John F. Kennedy Assassination

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the incident of John F. Kennedy's assassination in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on John F. Kennedy's assassination and the diverse conspiracies involved in the assassination. The research also analyzes many aspects of the perceived motives behind Kennedy's assassination. Finally the research describes the involvement of Mafia in John F. Kennedy's assassination and explores diverse facts surrounding the incident.

Table of Contents

Introduction4

Conspiracies Revolving John F. Kennedy's Assassination5

Perceived Motives behind John F. Kennedy's Assassination6

The Involvement of Mafia in Assassination8

Conclusion10

End Notes12

John F. Kennedy Assassination

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten the incident of John F. Kennedy's assassination. This paper aims to explore diverse dimensions revolving assassination of John F. Kennedy; in addition, the paper analyzes different issues and controversies regarding the assassination. Without doubt the most publicized assassination of the 20th century, with a profound impact on public opinion throughout the world, was that of U.S. president John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 P.M., on November 22, 1963, with a rifle belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was an employee of the Texas School Book Depository, and as such he had access to a sixth-floor window that provided a perfect vantage for the sniping. As the motorcade passed, Oswald fired two or three times (according to differing scenarios), killing Kennedy and seriously wounding Texas governor John B. Connally, who was sitting directly in front of the president in the executive limousine.

However, many other observers do not share that ambivalence about the facts; they believe that Oswald was a disturbed assassin acting alone. They tend to accept in large measure the findings of the Warren Commission, set up after Kennedy's assassination, and especially the reconstruction of events, including the commission's declaration that a single bullet hit both Kennedy and Connally. Investigation of Oswald's background produced a picture of a misfit and an apparent on-again, off-again believer in communism. He had received a hardship discharge from the Marines in 1959 because of an injury his mother had suffered, but he did not stay home long to help her. Instead, he traveled to the Soviet Union, where he attempted to give up his American citizenship. When he was notified that his visa would expire and that he had to leave Moscow in two hours, Oswald responded with an apparent suicide attempt.

Conspiracies Revolving John F. Kennedy's Assassination

Some of the conspiracy theorists accepted the new evidence, but many continued to dispute the single-bullet theory. In 1987 the Justice Department at last closed its own inquiry, aligning itself behind the Warren Report, a situation that invited further cries of cover-up. Most new conspiracy claims continue to revolve around the Mafia, a theory backed by G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel to the House panel, in a book, The Plot to Kill the President, written with Richard N. Billings, he started immediately after the issuance of the committee's report at the end of ...