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Conspiracy Theories: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy
What really happened on the 22nd of November in the year 1963? This question has lingered throughout minds of American citizens for the past 50 years. Who killed the beloved John Frederick Kennedy? What would be one’s intentions behind this atrocious action? Some say the government was behind his death; others say that it was Lee Harvey Oswald, maybe an African American, or even Jack Ruby. A conspiracy that the government was behind his death is another irrational theory. Over the years a numerous amount of investigators and researches have been evaluating the incident using evidence such as location, purchases made by Oswald, using information from witnesses; they even dug into Oswald’s personal life to find any information that would be a sufficient reason to kill the President. Although there are various conspiracies regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, there is also a surplus of evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed the assassin.
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After the shooting, the rifle purchased by Oswald was found on the sixth floor of the Depository building. (Polidoro 8) Investigators had found the rifle to have hand and palm prints of Oswald on the rifle, as well as fibers from the t-shirt he was wearing that day. (Report of the Presidents Commission..) Do to all the evidence at the location where the rifle was found, other researchers and investigators have done test trials. By doing tests and reenacting the crime scene, they found that the window where the rifle was found in front of on the sixth floor of the Depository Building is a position where Oswald would be able to shoot Kennedy hitting him from behind. (Report of the President Commissions…) Not only are the testing’s accurate but Oswald was also

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