The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, alone, killed President Kennedy and Officer Tippitt, and that Jack Ruby, alone, killed Oswald. There was a powerful case produced by the F.B.I.’s investigation, showing that Oswald had the means, motive and opportunity to kill President Kennedy, which the Warren Commission heavily relied on. However, other reasons for the Warren Commission were to reassure the American public that there was no Soviet or Cuban involvement in J.F.K.’s death. If the American public believed otherwise, a nuclear war may have evolved, given that the Assassination occurred in the middle of the Cold War, only one year after the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Warren Commission subsequently concluded: “There is no credible evidence of a conspiracy, foreign or domestic.”
The evidence used against Lee Harvey Oswald consisted of the following:
- Oswald studied Marxism. The dictionary definition of Marxism is “state socialism.” Oswald was a known Communist sympathiser, who disliked Capitalism and wanted to be a revolutionary. Kennedy was a Capitalist, hence, giving Oswald a motive. He trained as a Marksman while serving in the marines from 1956-1959.
- He spent two and a half years as a defector (1959-1962) in the U.S.S.R.
- He had been involved with Pro-Castro groups when he returned to the U.S.A in 1962.
- He had ordered the murder rifle and a handgun through a post office box under the alias A. Hidel.
- There was a photograph of Oswald with the rifle and revolver (see next page).
- He had used the rifle in an unsuccessful attempt to kill a right-wing general, Edwin Walker, in April 1963 (the year in which The Oswald family moved from Fort Worth to New Orleans); hence proving that he was capable of murder.
- Oswald was known to have had personal difficulties. His marriage to Marina, nee Marina Prusakova, was failing. He had a series of dead end jobs. Neither the U.S.S.R. nor Castro’s Cuba wanted him.
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Oswald began work in the depository only five weeks before the murder on the 16th October.
- Oswald would have known Kennedy’s route as this had been displayed in the newspapers (a diagram of this route is also in closed overleaf).
10. Oswald had arrived at work on the morning of the murder carrying a long package, which could have contained the murder rifle. The murder rifle, with three cartridges, was left on the sixth floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository after the murder took place. Palm and finger prints on the rifle were then identified as Oswald’s. The bullet that was then found in Parkland Hospital was proved to match Oswald’s rifle
11. Oswald was the only employee of the depository to leave the building. When questioned, he could give no alibi for his whereabouts at the time of the murder.
12. There were several eye witnesses who identified Oswald as the killer of Tippit, 46 minutes after Kennedy’s murder.
- Oswald was found to have false identification in the name of Hidell, after being arrested. He could not explain this.
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There was “no credible evidence” to show that Oswald was put up to the murder by the mafia, pro-castro groups, the C.I.A. or anyone else, or that Ruby acted on anything else other than impulse by killing Oswald. However, it is also important to remember that Oswald’s murder on the 24th November meant that no-one was ever tried for killing Kennedy. The F.B.I’s powerful case was never tested in court.
- Due to the fact that there was only time (using the Zaprvder film for reference) for Oswald to have fired three shots over eight seconds from the Texas Schoolbook Depository; the Warren Report supported “the Single Bullet Theory”. Kennedy and Connolly were hit simultaneously. Either they were hit by the same bullet or they were shot by different gunmen.
In conclusion, it is believed that the first shot fired missed. The second shot, fired three seconds later, went through Kennedy’s neck, exited at his throat, deflected off Connolly’s ribs, fractured his wrist and wounded his thigh. The same bullet was then found, relatively intact, on a stretcher in Parkland Hospital. The third shot, four seconds later, hit the back of Kennedy’s head, causing a fatal wound.
If this is true, then there could not have been a “Grassy Knoll” gunman, ruling out the possibility of a conspiracy and meaning that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting on his own, assassinated President Kennedy.
