Jfk Assassination Argumentative Essay
Thoughts surrounding the JFK assassination are interesting and controversial. Conventional wisdom dictates that a single shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot and killed President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. However, there is evidence to support that there were multiple shooters and Lee Harvey Oswald was not in the position to shoot the bullets everyone said he did, and many people truly believe that to be so. It is simple to dismiss such conspiracy theory as imaginative fiction, but many people have done research to prove that the single shooter did not kill President Kennedy alone. I believe that someone with more power than Oswald carried out this assassination and framed Oswald, and will use research to support this claim. The story the
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He married a woman in the Soviet Union and had a daughter, then returned to the United States. In 1963, Oswald bought a revolver and a rifle with a high powered scope attached by mail, and in April 1963 he allegedly shot and missed a former U.S. Army general Edwin Walker. Later in that month Oswald founded a pro-Castro organization. In September, Oswald attempted to return to the Soviet Union and but could not. In October, he took a job at the Texas School Book Depository Building, the place where he allegedly shot and killed President Kennedy. (http://www.history.com) Some theories that circle around are that the Soviet Union did it. Oswald was connected to the Soviet Union. He married a Russian, and had a child with her before he returned to the U.S. The Soviets and the U.S. were in a cold war at this time and the Soviet Union was embarrassed for having to back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis, so some say Khrushchev ordered Oswald to assassinate Kennedy. Oswald’s connection to the Soviet Union makes this a compelling case in the assassination of JFK. (
He married a woman in the Soviet Union and had a daughter, then returned to the United States. In 1963, Oswald bought a revolver and a rifle with a high powered scope attached by mail, and in April 1963 he allegedly shot and missed a former U.S. Army general Edwin Walker. Later in that month Oswald founded a pro-Castro organization. In September, Oswald attempted to return to the Soviet Union and but could not. In October, he took a job at the Texas School Book Depository Building, the place where he allegedly shot and killed President Kennedy. (http://www.history.com) Some theories that circle around are that the Soviet Union did it. Oswald was connected to the Soviet Union. He married a Russian, and had a child with her before he returned to the U.S. The Soviets and the U.S. were in a cold war at this time and the Soviet Union was embarrassed for having to back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis, so some say Khrushchev ordered Oswald to assassinate Kennedy. Oswald’s connection to the Soviet Union makes this a compelling case in the assassination of JFK. (