The

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The Official Story
The JFK Assassination

• November 22, 1963

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Lee Harvey Oswald

• 1956 - joins Marine Corps
• Stationed in Japan and Pacific
• 1957 - wounds himself
• Worked at one point as radar operator at U-2 spy
  plane bases
• 1959 - gets out of Marines, goes to Russia
• 1959- attempts suicide

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Oswald (cont.)

• 1959 - tries to renounce US citizenship
• 1961- asks to return to US
• 1961 marries Russian girl Marina, lives in
  Siberia (Russia)
• Shes the niece of a KGB colonel

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Oswald (cont.)

• 1962 - Oswalds move to Fort Worth, Texas
• 1962 - Oswalds move to Dallas
• mail orders Mannlicher-Carcano rifle
• 1963- tries to shoot General Walker
• 1963 - moves to New Orleans

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Oswald (cont.)

• 1963 - arrested in NO for passing out pro-Castro
  leaflets
• 1963 - moves back to Dallas
• 1963 - hired at Texas School Book Depository

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Nov. 22, 1963Kennedys arrive at Dallas Love
Field - parade begins
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motorcade passes the TexasSchool Book Depository
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and enters Dealey Plaza
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(No Transcript)
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1st shot - Oswald fires from the 6th floor and
misses
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2nd shot - enters JFKs back,exits front and
hits Texasgovernor John Connelly
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3rd shot (kill shot)- enters back left of JFKs
head, exits right side
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Motorcade speeds on to Parkland Hospital - JFK
pronounced dead
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VP Lyndon Johnson is sworn inon Air Force One
Pledges to continue JFKs policies Retains the
Harvards JFKs policy team
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Oswald later kills a Dallas police officer, and
is then cornered and captured in the Texas Theater
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He talks to reporters from the jail that night
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Another strange character enters the scene - Jack
Ruby (local nightclub owner)
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The next day, while Oswald is being moved, Ruby
shoots him.
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The Mystery lived on..was it Oswald.or a
conspiracy?!!!!
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The Assassination Video
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SHOT 2 1st hit
EXIT ?
OR ENTRY?
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SINGLE BULLET THEORY

• Warren Commission set up to investigate so
  named because?
• Concludes single bullet entered the upper right
  side of JFKs back emerged from his throat.
• Conspiracy theorists say this would require that
  the bullet, just after leaving the Presidents
  throat grazing the left side of the knot of his
  tie, made an acute angular turn to the right in
  midair then entered the far right side of Gov.
  Connally, seated in front of JFK.
• Conspiracy theorists also argue that the bullet
  was planted on JFKs stretcher..it was too
  pristine to have done all the damage it did.

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G R A S S Y K N O L L
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Magic Bullet Theory
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Single Bullet - Warren Commission
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Possible Conspirators
1. CIA

• Cuba - still wanted to take out Castro rid
  western hemisphere of Soviet influence
• Shake-up of CIA by JFK RFK
• Secret service on grassy knoll
• Accusations of working with LBJ also

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2) Organized Crime (Mafia)

• Investigations by RFK
• Oswald Ruby connections

• Wanted Vietnam war
• Wanted Cuba back
• NO EVIDENCE
• EVER DISCOVERED

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3) The SovietsFidel Castro
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4. Military-Industrial ComplexIkes Farewell
Address Warned About the Link Between Industry
and War

• Military - wanted Vietnam
• Industry war goods angered over trade embargo
  w/Cuba
• Oil Barons - angered over high taxes

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5. LBJ
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JFK praised most for his ideals, not his
achievements vigor, charisma idealism made
him an inspiration to the 1960s generation.
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ORIGINAL EVIDENCE ALLEGEDLY MISSING or DESTROYED

• Original autopsy report, Dallas (Parkland)
• The brain of JFK
• Tissue slides of JFKs wounds
• Roll of autopsy film, exposed destroyed at
  Naval Hospital, Bethesda
• Tapes of the Parkland hospital doctors 1st press
  conference (described throat wound as entry
  rather than exit)
• Several frames from the Zapruder film
• Presidential limo rebuilt before examination
  complete
• Gov. Connallys clothing laundered before
  examination
• Disappearance/death of witnesses