JFK Assassination

Topics: John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald Pages: 2 (834 words) Published: March 30, 2014
The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the most debated topics in American History. JFK was one of the best presidents that the United States has had. Unlike other assassinations, the JFK assassination is one that filled the conspiracy theories. There are a lot of different conspiracies out there that are thought to be true. Some have to do with the government and some with the mafia and Cuban President Fidel Castro. I think that the idea of a lone assassination, including just Lee Harvey Oswald, is too simple. I think it had to have been a conspiracy. I think there is simply no way that Lee Harvey Oswald did all of that by himself. There is a lot of conspiracy theories that are clearly not true but there is also a couple that make a lot of sense and could easily be true. So I am on the conspiracy side.

I think the second person, the one who helped Lee Harvey Oswald kill Kennedy, was behind the grassy knoll. I don’t really believe any of the other conspiracies that are out there like thinking it was the secret service men, even though it is a possibility. The evidence of it being someone behind the grassy knoll is simple. In the Zapruder film, it shows Kennedy’s head going back and if he were to get hit from the back of the head, by Oswald, then his head wouldn’t have gone back. If you think of it as getting punched in the head it makes sense. If you were to get punched in the back of the head you wouldn’t move your head back towards it, you would move it forward, or the force would push it forward. Also there are people who said they saw brain matter come shooting out of the back of his head and heard a shot from the grassy knoll.

There is some medical evidence like the autopsy that could prove for it to be lone assassin by showing an exit wound out the front of the head. But a lot of people say that those photos are photo shopped and made to look like it came from the back of the head. I agree that they were most likely photo...
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