Jfk Assassination Conspiracy Theory
Shelby Sloan
Mrs. Seidel
English 2
24 May 2013
The Assassination that Haunts American Lives
A conspiracy theory is an explanatory proposition that accuses a person, group, or organization of having caused or covered up an event or phenomenon of great social, political, or economic impact. For example, the event of the Watergate scandal is a proven conspiracy theory that Richard Nixon and his aides were behind the cause and cover-up of the Watergate break-in. A conspiracy that has been in debate since 1963 is the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. The conspiracy has left one of the most devastating deaths at question and still haunts Americans today.
The assassination of the president at the time took place in Dallas, Texas near Dealey Plaza. The limousine that President Kennedy was riding in was top down, everyone having great faith that nothing would go wrong, but that was suddenly re-thought when shots were fired at the president as the open limousine headed down Elm Street. Essays such as the famous Warren Report, said the shots were fired from a rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Witnesses also said the same (Spencer). …show more content…
He was angry at the fact that president Kennedy was against the Soviet Union’s active weaponry and that Governor Connolly “rejected him out of the Marines when he lived in the Soviet Union” (Spencer). Another, and probably the most questionable conspiracy theory about the assassination, is that it was part of a bigger plot by the Soviet Union and even some government groups of the United States. The theory suggesting that is the fact that CIA agents were said to have been “angry at the Bay of Pigs incident” or “under the command of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson” (American
Mrs. Seidel
English 2
24 May 2013
The Assassination that Haunts American Lives
A conspiracy theory is an explanatory proposition that accuses a person, group, or organization of having caused or covered up an event or phenomenon of great social, political, or economic impact. For example, the event of the Watergate scandal is a proven conspiracy theory that Richard Nixon and his aides were behind the cause and cover-up of the Watergate break-in. A conspiracy that has been in debate since 1963 is the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. The conspiracy has left one of the most devastating deaths at question and still haunts Americans today.
The assassination of the president at the time took place in Dallas, Texas near Dealey Plaza. The limousine that President Kennedy was riding in was top down, everyone having great faith that nothing would go wrong, but that was suddenly re-thought when shots were fired at the president as the open limousine headed down Elm Street. Essays such as the famous Warren Report, said the shots were fired from a rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Witnesses also said the same (Spencer). …show more content…
He was angry at the fact that president Kennedy was against the Soviet Union’s active weaponry and that Governor Connolly “rejected him out of the Marines when he lived in the Soviet Union” (Spencer). Another, and probably the most questionable conspiracy theory about the assassination, is that it was part of a bigger plot by the Soviet Union and even some government groups of the United States. The theory suggesting that is the fact that CIA agents were said to have been “angry at the Bay of Pigs incident” or “under the command of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson” (American