The

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The Official Story
The JFK Assassination

• November 22, 1963

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Lee Harvey Oswald

• 1956 - joins Marine Corps
• Stationed in Japan and Pacific
• 1957 - wounds himself
• Worked at one point as radar operator at U-2 spy
  plane bases
• 1959 - gets out of Marines, goes to Russia
• 1959- attempts suicide and tries to renounce US
  citizenship
• 1961- asks to return to US
• 1961 marries Russian girl Marina, lives in
  Siberia
• Shes the niece of a KGB colonel

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Oswald

• 1962 - Oswalds move to Fort Worth, Texas then
  Dallas
• Mail orders Mannlicher-Carcano rifle
• 1963- tries to shoot General Walker
• 1963 - moves to New Orleans
• 1963 - arrested in NO for passing out pro-Castro
  leaflets
• 1963 - moves back to Dallas
• 1963 - hired at Texas School Book Depository

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Nov. 22, 1963Kennedys arrive at Dallas Love
Field - parade begins
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motorcade passes the TexasSchool Book Depository
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and enters Dealey Plaza
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(No Transcript)
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1st shot - Oswald fires from the 6th floor and
misses
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2nd shot - enters JFKs back,exits front and
hits Texasgovernor John Connelly
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3rd shot (kill shot)- enters back left of JFKs
head, exits right side
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Motorcade speeds on to Parkland Hospital - JFK
pronounced dead
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VP Lyndon Johnson is sworn inon Air Force One
Pledges to continue JFKs policies Retains the
Harvards JFKs policy team
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Oswald later kills a Dallas police officer, and
is then cornered and captured in a Texas Theater
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He talks to reporters from the jail that night
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Another strange character enters the scene - Jack
Ruby (local nightclub owner)
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The next day, while Oswald is being moved, Ruby
shoots him.
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The Mystery lived on..was it Oswald.or a
conspiracy?!!!!
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The Assassination Video
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SHOT 2 1st hit
EXIT ?
OR ENTRY?
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SINGLE BULLET THEORY

• Warren Commission set up to investigate so
  named because?
• Concludes single bullet entered the upper right
  side of JFKs back emerged from his throat.
• Conspiracy theorists say this would require that
  the bullet, just after leaving the Presidents
  throat grazing the left side of the knot of his
  tie, made an acute angular turn to the right in
  midair then entered the far right side of Gov.
  Connally, seated in front of JFK.

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G R A S S Y K N O L L
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Magic Bullet Theory
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Single Bullet - Warren Commission
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Possible Conspirators
1. CIA

• Cuba - still wanted to take out Castro rid
  western hemisphere of Soviet influence
• Shake-up of CIA by JFK RFK
• Secret service on grassy knoll
• Accusations of working with LBJ also

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2) Organized Crime (Mafia)

• Investigations by RFK
• Oswald Ruby connections

• Wanted Vietnam war
• Wanted Cuba back
• NO EVIDENCE
• EVER DISCOVERED

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3) The SovietsFidel Castro
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4. Military-Industrial ComplexIkes Farewell
Address Warned About the Link Between Industry
and War

• Military - wanted Vietnam
• Industry war goods angered over trade embargo
  w/Cuba
• Oil Barons - angered over high taxes

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5. LBJ
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JFK praised most for his ideals, not his
achievements vigor, charisma idealism made
him an inspiration to the 1960s generation.
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• Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in
  1846.John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in
  1946.
• Abraham Lincoln was elected President in
  1860.John F. Kennedy was elected President in
  1960.
• The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven
  letters.
• Both were particularly concerned with civil
  rights.
• Both Presidents' wives lost a child while living
  in the White House.
• Both Presidents were shot while seated next to
  their wife.
• Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both were
  shot in the head.
• Lincoln's personal secretary, whose name was John
  (Nicolay), advised him not to go to the theater.
  Kennedy's personal secretary, whose name was
  (Evelyn) Lincoln, advised him not to go to
  Dallas.
• Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were
  succeeded by Southerners. Both successors were
  named Johnson.
• Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born
  in 1808.Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy,
  was born in 1908.
• John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln was
  born in 1839.Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated
  Kennedy was born in 1939.
• Both assassins were known by their three names.
• Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a
  warehouse.Oswald ran from a warehouse and was
  caught in a theater. Both assassins were
  assassinated before their trials.
• Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theatre and Kennedy
  was shot while in a Ford Lincoln.  
• A week before Lincoln was shot, he was with
  friends in Monroe, Maryland.
• A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with his
  friend Marilyn Monroe.