...Course Project CRMJ 430: Crime Scene Investigation JFK Assassination 1 JFK Assassination: Introduction November 22, 1963 is considered one of the darkest days in the history of the United States. Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas was the setting for one of the most horrific moments ever captured on video, in what has become one of the most controversial topics in US history. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy has raised many theories about what exactly happened that day in the fall of 1963. Many wonder if the lone gunmen theory published by The Warren Commission is the truth, or better yet was even possible? Other questions such as why was certain evidence overlooked and in the case of the President’s limousine and clothing, why were they washed and repaired before the proper investigation could be performed on them? Many books have been written on the subject of the JFK assassination, and I in fact would have to end up writing a book just to mention and discuss all of them. Simply to avoid that, I chose to discuss only a few topics and give my own two cents on what could have been done better to investigate the assassination of the 35th President of the United States. I first want to focus on the mishandling of critical evidence that many experts say would easily answer certain questions. For example the mishandling of evidence that might have proven that there was more than one shooter, and where exactly the shots came from. Second, I want to look at how...
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...JFK Assassination: Are the Conspiracies Accurate? In 1976, the US Senate ordered a fresh inquiry into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was murdered in 1963 during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas while campaigning for re-election. People who had been involved in the original Warren Commission investigations were asked to make fresh statements. The FBI and the CIA were persuaded to release more of their documents on Oswald. New lines of inquiry were opened and individuals who had not previously given evidence were persuaded to come forward. Most important of all, pieces of evidence such as photos and sound recordings were subjected to scientific analysis using the most up-to-date methods and equipment. The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) completed their investigation in 1979 and they finally came to a discrete verdict that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at Kennedy, one of which killed the president. A fourth shot was fired from the grassy knoll, which was contradictory to the statement printed by the Warren Commission 16 years earlier. However, the HSCA could not determine who the second gunman was, and how he was in relation to Oswald. If the Warren Committee had been thorough and not corrupt the first time, the second investigation would never have been necessary. However, because of government negligence and corruption, we still to this day do not know who really killed President Kennedy. The public became more interested in the...
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...shortest presidencies in American history. The thirty-fifth president is well known for his assassination, bringing an end to his already short presidency. He lived a short life, brutally murdered at forty-six. When people think of Mr. Kennedy, most would think of his assassination, and the horrible rumors that were told about him. Early life and childhood: John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. He was one of nine children. Politics: John F. Kennedy had a democratic worldview. One of Mr. Kennedy’s primary concerns was the potential of a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union, that, luckily did not end up taking place. President Kennedy lived up to his famous quote, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” By creating the Peace Corps, where American Citizens are able to volunteer all over the world. JFK was also avid in helping with the journey to space. "No nation which expects to be the leader of other...
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...The John F. Kennedy Assassination On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder. It is believed that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the only one involved with the crime. There are countless theories on how President Kennedy was murdered. Some of the theories include the FBI, CIA, and the mob being involved. The Warren commission said that they believe that it was solely Lee Harvey Oswald who killed President Kennedy. Most of the evidence shows that Lee Harvey Oswald could not be the only one involved. John F. Kennedy was the fourth United States President to be assassinated. Even today, there remains tremendous debate on who was responsible for the murder of Kennedy. The assassination of President Kennedy has started many different conspiracy theories about who was involved with the murder. President Kennedy wanted to travel to Dallas, Texas to help strengthen his vote for the upcoming election and also to gain more Democratic Party members. Before Kennedy went on the trip there was some concern about a sniper being on top of a building. President Kennedy also made comments before he was killed about his safety in a convertible car. The car President Kennedy was driving in was a 1963 Lincoln Continental open top limo. Sergeant Davis of the Dallas police department was the one who made sure the city was secure whenever any President or foreign leader came to Dallas. The secret service agent who...
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...The Assassination of J. F. K. Ronald J. Conti Professor: Kathy Hartwell Mountain State University Spring 2012 Abstract This paper is going to tell of mainly the assassination of, President John F. Kennedy. It will give a brief description of his early and later life, his time in the senate, his presidency, and finally his assassination. To get some of the information on the afternoon of the assassination, one can go to youtube.com. They have some really good videos. Some of them are theories and some are actual footage. It truly was a very sad day for his family, and for the rest of the country. There are various conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination, but what is written in this paper may only go along with one of them. The Assassination of J. F. K. John F. “Jack” Kennedy was born on, May 29, 1917, to Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy. As siblings go, John was the second eldest of nine children. John’s father was the first chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and, later, an ambassador to London. John is the second son of four boys born to Joseph and Rose. Rose is the eldest child to, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a prominent Boston political figure, who was the city's mayor, and a three-term member of Congress. During John’s childhood, he had been very ill, and had been given the last rights, five times; the first time, was when he was a newborn. He was born to an Irish-Catholic family, to which had nine children;...
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...Assassination of JFK Imagine the huge impact the world would have if one important person, that affected society, was killed. Well, in history the 35th U.S president was assassinated November 22, 1963 and the world was tumbling down as everyone was in shock/great grief. This man’s name was John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK was considered a great leader because he had strong goals: He wanted to change America. Yes, it’s true all presidents want to change the world, but Kennedy was different because he thought very differently and had unique goals that seemed almost impossible. His two main goals that he tried to achieve, that made this assassination unjust was: He supported the Civil Rights Movement and wanted equal rights for everyone, he also wished that there would be peace everywhere and wanted America to spread peace. But, he did receive hate from others because of some of the bad decisions he made. John F. Kennedy had a vivid image for America being equal. “JFK represented a symbol of hope for the underserved and grossly overlooked citizens.” (Gomez 1). When he became the president,...
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...|The Assassination of a President | | The Assassination of President Kennedy | | | | | | | | | In 1963 a lot of events happened, like the earthquake that destroyed a village in Libya, Iron man deputes in the Marvel Comic Books, and the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The Assassination of President Kennedy happened on Friday, November 22 at 12:30 p.m. during a motorcade. The Motorcade was carrying the president to a Luncheon speech at the Trade Mart that was when the shot was fired. One shot was fired and that bullet did a lot of damage, it hit the president and the Governor of Texas. The bullet entered into President Kennedy’s head, and the same bullet hit the governors lower back, damaged the vertebrae, and the right lung. After the shooting they fled the president...
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...Many people believe that the memorandum requesting a top-secret level government conspiracy cover-up in which Assistant Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach signed three days after President Kennedy was assassinated, leaves beyond reasonable doubt. Here is a quote from the memorandum: “It is important that all of the facts surrounding President Kennedy's Assassination be made public in a way which will satisfy people in the United States and abroad all that the facts have been told and a statement to this effect be made now. . . . And further: I think this objective may be satisfied by making public as soon as possible a complete and thorough FBI report on Oswald and the assassination. . . . And finally: I think, however, that a statement...
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...So JFK was traveled through the Dallas streets in a motorcade. There was a guy in a building who shot John F. Kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald killed him based on the Secret service FBI Dallas Police Department and the Warren Commission Report. Lee Harvey Oswald Her borned on october 18, 1939, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a marxist and ex-marine who assassinated John F. Kennedy. He killed him with two shots in the head from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository while the president traveled by the motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. He used an alias “A. Hidell for a mail order for the rifle he used, it was a 6,5 mm caliber carcano, he also did purchase a .38 smith and wesson model 10 revolver by the same way. While kennedy’s motorcade was going through the Dealey Plaza at 12:30 pm, on november 22, Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the building he was on. Some investigations says that Lee hid and covered the rifle with boxes after the fired happened and got out through the rear stairwell. Lee had years of rifle practice in the Marine Corps Secret Service FBI Dallas Police Department This departament tried to follow Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination because he was...
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...November 22, 1963. The assassination has been questioned to this day about whether or not the assassination was unjust or justified. The assassination of JFK was justified because he caused the Cuban Missile Crisis and The Bay of Pigs invasion; however, others believe differently about his actions. Kennedy’s assassination was justified because of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The United States provoked the Soviet Union into what could have been nuclear war. Before JFK placed the nuclear missiles in Turkey, Nikita Khrushchev, a Soviet Premier, placed missiles in...
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...During his trial Ruby pleaded innocent but the jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death. In January 1967, while waiting on his new trial Ruby died of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital. Conspiracy theories have risen since John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas Texas. Did a Secret Service Agent Kill JFK by Accident? This theory developed suggested that a Secret Service agent in the car right behind President Kennedy fired his rifle by accident, hitting JFK in the head. After carefully investigating it is a proven fact that JFK was shot from behind but by Oswald rifle. It would have been impossible for George Hickey [secret service agent] to shoot him and nobody around hickey to notice. The conspiracy theory was just that a theory. Most of the evidence supported by this theory was given by Howard Donahue in the seventies. Howard Donahue was a Baltimore gunsmith who's evidence went into a book called mortal error. All of Howard's evidence focused on the final shoot to the presidents brain. At the end of his investigation Howard conclude that George Hickey accidentally...
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...Cuba’s Involvement in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy On 22 November 1963, America encountered a rude awakening. The thirty fifth, beloved Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. A swarm of questions, allegations, conspiracies tainted the once purified air of the American society. Americans reckoned that the government would shed the light on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, the government failed to deliver information that would alleviate the anxiety of American citizens. The failure of the government to mollify the anxiety of the American citizens led many Americans to become “skeptical of the government ability to tell the truth” (Shenon “50 Years after the Warren Report the respectable JFK conspiracy...
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...Oswald was a former US marine who had previously attempted, unsuccessfully, to surrender to Soviet Union. He lived in the Soviet Union till June 1962. He also have taken a $435.71 million loan from the State Department before moving to the States Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn as the 36th president of the United States only two hours after the assassinations where the former first lady was also spotted still dressed in clothes stained in her husband’s blood. The biggest mystery that surrounds the death of John F. Kennedy is whether Oswald acted alone or was he just a pawn that was killed to keep the real people behind the assassination safe. There are many theories about his assassination however there are three major ones including involvement of mafia, Cuba and CIA. There as well was a poll conducted by 2003 ABC News which resulted in 70% of Americans believing that the president’s death was a result of a broader...
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...I think Oswald was apart of a bigger conspiracy because there was four shots from different directions and there is no way Oswald could have reloaded his gun that fast to shot JFK that many times. One example is some people saw some smoke coming from the field behind them after JFK was shot a second time. Another example is Oswald couldn’t have reload his gun fast enough to shoot JFK that fast. Also 60 seconds after the shooting, a policeman found Oswald was in the lunchroom two floors down from where the shots came from, eating lunch and acting like nothing nothing happened. Who would be sitting in the lunchroom when the president was right outside! Another reason is a woman named Beverly saw a person in the field surrounded by smoke she took...
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...1. What are the major claims/conclusions? Where can you find them stated? To begin, Olmsted claims that at the time of the Kennedy assassination “76 percent of the public trusted the government to “do what is right most of the time.”(p.672) She then claims that researches of the Kennedy assassination “not only believed that government officials had conspired, lied, and covered up aspects of the murder; they also believed that they could expose this conspiracy on their own”(p.672) These “researches’ were made up amateurs, who questioned the government role in the assassination. Olmsted then states that historian have paid little attention to the “grassroots network of amateurs who raised the first doubts.” Olmsted believes these people are responsible for our cultures current outlook on the government (p.672) Then, the author claims that the government deliberately avoided further investigation of the...
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