Few people knew what events the day held on November 22, 1963, but by mid-afternoon one of the most tragic events to ever plague not only the United States but the entire world. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy would go on to be one of the most infamous days in history; surrounded in scandals, controversy, and conspiracy.
There were three main reasons that the president was in Dallas, Texas. One of those reasons being his mission of reelection. Another reason was to raise more Democratic Party presidential campaign funds for the November 1964 presidential election. Finally to build up his relationships with fighting democratic parties within Texas where the Kennedy-Johnson ticket had barely won in 1960, and especially in Dallas where he had lost the vote (Historymania, Para 1). Air Force One came to a landing in Dallas Love Field at 11:39 on the morning of November 22, 1963; only a few minutes behind schedule. This did not detour the anxious citizens who wanted to see the president, some giving him gifts such as charcoal portraits, while others gathered with signs of protest over what they believed to be questionable doings in office. Regardless Kennedy continued toward his motorcade shaking the hands of the citizens of Dallas through and over a chain-link fence that separated him from the public (Bishop, 123,126).
At the same time President Kennedy was shaking hands with the public a man by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald was going about a peculiar series of events, which no one thought to be out of character for a man with his level of social detachment. Oswald wrote, “I was the son of insurance agent whose early death left a far mean streak of independence brought on by neglect.” It seemed as t...
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President Kennedy, A.K.A. JFK, was in Texas to gain support for his re-election. Kennedy came to Texas accompanied by his wife and Vice President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. The purpose of his trip was to heal a split in the Texas Democratic Party before the 1964 presidential campaign in which Kennedy planned to run for a second term. Dallas had a reputation as a center for people who strongly opposed Kennedy.
President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas ("Death of a PRESIDENT." New York Times Upfront).
President John F. Kennedy, “was one of the most powerful, glamorous, wealthy, charismatic individuals on the planet,” when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963 (Von Drehle). Americans living during the 1960’s never imagined that their beloved President would meet such an untimely and gruesome end, and his unexpected death changed the course of American history forever. Despite Kennedy’s seemingly god-like power and universal influence, an individual no American had previously heard of killed him within seconds. Although the US Government deemed Lee Harvey Oswald the sole assassin, “Fifty years after JFK'S assassination, conspiracy theories still haunt the national psyche” (Von Drehle). At the time of his death, most Americans doubted the conclusion that only one individual was involved in the assassination, and this suspicion still exists: “61 percent of Americans still believe that other people besides gunman Lee Harvey Oswald were involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy” (Waxman). The effects of Kennedy’s assassination were monumental, and his suspicious death began the era of conspiracy theories, leaving many Americans distrustful of the US Federal Government.
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On a warm, sunny November day in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated through what still remains to be a mystery. President Kennedy’s motorcade rode through the Dealey Plaza at 12:30 pm when three shots were fired from Lee Harvey Oswald in a Depository building severely injuring President Kennedy and wounding Governor Connally. President Kennedy was transported to Dallas Parkland Hospital where he was pronounced officially dead thirty minutes later. The cold hand of Lee Harvey Oswald also murdered Officer J.D. Tippit because Officer Tippit recognized Oswald. Oswald was eventually arrested by Dallas police and brought to a more secure Dallas jail. After he had made his way into the secure basement, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby who shot him out of anger that he killed John F. Kennedy. On November 23, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was killed, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in to be the Next President of the United States. There are many conspiracy theories about the JFK Assassination, but one is that the CIA murdered John Fitzgerald Kennedy because of his radical ideas at the time.
Thomas, Evan. "Who Shot JFK?." Newsweek. Sept. 6 1993: 14-17. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 09 Apr. 2014.
John F. Kennedy’s assassination has been a mystery since it happened in 1993. John F. Kennedy was shot in a moving car in Dallas, Texas. The murder surprised the nation in a time of peace and calmness, It was also “... the first time the vivid immediacy of such acts was brought into the homes of millions” (“The Warren
While researching the Kennedy assassination there were many articles, saying that the mob was involved in the shooting. The writers were convinced that there was more than one person involved when it came too killing John Kennedy, on that warm sunny day in downtown Dallas. However, while these authors were convinced that there was another party involved, so was the rest of America with eighty percent saying the report was false. The goal of this paper is to bring this topic into the spotlight once more, by connecting the shooting of the president with the mob, and Lee Harvey Oswald.