Who is blamed for Kennedy's death in Source A and do the other sources confirm or contradict this?

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Who is blamed for Kennedy’s death in Source A and do the other sources confirm or contradict this?

After JFk was assassinated the American Government appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to head an inquiry into Kennedy’s death. They did this so as to end rumours of conspiracy theories within the government. The Warren Commission report was presented on the 27th of September 1964.

It concluded that there three bullets fired at Kennedy from the School Book Depository behind the motorcade and that the shots were fired by a lone gun man named Lee Harvey Oswald, a man who worked in the Book Depository.

They came to this conclusion from the following pieces of evidence. A bullet was found on Governor Connally’s stretcher almost completely unmarked and the Warren Commission stated that it was:

‘Fired from the 6.5millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano found on the sixth floor of the Depository building’.

The Warren Commission came to the three bullet conclusion as there were:

‘Three used cartridge cases found near the window of the sixth floor’ and all three ‘were fired from the same rifle as the one on Connally’s stretcher’ states the Warren commission.

The wounds on Kennedy’s and Connally’s body were as follows; after the first bullet missed its target the second bullet entered Kennedy at the back of his neck and exited through the lower front portion of his neck, this bullet was not fatal. This bullet according to the Warren Commission made the following wounds in Connally’s body were as follows; bullet entry hole near his right armpit, a bullet exit wound through his fifth rib, entry and exit wounds on his right wrist and a bullet entry wound in his left thigh. The third bullet struck him in the right-rear portion of his head.

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From the wounds from Kennedy’s and Connelly’s body and the location of the car, the Commission established that:

‘The bullets were fired from above and behind’.

This places the shooter in the School Book Depository.

It states in the commission:

‘There is no credible evidence that the shots were fired from any other direction’.

Source A suggests without doubt that the murder was carried out by a lone gun man Lee Harvey Oswald, that there were only three bullets fired, that all bullets were fired form the School Book Depository and that nobody else was involved.

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