1. There were eye-witnesses that saw Oswald carrying a long brown paper bag on the day of the assassination.
2. The gun that was used to kill President Kennedy belonged to Oswald.
3. Oswald was seen at the scene of the crime.
4. His gun with his palm prints on was found at the scene of the crime. However I think I have alternative explanations to these pieces of evidence.
- Oswald could have been carrying anything, especially since in America they carried everything in brown paper bags.
2. I think Oswald was framed. I think that someone ordered a gun in his name so they weren’t found out because Oswald could have got a gun from anywhere. Why would he order a traceable gun to kill the president with?!
3. Oswald was seen at the scene of the crime because he was in the book depository building before the president was shot. After the shooting Oswald made no attempt to run away. The prosecutors said he ran quickly down from the top floor to flea but there were two workers on the stairs which he would have had to pass, who didn’t see him
4. I think that it was a set-up so that he would get the blame so it would look like it was him. But when the FBI took his gun to check for finger prints they couldn’t find any. It is possible that the government could have got a print from the morgue when he was killed.
If Oswald did commit this crime I think that he didn’t work alone as the third, fatal shot came from in front of the presidents car. Whereas at this time Oswald was behind him.
There were quite a few groups that wanted Kennedy dead. These included the mafia, Jack Ruby and the powerful right wing forces in America. The Mafia did not like him because when his brother became Attorney General they were afraid and angry. They made tape recordings and telephone calls that proved that they wanted the president dead. Jack Ruby the man who killed Oswald had close ties with some of the mafia, just before the assassination Ruby made contact with men who wanted the president dead. The powerful right wing forces in America wanted him dead because they thought that he was too soft on communism and they didn’t want Kennedy to pull out of Vietnam.
There is a lot of evidence proving that President Kennedy was shot by more than 1 gunman such as: eyewitnesses made clear that they saw smoke and heard shots coming from the fence next to the overpass. However the Warren report changed eyewitness’s statements. In the warren report it says that there were only 3 shots, the first of which missed, the second which hit Kennedy in the throat and the third which happened to cause 7 wounds! This bullet seemed to be magical as it zigzagged and changed direction as it hit Kennedy and Connally. This obviously didn’t happen and there must have been more than three shots. Also the warren committee changed eyewitness’s evidence which says that they saw and heard gunshots from behind a fence next to the overpass. This evidence shows that there must have been more than one gunman.
I think the strongest case is case two as I have found a lot of evidence that it was more than one gunman that killed JFK and I have came to the conclusion that it was not Lee Harvey Oswald but that it was a government set-up. I think the main questions were: Why was Kennedy killed? Who had the power to cover it up? Who benefited from it? The answers are: Kennedy was killed because the government wanted rid of him because of a number of things, such as in 1961 Kennedy was devolving power from the CIA and giving some of it to the military, which the CIA didn’t like. Kennedy refused to invade Cuba in 1962 and he was set out to withdraw from Vietnam. Plus just after Kennedy was assassinated Linden Johnson (the next president) signed a paper to say that America wasn’t pulling out of Vietnam. I think that the government killed him because he was trying to change things. After the limousine was driven from the scene it was washed and rebuilt which just happened to have blood, bullet holes and vital clues which could have helped with the investigation of Kennedy’s death. After Connally was hit his blood soaked suit was sent to be cleaned. The government was trying to cover things up! The film JFK shows how the government planned to kill the president. The film portrayed evidence showing that there were actually 6 shots: At 12.30 the first shot is fired.
1st shot missed the car completely.
2nd shot hits Kennedy in throat.
3rd shot hits Kennedy in back.
4th shot hits Connally in back.
5th shot misses and hits a man standing near the underpass.
6th shot hits Kennedy’s head.
Some of the most important papers and reports relating to the Kennedy assassination have been classified ‘top secret’ by the us government and will not be made public until 2029.If these papers were declassified, people would be able to have access now and find out the truth.