The Loss of a President

The Loss of a President

On November 22, 1963 at 12:30 P.M., the 35th President of the United States,

John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed while riding through the streets of Dallas, Texas in

an open limousine with wife Jackie Kennedy, and Governor John Connally. This single

event in history has created more controversy than any other. Still today, more than 27

years after the shooting, there is still speculation as to who killed John F. Kennedy.

Today, so many possible theories remain, it is hard to determine what actually happened.

Today many people believe that it was Lee Harvey Oswald that killed JFK. They believe

that he was just a “lone nut” acting out of his own feelings, and he was not influenced by anyone else. Many others believe there was a conspiracy set up by the CIA to kill

President Kennedy, and others believe that it was Communist Russians. In my paper I will

try to explain some of the theories as clear as possible, and let you decide for yourself

what you believe happened November 22, 1963.

If Lee Harvey Oswald was not the assassin as thought, who else would possibly want the president dead?

The Mafia

Anti-Castro Cubans

The CIA

Communist Russians.

When John F. Kennedy became president, he had many great ambitions. He wanted to

pull more troops out of Vietnam and lessen the war effort, cut back on organized crime,

end the Cuban Missile Crisis, and limit the power of the CIA. With these ambitions it is

no surprise he made so many new enemies, some even being in the US government itself.

Many of these new enemies he had found were very powerful, and would stop at nothing

to see his new ways come to an end, even if it meant killing him.

Shortly after the incident, the government founded the Warren Commission, and a

government investigation began on the assassination. The Warren Commission was a

group made of “outstanding citizens” to "ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts

relating to the assassination ... and the subsequent violent death of the man charged with the assassination Lee Harvey Oswald.” The Commission was instructed by the

government to examine evidence brought forth to them by the FBI (Federal Bureau of

Investigation), or and any other organization or person. With the examination of the

evidence, the Commission was then to make a decision on exactly what occurred that day.

In under a week the Commission was able to come to the conclusion that Lee