agents. The major fact that alarms Americans is that the Warren Commission
who
investigated the assassination is that they were very single minded and
seemed to have no
other theories about the assassination. The commission were also criticized
because they
couldn’t really prove it was Oswald or get a confession out of him. The
Warren
commission believe that the assassination was carried out by a lone gunman,
namely Lee
Harvey Oswald. However another investigation into the assassination by the
House Select
Committee was carried out a number of years later because there was still
public disbelief
that Oswald was a lone gunman. The committee called witnesses to hear their
version of
the events, and in the end ruled that there could have been another assassin,
possibly
situated in the grassy knoll. Some points to raise into this matter are that
the secret service
agents were never found, even after a substantial investigation, could it
have been a cover
up? Another point to raise is over the witnesses, several witnesses died
under mysterious
circumstances before they could give their version of events. The largest
point to raise is
Oswalds? claim that he was a patsy ( he was framed ). Could crucial eye -
witnesses have
been assassinated to stop them from speaking out, could one of them held a
vital clue to
solve the mystery.
In conclusion to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as a person, as a leader, as the
President
of the United States of America, and most of all as our friend, was very
influential to all of
us. He was born into a family of leaders and politicians, it was his destine
that he would
be a political leader, and he was but not just the United States also for the
whole world.
He created a wonderful family, which also became leaders of today?s world.
He made
many improvements during his three years in office to our nation. He improved
health
care, poverty, civil rights and relations with other countries. He was a
president that really
cared about his country, and the world and did as much as he could to make it
as perfect
as possible. I think that he is the last president that we have had that has
really tried to
improve our country instead of just try to keep it form getting worse. He
dealt with not
just the big issues that existed but also with the smaller issues. I believe
that he is a True
American Hero and should be held in the highest of light for his leadership,
personality,
and accomplishments. I don?t not agree with the ?Single Bullet? theory.
Gun experts even
said that it would have been a very difficult shot to make from the Texas
School Book
Depository. It is almost impossible for it to have only been one bullet. It
is said that the
shots came from behind and above the limousine, which would have made a
bullet whole
in Kennedy that went down, then above that entry wound there was said to have
been and
exit wound, then below that whole it is said that it entered senator Connally
in a
downward direction. This means that this one, single bullet left seven
injuries, the first
downward, the second upwards, the third downwards and the rest downwards. How
can
this be? I don?t think that it is possible. there had to have been more
than one bullet
causing these injuries. I think that there was another person shooting and
they were all
involved in a conspiracy. How do you explain the sounds people heard, the
smoke, the
fake secret service agents, the mysterious bullet that showed up on the
hospital bed? It
can?t be explained if Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I think that Jack Ruby
shot him
because he was part of the conspiracy and got scared and thought that he was
going to
?rat? on them. The only way all of this can be explained is if there are
multiple people
involved in. I?m not sure why there was a conspiracy against him but I
think that it might
have something to do with his civil rights movements or his thoughts of
pulling out from
Vietnam. I think that the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of
the most
tragic events that has happened in our history, partially because of who he
was and also
because we still do not know to this day what really happened.
References
-The Official Warren Commission Report, Doubleday and Company, Inc.,
Garden, N.Y. 1964
- The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, R Conrad Stein, Children?s Press
Chicago, 1992
- The United States History: In the course of human events, West Publishing
Company
1997 pages 868-976
- Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Volume 14; pages, 355-356
Robert S. Phillips
- www.serve.com/shadows/mystery.htm
- www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/