when the bullet bounced apart from the intended target off the glass of a window. Marina too Oswald to raw(a) Orleans hoping to calm him down and get his min d off of whatever he was thinking of. To her disappointment, he started handing out leaflets stating, HANDS OFF CUBA and get into fights with Anti-Castro Cubans and got himself arrested. After that he wanted Marina to help him hi-jack a plane to Cuba, and later on Marina left him to go back to Dallas. Lee got a job back in Texas at the Book Depository when the route for the President came out in the papers. Convenient for Lee, the route went passed right where he worked. Lees chance for a address in the history books was there and he took it. The day before he eliminateed Kennedy he left a rail line to his wife with some money saying to make sure his son gets some shoes.November 22, 1963 Lee arrived with the rifle wrapped up in a 38-inch long paper bag. Saying that it was curtain rods, Oswald walked in and awaited the President to pass by. When Oswald shot the deuce-ace shots he fled, killing an officer in the process, and hid in a movie theatre. When he was arrested he was q uestioned and taken to transfer jails when another man by the name of Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. One of my main questions is wherefore Lee Harvey Oswald would leave the rifle, the three shellings, and the paper bag used to cover the rifle, behind.Also, I wonder wherefore he didnt fully think the whole thing through. He shouldve had an escape plan in the ready after the job was done. Many criminals dont miss this step in the planning and it seems standardized Lee didnt even think rough it. It seemed that Lee did this in the spur of the moment, which is a good thing for the officers to unwrap all the indicate left behind, and he didnt full think. Jack Ruby was another man whose life story was a sad one. As one historian said, he was a wannabe never-was. Ruby was known for his questioning temper and his need for importance.Ruby hung around the police and became well known among them. He got close to them to the point where he could come and go in the headquarters as he pl eased. When he heard about Lee and how he had been suspected of killing the president he drove over to the headquarters with his dog in the car and parked a forget from the police HQ. Ruby actually caught Lee by luck, Lee was vatic to be transferred before the time Ruby showed up but wasnt because Lee wanted to change his clothes. As Lee was being walked out Ruby stood out and shot Lee in the gut.Ruby was arrested on the spot. He believed he was an American Hero and that he did the right thing. Because of the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald conspiracies flourished throughout the American nation. I wonder whether or not Ruby premeditated the killing of Lee. Since it said that Ruby was lucky to see Lee there, it got me thinking. If Ruby was heading over there with the intent on killing Lee I thought that he wouldve arrived on time or by the time that Lee was scheduled to be there, not the time that he was already supposed to be gone.If I wanted to kill someone I would make sure that I would show up at the right time where my intended target was going to be, not just show up and catch him by luck. To me I think that it is weird to think that Ruby was planning on killing Lee when he drove up to the headquarters with his dog in the car and showed up at the supposedly wrong time. The rabbit warren electric charge was the investigation of the assassination. There were two goals of the Warren delegating to settle the wit in the U. S. A, and to dispel any rumors of foreign intrigue.Johnson wanted the Warren missionary work to shade before the next election in 1964. The longer the investigation went on, the more conspiracies would thrive. The Warren Commission explored the evidence found at the crime scene. Using the spot where Kennedy and Connally were shot and the trajectory of the bullet, they were able to pin-point the location of the rifleman to the sixth story window of the Book Depository. Fingerprints were found on the paper bag, the boxes, and the place wh ere the rifle was fired that all matched Lee Harvey Oswalds.The bullets that were found in Governor Connallys thigh, Kennedy, and also the miss-fired one, could all be traced back to Oswalds gun, this would leaven that only Oswald was involved in the murder. When the Warren Commission came out to the public, umteen Americans didnt believe it. The fact that the twenty-six volumes some had mistakes, only fueled the conspiracy theories. The public, and the people who worked on the Warren Commission, didnt find out until later that the Kennedy administration was trying to figure out a way to kill Castro.Johnson couldnt help but believe that Castro had something to do with the assassination, and as a result he believed that Kennedy wanted to get Castro, but Castro got him first. The Warren Commission was a smart move I think on Johnsons part, but I think it was manakin of hypocritical. Johnson wanted the Warren Commission to settle mood in the U. SA, but at the same time Johnson was worried. Also the goal of the Warren Commission was to somewhat stop the conspiracies, but yet Johnson had his thoughts of Cubas intervening. I find that somewhat hypocritical. I wanted to know how long it actually took to finish the Warren Report.If it didnt take a lot of time to spell out or investigate than that should account for the mistakes that were found with the report, but those mistakes cannot have a reason unless I was to be there and look at the report for myself. The House Select Committee on the Assassination was appointed by the House to deal with the many an(prenominal) different conspiracies. The Chief Council was G. Robert Blakey. This Committee re-examined the Warren Commission, the evidence and more of the Assassination. When the re-examination was done the Committee only confirmed that Lee Harvey Oswald really was the only killer.They asked Castro if he had anything to do with it and Castro responded that it would have been insanity to kill the President. Alt hough both investigations came up with the same result, many Americans still refused to accept it. Theories about a second shooter in the grassy knoll became popular, especially with a cops microphone recording of what seems to be a fourth shot, not fired by Oswald. This conspiracy was denounced though because the cops position at the time of the shootings was too far from the locations of the firings to be recorded.G. Robert Blakey believed that that the killing of Lee was a mob hit. That someone had to take out Lee to make sure he wouldnt say anything, but if that were true than another person would have to take out Ruby to make sure he wouldnt talk and so on, and that becomes a never-ending cycle. These acoustic findings were soon rejected. It baffles my mind to learn about the many different conspiracies that were and are still around. I cannot fully understand the abstract thought behind the many beliefs about the assassination of JFK.It seems that for every conspiracy that wa s be faulty there were at least two more that took its place. And even those that were denounced people still believe them. I dont know why it is so hard to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only assassin. Perhaps it was a way to cope with the pain back then, but even now many people I know dont know much about the Kennedy Assassination or even care, but when asked about the conspiracies they take a side. Why? Oliver pitfall was a very famous movie director who directed a tear about the assassination of JFK and the Conspiracy theory of Jim place.This movie fueled conspiracy. fort (in history, not the movie) was obsessed with proving a conspiracy. He promoted himself as the only one brave enough to uncover the truth. Jim only put one man on trial, and that was frame Shaw. He never gave an explanation as to why he thought Shaw would conspire to kill Kennedy. When Perry Raymond Russo, Jim Garrisons key witness against Clay Shaw, was faced with a polygraph test, he freaked out , and recanted his testimony saying that he actually didnt see Shaw conspire against Kennedy.When Garrison heard of this he went crazy, but still put Clay Shaw on the stand. The jury found Garrisons claim without a base and threw it out. Unlike the truth, Oliver Stones movie JFK do Garrison look like an American hero. What was Oliver Stones reason to make this film how he made it? In some ways it makes Garrison look like the American hero, but I wonder if that theme was constant throughout the movie as I watched the trailers. In the movie it seems like Garrison is conflict for the truth and fighting for the American people.But is that the real message? other scene I saw was a complete laugh. There was a scene where Garrison (in the movie the actor) was explaining how the bullet that shot Kennedy shot down Kennedys back then shot up through his throat then the bullet curved left then right then into the back of Connally. That whole scene was a questionable moment because greens s ense says that a bullet will not go down, up, left, right, left, and then down again.