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Name an event in your life that you will never forget.
Bell Ringer Name an event in your life that you will never forget.
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The Kennedy Assassination
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https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=eqzJQE8 LYrQ
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November 22,1963 Dallas, Texas Dealey Plaza
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The main characters are…
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JFK 35th President Was on his way to a luncheon
Last president to ride in a convertible
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Gov. John Connelly Texas Gov.-
He and his wife were riding in the car with JFK and Jackie Kennedy
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Lee Harvey Oswald Known communist Accused of being the lone assassin
Former Marine
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Jack Ruby Dallas businessman who shot and killed Oswald 2 days after the assassination ube.com/watch?v= m5khMFFKslw Reportedly linked to organized crime (The Mob)
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Abraham Zapruder Local witness who had the only film of the assassination
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Warren Commission Appointed to investigate JFK’s assassination
Headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren Concluded that only 1 man killed JFK (Oswald) and he fired 3 shots (6- 7sec time period)
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3 shots fired… 1st shot – missed the president’s car Completely
2nd Shot – Hit both kennedy and connelly creating 7 wounds 3rd Shot – The fatal shot to the head
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The 2nd Shot Conspiracy Theorists referred to the Single Bullet Theory as “The Magic Bullet” Theory because they believed that one bullet could not have caused so many wounds.
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A shot from behind?
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Dealey Plaza (November 22, 1963)
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Umbrella Man *As Kennedy passed, there was a man dressed in black pumping a black umbrella in an “up and down” motion. *Dallas weather on November 22, 1963 was 71 degrees and sunny
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The Same Person????? Oswald: 2 hours after the assassination of JFK
Oswald seconds before the JFK assassination???
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“Badge Man”
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Zapruder film revealing a man behind the fence on the grassy knoll????
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So, who would want kennedy dead?...
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Fidel Castro Angered that Kennedy backed the Bay of Pigs Invasion so he wanted revenge
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The Mafia: The Mafia was upset with him because after their backing him in the election, he turned on organized crime and assigned his brother, Robert, the Attorney General, to establish a task force to prosecute them. Remember, Jack Ruby was alleged to be involved in organized crime!!
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The CIA The CIA, because they feared what he was capable of doing on the international stage, and bungling things for America as he did in the Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Disproving the conspiracies…
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“Oswald” in the doorway?
Billy Lovelady
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Umbrella Man Louie Steven Witt Neville Chamberlain
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Other conspiracy theories…
What about the timing of the shots? Grassy Knoll? “Back and to the Left?”
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