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John F. Kennedy's Assassination: The Conspiracy Theory
ne of the aspects that I chose for John Kennedy’s assassination was The Conspiracy Theory. There are many conspiracy theories about John F. Kennedy. Some of those theories that I chose are; the grassy knoll theory, the single bullet theory, and the umbrella man theory. First is the grassy knoll. The escort was driving by the grassy knoll, on the North side of Elm Street, and that is when. John F. Kennedy, got shot and was killed by a bullet. The newspaper had some photos that proved that and it had happened shortly after the shooting. After the shooting, about twenty one cops. The police has arrested three people that they had found hidden in a railroad car in the knoll. However, since the police saw the men clean shaven …show more content…
Out of all of the theories, one of the theories that had the focus of intense debate was the single bullet theory, and it can also be referred to the “magic bullet theory.” Also, the bullet was a 6.5 millimeter long. During the Warren Commission investigation of Kennedy’s assassination, they suspected that the president was shot by the same bullet that had also shot, but only injured the Texas Governor, which his name was John Connally. The way he got injured was he was sitting in the front seat of the presidential limousine. The bullet punctured John Connally’s back, and it shattered his fifth right rib bone. After is exited the front of Connally’s chest, the bullet got shot right through Connally’s right wrist. When he got shot in his right wrist, it left him breaking one of his wrist bones. This happened before it buried beneath the skin of Connally’s left thigh. The way that John Kennedy was shot was with a single shot, from Oswald’s rifle, the bullet had pierced Kennedy’s suit coat from the rear, before it punctured his body to the right of his spine. The bullet came out of Kennedy’s body through the front of Kennedy’s neck below his Adam’s apple. The single bullet theory has been given credit to the research of Oswald, who had acted as a lone gunman, who shot Kennedy. The reason he shot him was because of Oswald’s pro-Communist leanings or it was because Oswald was depressed and in a mental

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