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1. November, 1963• 1964 Election
coming up• Raise support for
the Democratic Party
• JFK goes to Dallas• Not well liked in the
South• Drove from Airport
(Love Field) through Dallas to make a speech
The Texas Schoolbook Depository Building
• Suspected where 3 shots were fired from
• 3 bullet casings found near window
• Rifle found behind boxes
2. JFK IS SHOT• Nov. 22, 1963• Lee Harvey Oswald
Arrested for shooting Dallas Police Officer JD Tippet
• Later charged with JFK murder
• Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as President on Air Force One
• TX Gov. John Connelly also wounded
3. Oswald Assassinated 2 Days Later
• Oswald being transferred to another prison
• In Police Station Garage, Oswald shot by Jack Ruby
• Ruby a Dallas nightclub owner with Mob connections
Warren Commission
• Appointed by LBJ to address JFK Murder
• Headed by US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren
• 10 month investigation concluded Lee Oswald was the lone assassin
• “Lone Gunman Theory”
Was There A Conspiracy???
• JFK at ends with CIA and FBI
• Southern States hostile towards JFK and his Civil Rights Policy
• And…
Warren Commission
• Alan Dulles on Commission– JFK fired him after Bay
of Pigs
• Records sealed until 2029
MISC Things• 1. Were Secret Service orders compromised?
• Limo top removed??? Windows open on Street???
• 2. Shot moving away, not going towards???
• 3. Shooting with Carcano Rifle (old bolt rifle)
• 4. Tree obstruction in the way of shots
• 5. JFK limo cleaned at Hospital (blood evidence)
• 6. Connelly’s suit immediately sent to Dry-Cleaners
• 7. JFK’s brain goes missing for a time.
• 8. Documents and Photos will go missing.
• 9. Oswald’s Military Record (Poor Shooter???)
• 10. Oswald’s Russian record (intelligence)
• 11. Jack Ruby (Mob) Connections (Who involved???)
Zapruder Film
• Single Greatest Challenge to “Lone Gunman Theory”
• Abraham Zapruder filmed JFK motorcade passing by
• Caught JFK Assassination on video tape
6. Magic Bullet Theory(Warren Commission)Senator Arlen Spector
• FBI claims Lee Oswald fired only 3 shots
• One Shot wounds bystander James Teague
• One shot is the last fatal Head Shot
• One bullet must account for 7 more wounds between JFK and TX Gov. John Connelly
Jim Garrison
• New Orleans District Attorney
• Only person ever to bring a public trial in JFK death
• Attempts to refute the Warren Commission
• In 1979, Richard Helms, then Director of CIA Covert operations in 1963, admitted under oath that Claw Shaw had worked for the CIA.
• The files of the House Selects Committee on Assassinations are sealed until the year 2029
• In 1992, Congress appointed a panel to review files and determine which documents would be made available to the public.