President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22nd 1963 at 12:30 p.m in the Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. John Kennedy had many people with reason to kill him and in the leading six months to his death he received over 400 threats, a few of which were serious enough to change his security routine. Ultimately president Kennedy was shot in the head and throat with three bullets in his open topped car by Lee Harvey Oswald but the question that still remains today is who hired Oswald to kill JFK. The Mafia John Fitzgerald Kennedy murder may have been organized by the new Orleans mafia boss Carlos Marcello. The motive would be that despite the mafia’s major role in Kennedy getting elected, the president had Marcello deported just after he entered into office.
Who Killed Kennedy? I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald could have killed President Kennedy. Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald owned the rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository on Friday afternoon, November 22, 1963. At about 12:40 p.m., Oswald boarded a city bus but (probably due to heavy traffic) he requested a transfer from the driver and got off two blocks later.
Seven percent of conspiracy-loving Americans blame the Central Intelligence Agency for Kennedy's death. After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961, Kennedy and the CIA were on rough terms, leading conspiracy-minded individuals to suspect the CIA retaliated by having the president killed. CIA conspiracies often overlap with mob conspiracies because of revelations that the agency worked with organized crime on its Castro schemes. * The Cubans were also a popular candidate for conspiring on the President’s life. The American government made numerous attempts at killing the infamous Fidel Castro, but it is believed that Castro got to JFK first.
One shot entered his upper back, penetrated his neck, and exited his throat. (9) Lee Harvey Oswald was captured less than two hours after the assassination for allegedly killing a police officer, later that evening he was charged with the murder of President Kennedy and Mr. Tippit the police officer. (6) Oswald's case never made it to trial because two days later, while being transferred to Dallas County Jail, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. The official investigation was established by President Johnson on November 29th 1963, exactly one week after the assassination.
Xavier Durham 3-24-13 LBJ and The JFK Assassination Mr. McCrystal US His II LBJ vs. JFK: The Assassination In November of 1963, the loved, effective, attractive, and quite young President John F. Kennedy was shot it the head while driving in his motorcade through the streets of Dallas. In September of 1964, after a ten-month investigation, the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone when he shot Kennedy and that Jack Ruby was also acting alone in the shooting of Oswald. However, in polls from 1966 on, it was found that over 80 percent of Americans believed that there was a some sort of conspiracy other than the single shooter theory that caused the death of President JFK. One of these many believed conspiracies is that Vice President Lynden B. Johnson was involved in the death of the President. This theory is not as totally outlandish as it may initially seem.
This evidence can be supported by the fatal wounds suffered by Kennedy, as well as the non-fatal wounds suffered by Governor Connally. However, there have been a number of witnesses who have testified that they heard multiple shots, 3 to 4, fired that fateful day. Five days after the assassination, on November 27, 1963, the recently sworn-in President, Lyndon B. Johnson, establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. Ten months later, on September 24, 1964, the Warren Commission produces an 888-page report with their findings on the JFK assassination and presents it to LBJ. Three days after the report is received by LBJ, it is made public.
Kuo stated that Simmons was sane and capable of standing trial. Simmons first trial lasted six hours and he was convicted May 12, 1988. On May 16, 1988 the judge sentenced Simmons to death by “lethal injection” , plus 147 years. Simmons was found guilty of fourteen counts of murder in the deaths of his family. After questioning followed with some evidence Simmons lashed out at a man by the name of Bayum, punching him in the face, and struggling to get a deputy’s handgun.
On Friday, November 22, 1963, president John F Kennedy was in Dallas Texas with his wife, Jackie, for a parade ride with the governor of Texas, John Connally. At around 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time, shots were fired at the president’s motorcade striking the president several times in the neck and head and wounding the governor. A few hours later, President John F Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was pronounced dead at the age of 46. The news of JFK’s assassination shocked the world and was a great blow to our country. Later, the United States House Select Committee on assassinations set off a 10-month investigation called the Warren Commission.
In this essay it will be argued that indeed the Cuban Missile Crisis was the point of highest tension during the Cold War and also that Kennedy benefited the most from the outcome as opposed to Khrushchev who was the leader of the USSR. Firstly the Cuban Missile Crisis began on the 16th October 1962 when an American U2 spy plane photographed Soviet missiles sites in Cuba. The fact that the USSR had responded to appeals for help from Cuba following the Bay of Pigs invasion was a large problem for the USA and straight away increased the tensions of the Cold War. It was an issue because Cuba was lead by Castro, a communist who had already overthrown the pro- American government in 1961 and so he was motivated to possibly harm the United States of America and working with Khrushchev gave him the means to do so. Furthermore Cuba was only 90 miles off the coast of America, which meant these missiles, particularly the long-ranged weapons could reach major American cities.
The death penalty was used for the most treasonist crimes. In Points of View The Death Penalty it states,“The first execution in the American colonies took place in Virginia in 1608 when George Kendall was accused of espionage .” . (Issit and Newton 1).The first man was killed on the charges of being a spy for another country.They killed because he could of gave government secrets away.In the 1970s there a group of people said that the death penalty was not fair becasue goverment did make a fair meaning or way for the death penalty.In the Points of View The Death Penalty it says“In 1972, the abolitionist movement took its case to the federal court system, claiming that the government was unable to provide for fair implementation of capital punishment.”(Issit and Newton 1) . Abolitionist wanted to remove capital punishment as it was being used unfairly. The government use the death penalty to scare criminals as they can see what their fate will be if the do the crime .