Theories Of The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy

Without a doubt, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is the most intriguing event in the history of the United States. It's because this was a murder that has never been accepted as portrayed by the government (Anonymous, 2013). There are several reasons and theories which have kept this topic in the lime-light for the past fifty years, and it will likely stay there. It has sparked a host of conspiracy theories of which none can be proven, but yet none can be completely disregarded either.
One conspiracy theory focuses on the manner in which accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was murdered by small time strip club owner and mob want-to-be Jack Ruby, is a prime factor contributing to all those conspiracy theories. John Kennedy’s
brother, Robert, served as Attorney General and had a special vendetta against the Mafia and organized crime in the U.S., and worked hard to bring them down. The fact that Ruby shot Oswald in the basement leading out to a parking lot of the Dallas Police Department only enhances the conspiracy theory’s ability grow. These theories are wide ranging from the mob to Lyndon Johnson, whom theorists say plotted the assassination out of fear of being removed from the Democratic Party’s Presidential ticket in 1964.
There are more than ten possible causes of the assassination of John Kennedy.
As mentioned by McAdams (2010), “the immediate cause of President Kennedy's assassination was the blatant lack of security at the time of the assassination”, but there are several other theories that have been proven. Within three short months of taking office, Kennedy sowed the seeds of global discontent with the U.S. with the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion which saw the defeat of anti-Castro forces in an attempt to establish a beachhead in Cuba. Though the assault was planned under Eisenhower, it was carried out under Kennedy.
Later that same Spring, Kennedy was faced with the Berlin Crisis which saw him in a test of wills with the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The Soviet leader had threatened to sign a peace treaty with East Germany and thereby cut off any access to Berlin by the West. Kennedy warned Khrushchev that the U.S. would “maintain those rights at any risk and thus meet our obligation to the people of West Berlin”. The crises subsided after Kennedy activated numerous National Guard and Reserve units with Khrushchev not signing a peace
treaty.
In October of 1962, Kennedy again became embroiled with the Soviet Union and Nikita Khrushchev with the Cuban Missile Crises. Again, threatened with U.S. Military might, Khrushchev backs down, at a cost to the U.S., but he backs down, humiliated, which would have explained any plots of revenge, including the assassination. Immediately after the assassination on Kennedy, Khrushchev was forced to resign his post. Theorist conclude amongst themselves that this was a decision made to keep the United States from waging a war on the Soviet Union, if indeed Khrushchev had ties to the assassination.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who was named the lone shooter, had ties with the Soviet Union and Cuba.
He spent a few years living in the Soviet Union, where he renounced his American citizenship and told the American Consul that he had planned to turn over all secrets that he had learned while serving in the United States Marine Corp. As reported by Edward Jay Epstein (1983), while in Moscow, Oswald wrote of his willingness to commit murder for a political cause: "I want you to understand what I say now, I do not say lightly, or unknowingly, since I've been in the military .... In the event of war I would kill any American who put a uniform on in defense of the American Government --", and then ominously added for emphasis, “Any American." In the Spring of 1963, General Edwin A. Walker, an extreme conservative, who had been active in Dallas organizing anti-Castro guerrillas became a particular focus of Oswald's attention. Oswald repeatedly suggested to a German geologist, Volkmar Schmidt, and other friends, that General Walker should be treated like a “murderer at large” (Epstein, 1983). For weeks, he methodically stalked Walker's movements, photographing his residence from several angles. On the evening of May 9, 1963, Oswald left his home with his shotgun wrapped in plastic, heading for General Walker’s home where he fired a shot at him, missing his head by mere inches. This was his way of proving that he had the capacity and willingness to kill “Any American”. After failing at that
assassination, Oswald then left Dallas for New Orleans where he appeared on radio talk shows with talks of his support for Castro. During his time in New Orleans, he spent much time ranting about the Kennedy administration’s terrorist bandit attacks on Cuba. It was then that he started to plan how he could get to Cuba and join Castro’s military. As far as Oswald was concerned, President Kennedy and General Walker were both actively working to destroy his avowed hero—Castro, which supports the accusation that he was the assassin.
These are but a few of the possible causes leading to the assassination of John F. Kennedy; thereby, the effect of alienating powerful people in powerful places, the Kennedy’s may have brought the wrath of assassination upon themselves on November 22nd, 1963.