Whom do sources A-D blame for President Kennedy’s death and what evidence is given for this?
President John .F. Kennedy was assassinated on the 22nd of November 1963. There were many theories to why and by whom it was. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination and was assassinated himself by Jack Ruby on his way to trial.
Source A is an extract from the warren commission which was a group of government and judicial officials put in charge of the enquiry into JFK’s murder. The warren commission strongly believed Oswald acted alone. They came o this conclusion on the basis of four main things, the near whole bullet found on Governor Connally’s stretcher, the 3 used cartridges found near the window of the sixth floor were fired from the same rifle as the one found on the stretcher, the windshield of the presidential limousine was struck by a bullet fragment on the inside surface of the glass but was not penetrated, and the nature of the wounds suffered by both JFK and Connally according to the position of the car. The warren commission believe that Oswald acted alone firing all three bullets from the sixth floor window of the Texas book depository.