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Aaron Crumbley

Ms. Caruso

ENGL 1102

15 Feb 2012

John F Kennedy: The Actual Truth

November 22, 1963, a day that we have all been informed of. On this fateful day,

someone or a few people successfully assassinated the thirty fifth president of the United States.

The possibility of a conspiracy or a cover up has been mused by a large proportion of the

American public and as it stands today, people still believe the details are fishy. There are twenty

plus theories on what could have happened and I am going to discuss 5 in particular. The first

theory raises its head as Lee Harvey Oswald was a conspiracy theorist himself who was known

to have ties with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Next, I have dissected two different eye witness

accounts that come from four different people. Here, we have the involvement of the American

Mafia, why would the Mafia care about the president you may ask? John F Kennedy and Robert

Kennedy were notorious for rooting out organized crime in America. Lastly we come to the

darkest, most dishonorable of all theories, the idea that Vice President, Lyndon Baines Johnson

had something to do with the death of JFK. I have picked apart these theories and will show you

why the facts point to something out of the ordinary.

Irving, Texas, home to the secret, unsuspected hiding spot of the rifle that would soon kill

the President of the United States. The home belonged to Ruth Paine, a Quaker from Texas who

had befriended the Oswald¶s. Marina Oswald and her two children were living with Ruth while

Lee joined them solely on the weekends; he was living in a rooming house in downtown Dallas

Comment [DS1]: Reviewed by: DillonSimpson

Comment [DS2]: Add the MLA format of last name and page number into t he paper.

Comment [DS3]: Don t write I or you in thepaper, change it to this paper will state 5 inparticular.

Comment [DS4]: Good introduction,keeping the reader involved with the paperand what is going to happen.



near the Texas School Book Depository where he had gotten a job thanks to Ruth. It is worth

noting that Oswald once travelled a distance of 12 hours to check out a copy of Mao Zedong¶s

biography, Mao was a Chinese Communist Revolutionary who believed heavily in Marxism and

Leninism. This contributes to his possible political standpoint and his former ties to the Soviet

Union who were known communists. Pairing that with Oswald¶s visiting Moscow in 1959 with

the intention to defect on his former country for which he had served certainly raises a few

eyebrows.Oswald injured or killed four people on November 22, 1963, among them were

President Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, Officer J.D. Tippit and James Tague who

lastly was struck by a piece of curb from Oswald¶s supposed one ³errant´ shot. If there are no

reports of anyone explicitly seeing Oswald why did he rush his last shot?Also a single bullet

theory has been proposed, now I am no doctor but you tell me how one bullet can hit President

Kennedy, Governor Connally and the curb of the street? It cannot happen like that. At a later

date in London a mock trial was held with Ruth Paine as lead witness where in fact Oswald was

convicted although he had already been killed himself. When studying Oswald¶s mother

Marguerite, we can see where Oswald developed his belief of the world being against he and hisfamily and in fact where he became a conspiracy theorist h imself. The Warren Commission i tself

had labeled Oswald the lone assassin, yet faced with scrutiny the Commission never fought back

when people began to question their findings. Kennedy¶s autopsy had been very flawed as if

someone indeed was trying to cover up the true reason for Kennedy¶s death. ³There were a

hundred or so mysterious deaths among people who supposedly knew too much.´(Mallon 110)

Oswald then proceeded to delay transport from the city lockup to the county jail solely over

changing a shirt, which just so happened to give Mr. Jack Ruby enough time to show up and

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Comment [DS6]: Feel like this sentence is alittle irrelevant, just because he was aconspiracy theorist has nothing to do with himshooting JFK



murder Oswald at the jail. Seems unreasonable does it not?³Unless Oswald was a party to the

conspiracy to murder himself.´(Mallon 112)

Jack Bell of the Associated Press witnessed the assassination from the fourth car back

from the President. ³A loud bang as though a giant firecracker had exploded in the caverns

between the tall buildings«´(Bell ) Bell then stated that the second and third shots happened in

rapid succession, which does agree with Thomas Mallon. ³As my eyes swept the buildings to the

right, where the shots-if they really were shots; and it seemed unbelievable-might have come, I

saw no significant sign of activity.´ Yet supposedly the last shot was rushed which caused

³Oswald´ to miss therefore he must have been in a scurry to get out of the building. When

arriving at Parkland Hospital Bell saw Kennedy face down in the backseat of the convertible

lying motionless, when Bell stopped a Secret Service agent to ask if President Kennedy was dead

he was greeted with ³I don¶t know, but I don¶t think so.´ When someone is lying face down after

a two minute car ride with blood pouring out of them they are probably dead, so why would a

Secret Service agent feel the need to lie about something so obvious? Then we must face the

question of why the top was off of the convertible and why the shatter proof windows wererolled down. The Kennedy¶s were welcomed with open arms by everyone in Texas leading up to

the motorcade but this still does not seem like a valid reason to leave the President a sitting duck.

An ordinary man on a business convention in Texas happened to weigh in on the next report,

Norman Similas stated there was an interval between the first and second shot, along with an

interval between the second and third shots yet Bell reported the three shots to have occurred in

rapid succession. Similas also confirmed that the Secret Service and the local police were both

scanning the crowd and the surrounding buildings before the second and third shots went off, if

this is the case how could so many highly trained professionals not see anything? Not even a

Comment [DS7]: Either add a fewparagraph s or add transitions to make thislong paragraph flow better.

Comment [DS8]: (bell, ? page number ? Oparagraph number ?

Comment [DS9]: Add some moreparagraph, it makes the flow better.



shimmer of light from a building or the long barrel of a rifle. Bell was a highly esteemed reporter

who was actually in the motorcade, which means he could reach out and publish an article to

make the public believe what the government wanted.

Our third report comes from Tom Wicker who happened to be on location for the murder

of President Kennedy. The first official report stated that President Kennedy had been killed by

one bullet to the brain. Basically we have been faced with three different ways that Kennedy has

been murdered. Comment [DS10]: The paper is written with5 different accounts about JFK. I felt to get alittle bored because something were relatedto the conspiracy, they just weren t thatsufficient. There were some thing in the paperthat lacked true focus and some t hings felt ourof place. He elaborates very well, but lackstrue flow through the whole paper. Eachdifferent account is like a different paper initself. I think when revising the paper it shouldbe to add more paragraphs, make it flowbetter and really work on sentence st ructure.He combines is main idea very well and theintroduction was a short conclusion of eachaccount he was going to talk about.

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