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The Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy�November 22, 1963

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JFK’s Inauguration Jan. 20th, 1961 �35th U.S. President

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Democratic President JFK, age 46 and in the third year of his term visits Dallas, Texas on a “good will” tour.

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JFK and wife Jacqueline at Love Field, Dallas

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Texas Governor John Connolly and his wife ride with the Kennedys

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The motorcade route to a speaking engagement at the Trade Mart takes Kennedy through Dealey Plaza

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Dealey Plaza

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The Texas School Book Depository Building

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JFK motorcade approximately 12:30 p.m. Friday Nov. 22, 1963

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Dallas dress maker Abraham Zapruder and the Zapruder Film

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The Triple Underpass on the way to Parkland Hospital

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Kennedy is rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital

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Emergency room efforts are to resuscitate the president

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The Dallas doctors make informal observations of Kennedy’s wounds while trying to resuscitate him

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Lyndon Baines Johnson taking the oath of office aboard Air Force One

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President Kennedy is put aboard Air Force One and flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital for an autopsy

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The same day shooting of Dallas policeman J.D. Tippet�The suspect (fitting Lee Harvey Oswald’s description) flees into a nearby movie theater

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24 year old suspect Lee Harvey Oswald upon arrest

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Oswald in custody

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Oswald obtains a hardship discharge from the marines in 1959

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Oswald was an outspoken Marxist and supporter of Cuba

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Oswald with his Russian wife Marina and child�Oswald had defected to the USSR before returning to the US

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Oswald shot on Sunday by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters

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Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby was suspected to have ties to the mafia/organized crime

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Ruby dies of lung cancer in prison in 1967

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The Warren Commission

  • During his first week in office President Lyndon Baines Johnson created the President's Commission on the assassination of President Kennedy. Led by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission was to determine who was responsible for the assassination of Kennedy and the wounding of Governor Connolly.

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Pres. Johnson receives the Warren Report in 1964

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Key findings of the Warren Commission

  • 1. Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed President Kennedy and wounded Texas Governor John Connolly.
  • 2. Oswald acting alone killed Dallas policeman J.D. Tippet.
  • 3. Three shots were fired from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository Building. One struck the President in the neck passing through and then striking the Governor, one shot missed, one shot was the fatal “head shot” which killed the President.
  • 4. Jack Ruby acting alone shot and killed Oswald.
  • 5. No evidence of conspiracy, foreign or domestic was found.

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Challenges to the Warren Report

  • “Head snap” and timing problem suggesting a second gunman
  • The “Grassy Knoll” evidence
  • Acoustics evidence from police dictabelt suggesting additional shots
  • Conflicting interpretation of the President's wounds between Dallas (Parkland Memorial Hospital) and Bethesda Naval Hospital where the autopsy was performed
  • Trajectory and alignment problems of the bullet paths
  • The pristine condition of the “magic bullet” (exhibit #399) supporting the “single bullet theory”
  • Suspicion of links between Oswald and Ruby
  • Oswald not “lone gunman”, patsy or part of conspiracy

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The “grassy knoll”

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Were there shots fired at the president from the front/the grassy knoll area?

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The sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository Building�where Lee Harvey Oswald was employed

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The view from the “sniper’s nest”

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The murder weapon? A 6.5 mm Italian Mannlicher-Carcano bolt action rifle recovered on the sixth floor.

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Oswald was said to have obtained the rifle from a Chicago mail order house under the name A. Hidell

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Three spent shell casing are discovered on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository building

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The “backyard photos” of Oswald

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Path of the “magic bullet”

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The “magic bullet” in “pristine condition”

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Warren Commission exhibit #399

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Test bullets used as comparisons

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The Head Wound�the moment of impact frame #313 of the Zapruder film

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Was the massive and fatal head wound fired from the front or the rear?�Questions of the “head snap” and timing problems persisted

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Popular conspiracy theories:

  • Oswald working with any of the following:
  • Organized Crime (Mafia)
  • Renegade elements of the CIA and/or Secret Service
  • Pro-Castro Cubans
  • Anti-Castro Cubans
  • The Soviet KGB
  • VP Lyndon Johnson and Texas Oilmen

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JFK’s younger brother Robert (Bobby), the Attorney General�Assassinated in 1968 while seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination

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Mrs. Kennedy and Caroline and John Jr.

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JFK’s grave site at

Arlington National

Cemetery

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