Lee Harvey Oswald's Report: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy

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Lee Harvey Oswald GUILTY! What happened? On the 22nd November 1963, President Kennedy’s life was brutally taken away by Lee Harvey Oswald, during an open top motorcade drive through downtown Dallas. What was the warren report? After the horrific death of John F. Kennedy, his deputy, Lyndon B. Johnson, was appointed president of the United States of America. He immediately set up a commission to ‘as certain’ evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late president John F. Kennedy. The seven man commission was headed by Chief Justice, Earl Warren and included Gerald Ford, Allen W Dulles, John J. McCloy, Richard B. Russell, John S. Cooper and Thomas H. Boggs. The 500+ page warren report was soon produced, claiming…show more content…
He didn’t have friends, because he was constantly moving school, he was classed as a ‘loner’. He was also very unsociable. These things affected him later in life. Oswald soon joined the US Marines, just to get away from his mother and his past. However things didn’t improve during his time there. He lacked social skills and his past damaged him mentally a lot. No one liked him very much; he didn’t get alone with anyone very well. This also made him a bit aggressive towards other people. However during his stay at the Marines, he gained a few skills, for e.g. he learnt how to shoot accurately from long distances. This moves me onto m first point, Source 8 – ‘On one scorecard he hit a head-and-shoulder sized target 49 out of 50 times from a distance of 200 yards, without a telescopic sight. He shot Kennedy from less than 100 yards with a rifle that had a telescopic sight.’ For Oswald to shoot so accurately at a distance is astonishing, Oswald must of had a really steady hand and good concentration. With his shooting without a telescopic sight is an amazing skill. He must have really taken in all that training from the Marines seriously. It proves that Oswald was capable of

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