The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy took place inDealy Plaza on November 22nd 1963.

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The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy took place in
Dealy Plaza on November 22
nd 1963. Immediately the hunt for the killer started. Within hours lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged with the killing. Within the year the official government inquiry called the Warren committee reported their findings. They say that

  • Kennedy was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald using a mannlicher carcano rifle.
  • Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor of the depository.
  • Kennedy was struck by two bullets from the rear.
  • Oswald worked alone in the assassination.

There has been much disagreement over who killed JFK throughout the world but so far not much has been done about it. No-one really knows who killed the president of the United States. Some think it was the mafia, some the CIA, some people think it was the government, but most people think it was a man called Lee Harvey Oswald.

 Lee Harvey Oswald was born on 18th October 1939 in New Orleans. He lived with his mother (his dad had died) until 1944 when they moved to Texas. Lee and his family moved around quite a lot until 1956 when he joined the marines. He moved to Russia in 1959 where he met his wife . Then in 1962 Oswald moved back to America to live in Dallas. Where he ordered his gun from an ad in a magazine. On October 15th 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald was hired by Roy Truly to work at the school book depository in Dallas Texas. Which is a bit coincidental considering Kennedy was shot 7 days after Oswald started working there. The evidence that suggests that Oswald shot Kennedy is as follows:

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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.

  1. 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 ...

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