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JFK’s Assassination Conspiracy or Not?
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Tragedy in Dallas November 22, 1963: JFK arrives in Dallas with Jackie to mend political fences. Dallas had an unfriendly reputation towards politicians. Kennedy received warm applause from the crowd.
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Tragedy in Dallas As the motorcade approached Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository, three shots rang out and two of them struck the president.
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Tragedy in Dallas JFK is assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963 – Dallas, Texas
Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in aboard Air Force One.
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Tragedy in Dallas Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested and charged with the murder of the President. The Warren Commission concludes that Oswald acted alone. Further investigation in 1979 revealed that JFK was killed as the result of a “probable conspiracy” and recommended the justice department further investigate. Open Car with Gov. John Connally his wife Nellie sat in the front seat JFK and Jacqueline sit in the back. Limo passes the Texas School Book Depository Kennedy is shot three times
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State Funeral of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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John and Jackie Kennedy
“I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with him and see our children grow up…so now he is a legend, when he would have preferred to be a man.” -Jackie Kennedy
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Why do a majority of Americans believe that JFK was killed as a result of a conspiracy?
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Assassin - Lee Harvey Oswald
Shown here in Oak Cliff, Texas. Tried to defect to the Soviet Union and Cuba. What questions does that raise?
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School Book Depository
LHO got a job in this building. He would eventually shoot JFK from the sixth floor. Oswald was on the FBI and CIA radar because of his connections to the Soviet Union and Cuba. People question why his place of employment wasn’t more noted in relation to the motorcade route.
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Motorcade route What are the potential problems you can see with this route?
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Why not shoot him coming toward the book depository?
6th floor
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Sniper’s perch This is Lee Harvey Oswald’s view from the 6th floor of the School Book Depository Three bullet casings found by the window. What do you notice about the tree?
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Sixth Floor of the School Book Depository on the day JFK was assassinated.
The rifle was stashed on the opposite side of the building wiped clean of fingerprints. Oswald then sprinted down 4 flights of stairs to the 2nd floor lunchroom where he was confronted by a policeman a maximum of 90 seconds after he just killed the president.
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Zapruder’s film the most famous piece of evidence
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He was filming from here.
It establishes a timeframe for the assassination. No more than three shots could have been fired from the 6th floor of the Book Depository. Bolt action rifle found.
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Sniper perch 1st shot 3rd shot
4 out of 178 witnesses claimed to hear shots coming from multiple directions
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This plaque sits next to where he was fatally shot.
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Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Hospital
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Magic Bullet Theory The Pristine Magic Bullet
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Beyond Conspiracy Can computer animation prove the magic bullet theory?
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Oswald fled the scene He checked into his boarding house on Beckley. Officer J. Tippit stops on the street to talk to Oswald. Oswald shoots him 4 times to death
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Lee Harvey Oswald walked 8 blocks to Texas Theatre on Jefferson Blvd.
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Arrested The cops beat him up after Oswald resists arrest at the theatre.
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LHO was being escorted to another jail.
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Oswald was murdered. Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, shoots Oswald on live TV. LHO will never go on record explain why he did what he did.
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“You killed the President, you rat!”
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The Back Wound
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Questions about the rifle?
Was there a Second Rifle?
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The Grassy Knoll The witness interviews: James Leon Simmons Beverly Oliver William Newman Jean Hill
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A majority of people today believe JFK was killed by a conspiracy!!!!
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