Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination

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“Who killed the president?” The question so many have asked before. John F Kennedy was shot and killed on Nov 22, 1963. Was it solely by Lee Harvey Oswald? His accused assassin and the truth to this tragedy were silenced forever when Jack Rubenstein shot and murdered Lee Harvey Oswald (the probable assassin) on live television. Was Russia involved? Was it part of underworld crime and the mafia? Was it the government in an attempt to get a new leader that would bend more freely to the individual wills of politicians? Or, could it have simply been a lone gunman with a terrible past and an even worse mental stability? No one will ever know for certain because the answers have been buried with Lee Harvey Oswald. When Kennedy was running to be…show more content…
His father died before he was born, which left him and his brothers and his mother Marguerite alone to live the lower middle-class life. His mother was consumed with depression and self-pity from her husband's death and her unfortunate position. Marguerite was forced to go back to work and make money for the family. According to Robert Oswald, (Lee’s brother) their mother was a very controlling and angry woman who was difficult to live with if she didn't get her way. He felt no motherly love. Because Marguerite couldn't hold onto her job very long and her life was full of chaos after her husband's death, she committed her two oldest sons to the local orphanage. Lee Harvey was kept because he was too young to admit at the time. While his brothers were in an orphanage, Oswald spent time with nannies, different family members, housekeepers, and babysitters. The day after his third Christmas, he was admitted to the same orphanage as well. Their life at the orphanage was anything but exciting, but with three meals a day and a roof over their heads, it was all right. Lee’s mother had a hard time holding onto a job and in 1944 she moved to Dallas with her sons for work, and for his mother's new romantic interest: Edwin Ekdahl. Later that year, the two married and again sent the two older boys off, this time to military boarding school. This left Lee and his new parents to travel around the country on business trips with…show more content…
There were not very many changes to Americans everyday lives. Feelings towards national security were changed. Many people suspected the Soviet Union to be responsible or involved in the assassination, so they were more aware of the Soviet's actions. Also, it raised tensions between them and us, heightening the Cold War. It was a rough time to lose a President, which made it more plausible Oswald was not working alone. The Cold War was underway and the loss of an American President would give the Russians and Cubans the upper hand in winning the war. Also, Kennedy was a supporter of the Civil Rights Act, which made it illegal to discriminate. This could have set fire to an assassination plot led by an angry racist. Other foreign policy issues that could have contributed to the notion the government was behind the assassination are the Bay of Pigs, and the Vietnam
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