Who Was Responsible For Jfk Assassination

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President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the united states of America, He belonged to the democratic party and by 1963 had been in office for 3 years. At age 43 he was relatively young and projected an image of Charm, wit, good-humor and intelligence, many people all over the world saw him as an inspiration. This however, was not such a common thought among some of Americas states. They believed he was too soft on communism. It was ironically, that in Americas southern state, Texas in Dealy Plaza that JFK was assassinated. This took place at 12.30 pm on the 22nd of November 1963 during his campaign for a second term. It was only 80 minutes later that a man named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested by the police in a cinema close by, for the assassination of the president. Oswald however, claimed he was innocent, just a "patsy", but no official interview was documented and only 2 days later, before a trial could take place, Oswald was shot in the stomach by infamous jack ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner who has connections with the mafia. A long 10 months passed by until the Warren Commission, an official report…show more content…
They all had a motive to kill him, and both the mafia and Cuban exiles were against Castro because of him being a communist leader and Kennedy because of his high tolerance for communism. When Fidel Castro took over Cuba the anti-castros were not happy, they didn't like the spread of communism in their country, and the mafia lost their gambling interests in Cuba, which was a massive loss of income. When Kennedy didn't step in to turn the situation around it was said that Carlos Marcello, a very powerful mafia boss, was determined to have Kennedy

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