The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. in Dealy Plaza. America changed that day. It has never been the same since that day and never will be. Who really shot Kennedy? It has always been a question asked by people all over the world. I think that the United States government knows the truth and they have always hid the truth of what really happened that day. As long as the government can make most of us believe one thing, the …show more content…
The Single Bullet Theory or also known as The Magic Bullet theory was brought into the United States by Warren Commission to explain that three shots fired by single gun-man Lee H. Oswald resulted in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It was brought up by Warren Commissioner staff member Arlen Specter who is now the Senator of Pennsylvania. He stated that a single bullet known as “Warren Commission Exhibit 399” caused the non-fatal wounds shown in both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally. He also stated that the fatal wound to the head was caused by a bullet other than this so-called “Single Bullet”. According to the single-bullet theory, a three-centimeter-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through President Kennedy’s neck, Governor Connally’s chest, wrist, and embedded itself in the Governor’s thigh. If so, this bullet destroyed 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, and about 15 inches of tissue. It then had to strike a necktie knot, remove 4 inches of rib, and shatter a radius bone. The bullet was later found on a stretcher at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas after the assassination. The Warren Commission found that the stretcher was the one that carried John Connally. This bullet became one of the main Commission exhibits known as CE 399. In fact …show more content…
Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Nixon said that he first heard about Kennedy's death during a taxi ride in New York City. However, a United Press International photo taken that day tells a different story. The photo shows a "shocked Richard Nixon" having already learned of Kennedy's assassination upon his arrival at New York's Idle Wild Airport. In other words, before he rode the taxi. Perhaps Nixon was trying to get the attention away from the fact that the plane he had arrived on had came from Dallas, Texas. Indeed, Nixon (as he later admitted) had been in Dallas from November 20 to the 22. While in Dallas, Nixon had attended meetings with right-wing politicians and executives from the Pepsi-Cola company. Both Nixon and Crawford made comments in the Dallas newspapers to the effect that they, unlike the President, didn't need Secret Service protection. This could lead to the fact that they wanted John Kennedy dead. Other facts linking Nixon to the JFK assassination emerged years later during the Watergate conspiracy, some of which were revealed by Nixon's former chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman in his memoir, The Ends of Power. Haldeman cites several conversations where Nixon expressed concern about the Watergate affair becoming public knowledge and where this exposure might