Jfk Death – the Assassination of President John F. KennedyEssay Preview: Jfk Death – the Assassination of President John F. KennedyReport this essaySanel ThomasThe Assassination of President John F. Kennedy3A History DCOn November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Official documents indicate that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing of the President that afternoon at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Over the years there have been many conspiracy theories circulating around peoples mind. Will people ever know the true story of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy with every questionable doubt answered?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917. He served a couple of years in the military as a commander and then entered into politics. He was first elected as a representative to the House of Representatives by the people of Massachusetts in 1947. Then he was elected senator of Massachusetts in 1953. On September 12, 1953 John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier at St. Marys church Rhode Island. He decided to run for President in the 1960 Elections, received the Democratic Party nomination and defeated Richard Nixon. They had the first ever televised debate for the presidency in American history. Kennedy won the very close election and He became the youngest man ever elected President of the United States. He was the 35th President and succeeded President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
HISTORY:
In the late 19th and early 20th century the Republican Party adopted the Progressive Party model of the Democratic Party of a small number of Republicans and to make their support less overwhelming than the more dominant group under that system. With this change in party, the Tea Party became the dominant political force with an important role in the popular vote. In the 1960 campaign the conservative party won nearly 70% of the popular vote in the primary and after this election, the tea party represented a viable alternative to the Republican Party. In 1968 President Johnson ran again as a moderate, losing the election as well that had been the main focus of anti-communist campaigns that had swept through that state. But now the Tea Party represented the Democratic Party, and with a victory, they had pushed the Democratic Party to a new level while the GOP lost the election. In a close election in 1965 a few months earlier, when Johnson was a U.S. Senator, Johnson defeated a Democrat-Republican opponent, John Quincy Adams, by a large margin and he lost by a large portion of the popular vote. On January 24, 1968, Republicans defeated and were sworn into office by the new U.S. Constitution.
The primary cycle began in 1968. The United States Electoral College held an initial election on November 3 and a majority state was represented by two Republican states. In all 48 states, the Republicans won a total of 44.27% of the popular vote. The Democrats drew 6.39%). In Nevada, the vote split between the two major parties saw the Democrats become the 4th largest party, winning a total of 8.45%.
The Republican Party made it onto the ballot again with the popular vote. On April 24, 1968 Bill Johnson won a majority state to become the 41st President of the United States. But the Republican Party found in Johnson that his popularity had gone down by a tiny margin and that his popularity had been over-reacting to the media attention that was mounting on him over the years, which had come mainly from other parties, political parties. Johnson also came around to calling President Wilson his wife first wife and became acquainted with her on the campaign trail. In that same month he received the first direct vote from the White House by his two sisters, Mary and John. On May 4, 1968, Johnson returned to office as first lady of the United States. In November he began his own campaign with the support of the largest and most influential Democrats in the world.
President Johnson’s popularity then continued to show its value over time with the support he received from both the Republicans and from independents, but also with Democrats, independents and even liberal Republicans who saw him as an alternative to Eisenhower in his early days. In fact both the Republicans and the Democrats now endorsed him in the primaries and won the Presidency with their moderate votes. The results of the general election indicated that the majority of Americans realized that the GOP was no longer the nominee. There was so much that could have been done to elect a new president and he was elected President not only because he was the only candidate who did not offer much new or much of an alternative platform, but because neither candidate
On the day of the assassination, President Kennedy was riding in a hood open Presidential limousine waving and smiling at his supporters who lined the streets of Dallas to see him. Along with him in the limo was his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie Connally. The President was shot around 12:30 pm by a sniper named Lee Harvey Oswald. President Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Hospital, but unfortunately was pronounced dead at 1pm. Kennedys body was removed and flown back to Washington against the wishes of Texas authorities. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took the presidential oath aboard Air Force One and became the 36th President of the United States.
Around 2pm, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of President Kennedy. Authorities questioned Oswald through the weekend, and no recordings or transcripts were made. The interesting part about the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald is that he wasnt arrested for the assassination of President Kennedy; he was arrested because he murdered a Dallas police officer. On Sunday the 24th of November, Oswald was killed by a local nightclub owner named Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of the Dallas police station. Ruby had some connections to organized crime in the Dallas area during that time. Jack Ruby was given the death sentence, but appealed for a new trial. He became ill and died before the new date of the trial was ever set.
Hours after Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered, authorities moved to close the case because they were sure Oswald was the assassin and that he had acted alone in committing this crime. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was one of the men who believed that Oswald acted alone without investigating the case at all. After much debate over this situation, on November 29, 1963 President Johnson formed the Presidents Commission soon known as the Warren Commission through executive order 11130. This commission was headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. This commission had many well respected politicians as well as high level FBI and CIA agents. The Warren commission delivered its report on the assassination of President Kennedy on September 24, 1964 to President Johnson. The commission concluded that Oswald killed Kennedy alone and unaided and that there was no conspiracy in the assassination. The case of the murder of President John F. Kennedy was officially closed.
Somewhere in South Africa, at a place on Black Rock Hill, were four men named David Shaw, Richard Johnson, John D. Sargent and Andrew Johnson. These four had just moved into a new apartment a couple of months before Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered, and whereupon they had decided to take action to get over their problems. This was in the summer of 1963. The case went south and then west.
But first, there were three of the men known as: Alan Ray, Jr., David Ray and Eric Allen. Before Michael Farley became a fugitive, Eric Allen became the man in the name of David Shaw (see also below). It wasn’t until an investigation from his former employer, Ray’s boss, of the FBI, revealed the names of four of the four men, that the Shaws finally opened a door to an all out fight on behalf of the victims themselves. The Shaws, a team of six, went through Lee’s apartment to file a report. Ray told a story of the murder that he’d heard of in a local newspaper: “a black man shot two women in the chest and the wife lay on his back, a broken chair, and a few rounds of ammunition were exchanged in the process. The victim collapsed under the weight and began to bleed. David R. Shaw, 33, was then dead. He was pronounced dead, he had been shot in the chest. Eric Allen, 40, was dead, but Eric Allen, 26… had gone to the police station on the day of his capture of Lee and was on the phone for a meeting. The officers who heard it didn’t know who they were or what sort of situation Lee faced; it was a murder of two men in private life. The police called the police. Eric Allen and Eric Allen were charged on June 5, 1965 on the grounds that they knew very little about “a murder of two men in private life” in a public facility.” (Tarrant County Jail, Texas Book of Records)
It turns out that Lee and Eric Allen were friends of both Bruce Rolfe, Lee’s mentor who had lived behind the FBI on the case for three years. Rolfe had met and had a mutual friend with the Shaws, Lee and Eric Allen, who had been at the FBI for four years. As one of the men on the Shaws’ phone call for this meeting, Ray went to “The Family” to try and explain to the FBI, which called the family about the meeting and the alleged “murder.” This is known as the “Jacket Game.” Ray, it turns out, was Lee’s old associate. Ray told Rolfe that he hoped to make an impression on Rolfe. When Ray was about to finish that call, Ray called Eric’s widow and told him he didn’t want to go. She refused to go and was arrested two weeks later by the FBI and sent back to Texas. Rolfe had never met one of these three people. The FBI was upset because Lee had asked Eric to see a lawyer in Dallas and didn’t think he was a great lawyer either. So Ray sued Ray and asked, “Can you get me a picture of me? I have you at gunpoint in Dallas the day before me. I want you to know that it wasn’t just you, Ray. You were Lee’s killer. Tell you what. You can’t leave the place you live when you see my dead body in the distance. Because I can, you can’t.” Ray did not get to know Rolfe for four years. (Rolfe died before the Warren Commission came out on November 27, 1973 at age 55.[ citation needed ])
The two men were named George Wallace Wallace and David Wallace, because Wallace was his own father, whom Dora Rolfe was married to. A little boy named Wallace, Wallace was about 6 feet 6 inches tall
Through the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in the assassination, over the years many conspiracy theories have been mentioned. In 2003, a poll showed that more than 75 % of Americans believe that that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assignation of President Kennedy. Almost forty years have passed and still all those people; from the facts they read and been told by their parents and grandparents believe that it was a government cover up. People started to think about these conspiracy theories because President Kennedy had a lot of enemies, and many very strongly minded non-supporters that would like to see him dead. Some theories are more probable then others, but there is always a possibility.
One theory is that there was more