Conspiracy Theories: The Assassination Of John F Kennedy
Summary:
On November 21, 1963, President Kennedy, along with Jackie Kennedy, traveled to Texas where they planned to make several appearances in an effort to gain support for the Democratic Party before the 1964 presidential election. Prior to the trip, several White House officials warned the president that going to texas was a bad idea because the state was so densely republican and therefore, he might have been in for a hostile environment towards his democratic views. Kennedy rebuffed their advice and made the journey anyways.
The next day, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 P.M, Kennedy was fired upon while riding in an open top car in Dallas. The official reports state that there were 3 shots all fired from a rifle on the 6th floor of the …show more content…
Book Depository building. The first bullet missed the president, while the second penetrated the back of his neck. Kennedy was wearing a steel-boned back brace which unfortunately held him in an upright position so that the final bullet was able to fatally strike the back of his head. Directly after the shooting, Kennedy was sped to the closest hospital where surgeons tried to save the president's life. However, in all probability, Kennedy was instantly killed from the impact of the third bullet. At 1 P.M, President Kennedy was announced dead. Two hours after Kennedy’s death, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn into office on board the Air Force One.
An hour after the shooting, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on the suspicion of President Kennedy’s murder.
Unfortunately, just two days later, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner, and was unable to defend the allegations presented against himself.
Lee Harvey Oswald:
Shortly after the assassination, newly made President Johnson made a commission to investigate Kennedy’s death. The commission lasted nearly a year, concluding that Oswald had acted alone in shooting the president and there was no conspiracy involved. Unfortunately, the commission, however firm it may have seemed, failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event.
Conspiracy …show more content…
Theories:
Decoy hearse and wound alteration-
A scenario, presented by David Lifton, claims that conspirators on the Air Force One while travelling from Dallas to Washington, removed President Kennedy's body from its original bronze casket and then put it in a shipping casket.
Allegedly when the plane arrived at Andrews Air Force Base, the President's body, whilst in the shipping casket, was flown to an unknown location by helicopter after being removed from the side of the plane that was unable to be seen by the televisions camera. The conspirators supposedly did this for the purpose of surgically altering the body in order to make it appear that he was only shot from the
rear.
Shadow government conspiracy-
There is a theory that suggests a secret or shadow government, including wealthy industrialists and right-wing politicians, having ordered the murder of President Kennedy. Along with this, months before the shooting, Kennedy signed in an executive order with the authority to strip the Rothschild Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. By doing this, Kennedy declared that the privately owned Rothschild Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. It has been said that the owner of the Rothschild Federal Reserve Bank, Jacob Rothschild, ordered the president’s assassination in hopes to reverse the executive order.
Cuban Exiles-
After Fidel Castro was brought into power in 1959, thousands of cubans left Cuba to live in the US, with hopes to eventually overthrow Castro one day and return to their homes. After the Bay of Pigs invasion in the early 60’s failed, many Cubans hopes were defeated and with that, they blamed President Kennedy for the failed invasion. Later, The House Select Committee on Assassinations claimed that it was possible that Cuban Exiles might have played a role in the murder, but also stated that the available evidence does not confirm the possibility that exiled Cuban individuals may have been involved.
On November 21, 1963, President Kennedy, along with Jackie Kennedy, traveled to Texas where they planned to make several appearances in an effort to gain support for the Democratic Party before the 1964 presidential election. Prior to the trip, several White House officials warned the president that going to texas was a bad idea because the state was so densely republican and therefore, he might have been in for a hostile environment towards his democratic views. Kennedy rebuffed their advice and made the journey anyways.
The next day, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 P.M, Kennedy was fired upon while riding in an open top car in Dallas. The official reports state that there were 3 shots all fired from a rifle on the 6th floor of the …show more content…
Book Depository building. The first bullet missed the president, while the second penetrated the back of his neck. Kennedy was wearing a steel-boned back brace which unfortunately held him in an upright position so that the final bullet was able to fatally strike the back of his head. Directly after the shooting, Kennedy was sped to the closest hospital where surgeons tried to save the president's life. However, in all probability, Kennedy was instantly killed from the impact of the third bullet. At 1 P.M, President Kennedy was announced dead. Two hours after Kennedy’s death, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn into office on board the Air Force One.
An hour after the shooting, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on the suspicion of President Kennedy’s murder.
Unfortunately, just two days later, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner, and was unable to defend the allegations presented against himself.
Lee Harvey Oswald:
Shortly after the assassination, newly made President Johnson made a commission to investigate Kennedy’s death. The commission lasted nearly a year, concluding that Oswald had acted alone in shooting the president and there was no conspiracy involved. Unfortunately, the commission, however firm it may have seemed, failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event.
Conspiracy …show more content…
Theories:
Decoy hearse and wound alteration-
A scenario, presented by David Lifton, claims that conspirators on the Air Force One while travelling from Dallas to Washington, removed President Kennedy's body from its original bronze casket and then put it in a shipping casket.
Allegedly when the plane arrived at Andrews Air Force Base, the President's body, whilst in the shipping casket, was flown to an unknown location by helicopter after being removed from the side of the plane that was unable to be seen by the televisions camera. The conspirators supposedly did this for the purpose of surgically altering the body in order to make it appear that he was only shot from the
rear.
Shadow government conspiracy-
There is a theory that suggests a secret or shadow government, including wealthy industrialists and right-wing politicians, having ordered the murder of President Kennedy. Along with this, months before the shooting, Kennedy signed in an executive order with the authority to strip the Rothschild Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. By doing this, Kennedy declared that the privately owned Rothschild Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. It has been said that the owner of the Rothschild Federal Reserve Bank, Jacob Rothschild, ordered the president’s assassination in hopes to reverse the executive order.
Cuban Exiles-
After Fidel Castro was brought into power in 1959, thousands of cubans left Cuba to live in the US, with hopes to eventually overthrow Castro one day and return to their homes. After the Bay of Pigs invasion in the early 60’s failed, many Cubans hopes were defeated and with that, they blamed President Kennedy for the failed invasion. Later, The House Select Committee on Assassinations claimed that it was possible that Cuban Exiles might have played a role in the murder, but also stated that the available evidence does not confirm the possibility that exiled Cuban individuals may have been involved.