John F. Kennedy
Governor John Connally and Senator Ralph Yarborough
Love Field Airport in Dallas, TX
Parade Route
Dealey Plaza
Zapruder Film
Zapruder 313 - This shows the head shot to John F. Kennedy
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•Zapruder 335 - Connally is slumped into his wife's lap. Kennedy, now mortally wound leans toward Jackie. That blob on the side of his head is his skull and scalp peeling outward and down.
Zapruder 375 - Agent Hill struggles to get onboard to help Jackie Kennedy.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson
Parkland Hospital
Johnson Addresses the Nation
Funeral
Autopsy Photos
Lee Harvey Oswald
In the Marines
Defection to the USSR
Lee, Marina and baby June
Fair Play for Cuba
Texas School Book Depository
Sniper’s Nest
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Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle
Killing of Police officer JD Tippet
Oswald Arrested in Texas Theatre
Real or Fake??
Oswald in Custody
Interrogation done by Captain Will Fritz
Mugshot
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Oswald Talks to the Press“I’m a patsy”
Transferring Oswald to County Jail
Jack Ruby
Oswald’s in Custody
• Walter Cronkite’s TV Coverage
• Oswalds Press Conference
• I'm a Patsy
• Ruby Shooting Oswald
Warren Commission
Earl Warren
Arlen Specter
Conspiracy Theories
• Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives
• 1978
• Said that JFK “was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.”
• The committee was unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy.
Magic Bullet Theory
Magic Bullet
Another Bullet Found in Limo
Grassy Knoll
Who might have killed JFK?
• The Cubans(x2)
• The KGB(USSR)
• The US Mafia
• The CIA(US Gov’t)
• The Zero Game
Was Nixon Involved?
• Dirty Politics--Nixon, Watergate, and the JFK Assassination
The Three Tramps
Tramps Close Up
• E Howard Hunt ?
• Frank Strugis ?
JFK Act
• Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Act), mandating the gathering and opening of all records concerned with the death of the President Kennedy.
• 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 are associated with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both were shot in the head.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor, was born in 1808.Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy's successor, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.Both names are comprised of fifteen letters.
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
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