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Lee Harvey Kennedy's Assassination
On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy was in Dallas, Texas for a speech at the Dealey Plaza. On his way there, in an open convertible, instead of going down Dallas’ Main St., which they planned to, they decided to go down Elm St. where there were more buildings and a better crowd view. On going down Elm St. now, there were three shots. Two of the shots hit the president, one in the neck and one in the head, and the third shot hit the governor. Ninety seconds after the shots, officers rushed into the Texas School Book Depository to find a man named Lee Harvey Oswald eating his lunch very calmly on the second floor and a sniper rifle on the sixth floor. Lee Harvey Oswald worked at the school book depository and was arrested and put …show more content…
His father died of a heart attack two months before Oswald was born. Oswald’s elder brother was in the Marines, and his step-brother was in the Air Force. Lee Harvey Oswald joined the Marines and later received an honorable discharge and went to the Soviet Union. Later in Oswald’s life, he moved to Dallas, Texas and got a job at the Texas School Book Depository. According to Teacher Created Resource, “The wound in the (president’s) neck was very small and the doctors said it was an entrance wound. Therefore, the bullet came from the front.” It also stated, “At Parkland, the doctors said the head wound showed the bullet came from the front as the back of Kennedy’s head was blown off.” The strange thing is that the school book depository was located behind the convertible. Another piece of evidence that contradicts that Oswald assassinated the president is, that a witness at the scene said to have seen two men behind the grassy knoll, one in a uniform and the other dressed as a railroad worker. The witness said one of the men took apart a gun and put it in a tool box. He said that later the FBI offered him money to keep quiet about

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