Motorcade travelling through Dallas
Lyndon .B Johnson swiftly took over Kennedy’s position of President and Johnson ordered the whole ordeal to be thoroughly investigated by a panel of expert judges and to be led by Chief Justice Earl Warren. During the ten months after the death of Kennedy the case was fully researched into and had finally reached it’s much awaited conclusion of the tragedy. Here are the points the Warren Commission has tried to put across:
- President Kennedy was murdered by a single gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, using a Manlicher Carcano rifle.
- Oswald had fired three rifle shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building.
- The President had been struck from the rear by two bullets. One of these bullets had entered the back of Kennedy’s head and has caused his death.
- Lee Harvey Oswald worked alone in the assassination. There has been no conspiracy.
- Oswald had killed Tippet with four revolver shots in order to avoid arrest.
Chief Justice Earl Warren
When the Warren Commission first issued this report 77% of the American population didn’t believe what it said, that leaves a staggering 23% of people that did believe it. I would have to go with the 77% and have my own speculations about the report and there are a lot more reasonable theories that would make more sense and that have considered all the evidence that was known. I believe the assassination of Kennedy was a carefully planned conspiracy of which Oswald was only a part of. Firstly, about an hour before Kennedy’s motorcade came in to Main Street a man suffered from an epileptic fit he was taken to the nearby Parkfield Hospital by ambulance and when he arrived strangely discharged himself before he could be seen to. Many think this was a sign to the conspirators that Kennedy had maybe arrived in Dallas and would be coming soon. I’m not ruling this out but, to me this doesn’t seem that suspicious, maybe a little strange, but there could’ve been a perfectly reasonable explanation behind it. What I do consider being suspicious is a smart looking man in a black suit propping up an umbrella a couple of minutes before the motorcade arrived. It was a warm sunny day in Dallas, however he could’ve been blocking the bright sun from his face, but he immediately lowered it and it seems very suspicious to me and it was a sign to the conspirators to prepare because Kennedy was now not far away. The conspirators had split up into teams in order to get the rifle shot accurately fired and to make sure the murder didn’t fail. A man named Jim Garrison was just one of the many men that challenged the Warren Commission and this theory of three teams of men makes a lot of sense.
Team A, which was situated on the sixth floor of the depository building, which Oswald was part of. A team B that consisted of a rifleman and spotter on the lower floor of the book depository and the C team were behind the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll, which also consisted of a rifleman and spotter, there were also two or three men in the crowds. Many witnesses claim to have seen two men hanging around that area in the grassy knoll and a staggering 51 witnesses heard shots coming from that area too, why did the Warren Commission ignore this?
The couple of men standing in the crowd could quite possibly have put up the umbrella and one of them maybe could’ve faked the epileptic fit but this seems a very extreme way to attract someone’s attention.
If the motorcade had kept to the originally planned route of travelling down Main Street then perhaps Kennedy’s death would never of taken place. Somebody had earlier phoned the government headquarters and changed the route to Elm Street the phone call also advised to lower the security, which was also approved. Now whoever did this must have been an insider and quite important for the orders to be accepted and Oswald did not have the authority to do this. The reason this phone call was carried out was obviously to get the best possible shot at their target, but the chance when Kennedy was opposite the book depository was not acted upon and the gunman waited.
I don’t think that Oswald fired the final fatal shot to Kennedy’s head. What the conspirators didn’t realise that while their assassination was running to plan the Zapruder film was rolling and would be part of the crucial evidence that would uncover the conspiracy. The whole murder was being filmed on the stone pergola and had a very clear picture from when Kennedy came down Elm Street and at the time of all the shots. If Oswald was standing in the Book Depository Building it would have been on the right side of Kennedy as the car was travelling. On the Zapruder film it shows at the time of the reaction of the fatal hit, that his head goes back and to the left. If Oswald fired this shot then the President’s head would have swung just to the left, this shows the man who killed Kennedy surely must have been standing opposite him on the Grassy Knoll. This makes more sense to me because the gunman would of had a much clearer aim than Oswald was quite a distance behind Kennedy and would confirm the impressions of the eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza. Any tests on the President’s brain would have been extremely useful to confirm this theory. But somehow the doctors and medical team at Park Field Memorial Hospital managed to loose the most important man in America’s brain.
Texas Book Depository Building
It’s now obvious that there were people all over Dallas that day that were involved in the assassination of their President. Take Lyndon.B. Johnson for an example, he was sworn in as President shortly after Kennedy was pronounced dead and ordered the car in which Kennedy was travelling in to be cleaned out. This is ludicrous considering the amount of crucial evidence to be found it that car, and surely Johnson must have known this.
When Kennedy’s body was being prepared to be taken to Washington it was first place in an expensive bronze casket but when it reached Washington he was found in a cheap casket and his body in a plastic body bag, someone had changed them somewhere along the journey. Another piece of crucial evidence that backs up the conspiracy theory is that if Oswald had fired all the shots them he must have done it in an amazing time of 7.5 seconds. The best marksman in America could not beat this time and Oswald must have been under a huge amount of stress. This is peculiar considering that when Oswald used to be in the marines he was known as a poor shot and it is very unrealistic that an amateur like him could fire all these shots accurately in the small amount of time given.
Which brings me to the next vital question; just how many shot were fired? Some people believe in The Magic Bullet Theory. This ludicrous idea supposes that the one shot had somehow managed to enter Kennedy’s back, then his neck and then caused Connally’s injuries at the same time, this remarkable bullet had turned sharp corners to cause these injuries. There were actually six shots fired, the first missed the car, second hit hits Kennedy’s throat, third hits Kennedy’s back, the fourth hits Connally’s shoulder blade, the fifth missed and the sixth and final shot caused the fatal blow to the President’s head.
Magic Bullet Theory
After Oswald was arrested the police managed to unearth a considerable amount of evidence against Oswald. His Manlicher Carcano rifle, which was thought to have been the murder weapon, was found by the window on the sixth floor of the Book Depository with a smudge palm print on it and also some fibres from the shirt that Oswald was wearing that day in the crevice of the gun. The palm prints are very suspicious because they were only discovered after Oswald’s death, and it would not be difficult to bring the rifle to a dead man’s corpse and press his hand to it. His handprints were also found on a brown paper bag and book cartons, which is not substantial evidence seeing as Oswald worked there and would have to touch things to pick them up as part of his job. Tests on Oswald’s hands showed he had recently used a gun, but this doesn’t automatically condemn him because he could have used it for many other things than murder.
And then there was the photo. After Oswald was arrested the police searched his house and supposedly found a photo of him standing in his back garden with the Manlicher rifle.
Looking at the photo something isn’t quite right, see how the head doesn’t appear to sit right on his shoulders. Almost as if someone had faked the photo to accuse Oswald of killing the President.
Oswald with supposed murder weapon
In the planning of the murder Oswald was always going to be the patsy, the dummy in the crime who was set up to take all the blame. He was left stranded in the Depository building unaware of what was happening around him. After Oswald had noticed that the President had been fatally wounded he obviously panicked and rushed out of the Depository Building and into the streets of Dallas. This is when Officer J. D Tippit had supposedly seen him acting suspiciously and approached him, Oswald then pulled out a revolver and shot him. At least two witnesses had stated they saw two men walk away from the murder, although I do think one of these men was Oswald. This was only a few minutes after the shootings, so are we to assume Tippit had known about the death of the president? If not, it seems strange to approach a man just because he looked suspicious. There is the possibility that the police were aware of the conspiracy to murder the President, the police were in the Book Depository Building just minutes after the shootings, which is peculiar because there was total chaos in Dealey Plaza and yet the police decided to target for that particular building. So the remaining assassins had managed to set Oswald up and had succeeded, but how would they shut him up? Jack Ruby had definitely known Oswald before he shot him and he was involved with the police and the underworld scene, it’s possible he shot Oswald on purpose so he wouldn’t tell the police of the conspiracy. If Ruby had done this he must have been prepared to die as a martyr and to give every thing up to maintain the secret of the conspiracy.
Who could possibly have murdered Kennedy is a whole other issue, but there are a number of possible assassins. The Mafia have been associated with the murder and also disgruntled Cuban exiles that were involved with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The whole reason that Kennedy was in Dallas that day was part of his re- election campaign, so perhaps a competitor had organised the conspiracy to make way for a new President.
And that draws me to my conclusion. With all the evidence I have gathered I have managed to thoroughly convince myself to agree with the conspiracy theory. That John F Kennedy had not been murdered by the lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald but in a vicious conspiracy. He was the youngest President ever elected and was blessed with children and a loving wife but his life was cut short and his untimely death was caused by other’s hatred. Just because the Warren Commission couldn’t face up to the fact of the conspiracy theory doesn’t mean the world shouldn’t know about the truth of the biggest murder mystery of the 19th century.
John and Jackie Kennedy at Love Field Airport
