What Are John F Kennedy's Conspiracy Theories
One of the aspects that I chose for Kennedy assassination was The Conspiracy Theory. There are many conspiracy theories about John F. Kennedy. Some of those theories are; Lee Harvey Oswald, magic bullet, and the umbrella man. First is Lee Harvey Oswald. There were many conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963. These theories suspect that the assassination involved people or organizations other than Lee Harvey Oswald. Most current theories put forth a criminal conspiracy involving parties as different as the CIA the Mafia, that had sitting Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson, Cuban President, Fidel Castro, the KGB or some combination of those realities. Some conspiracy theories claim that the United States government covered up crucial
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information in the aftermath of the assassination.
No single theory is widely accepted. In the year of 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that only Lee Harvey Oswald was the one that was responsible for the assassination of Kennedy. In the year of 1979, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, which was also known as HSCA, concluded that a second gunman besides Oswald probably fired at Kennedy. The HSCA did not identify the second gunman, nor did it identify any other person or organization as having been involved. The acoustical evidence that the HSCA based its second gunman conclusion on has since been discredited. The public opinion polls have consistently shown that a majority of Americans believe there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. The Gallup polls have found that there was only 20-30% of the population believe that Oswald had acted alone. These polls have shown that there is no agreement
on who else may have been involved. There was a Los Angeles District Attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, estimated that a total of 42 group, 82 assassins, and there were 214 people had been accused in various Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. Next is the magic bullet. This theory was introduced by the Warren Commission in its investigation of the assassination of President John Kennedy to explain what happened to the bullet that had struck John in the back and then exited through his throat. The lack of damage to the limousine consistent with it having been struck by a high-velocity bullet and the fact that Texas Governor John Connally was wounded and was seated directly in front of the president, the Commission concluded they were likely struck by the same bullet. So the theory, was generally credited to Warren Commission staffer Arlen Specter advances that a single bullet caused all of the wounds to the governor and the non-fatal wounds to the president. According to this theory, a three centimeter long copper-jacketed lead core Mannlicher-Carcano rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through President Kennedy’s neck and Governor Connally’s chest and also wrist and embedded itself in the Governor’s thigh. So, this bullet traversed fifteen layers of clothing, seven layers of skin, and also fifteen inches of tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed four inched of rib, and shattered a radius bone. The bullet was found on a gurney and was in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas after the assassination happened. The Warren Commission found the gurney was the one that had borne Governor Connally. The bullet became the key for the Commission exhibit. Its copper jacket was completely intact. While the bullet’s nose appeared normal, the tail was compressed laterally on one side. Last is the umbrella man. Some of the witnesses there saw a “mysterious” man, who was holding an umbrella as when JFK’s motorcade drove by. On the day of the assassination, the sky was bright and clear and no one in the crowd was wearing a raincoat nor were they carrying an umbrella except one man. That man with the umbrella was standing right where the shots were fired. The investigator Josiah Thompson said: “The only person under any umbrella in all of Dallas [was] standing right where the shots come into the limousine. Can anyone come up with a non-sinister explanation for this?” The man carrying the umbrella had to explain himself. The guy with the umbrella was named Louis Steven Witt testified before the house select committee on assassinations that the umbrella was a protest against the appeasement policies of JFK’s fathers. The umbrella was a reference to the trademark accessory of Neville Chamberlain, which was nicknamed the Umbrella Man, who was prior to the Second World War had advocated making concessions to the Nazis to try to avoid conflict. Many people had accepted Witt’s explanation. You can see that these theories could all be true. There were several more Conspiracy theories about John Kennedy. I picked the ones that I thought that would be true. That is why I chose the theories of Lee Harvey Oswald, the magic bullet, and the umbrella man.
information in the aftermath of the assassination.
No single theory is widely accepted. In the year of 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that only Lee Harvey Oswald was the one that was responsible for the assassination of Kennedy. In the year of 1979, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, which was also known as HSCA, concluded that a second gunman besides Oswald probably fired at Kennedy. The HSCA did not identify the second gunman, nor did it identify any other person or organization as having been involved. The acoustical evidence that the HSCA based its second gunman conclusion on has since been discredited. The public opinion polls have consistently shown that a majority of Americans believe there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. The Gallup polls have found that there was only 20-30% of the population believe that Oswald had acted alone. These polls have shown that there is no agreement
on who else may have been involved. There was a Los Angeles District Attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, estimated that a total of 42 group, 82 assassins, and there were 214 people had been accused in various Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. Next is the magic bullet. This theory was introduced by the Warren Commission in its investigation of the assassination of President John Kennedy to explain what happened to the bullet that had struck John in the back and then exited through his throat. The lack of damage to the limousine consistent with it having been struck by a high-velocity bullet and the fact that Texas Governor John Connally was wounded and was seated directly in front of the president, the Commission concluded they were likely struck by the same bullet. So the theory, was generally credited to Warren Commission staffer Arlen Specter advances that a single bullet caused all of the wounds to the governor and the non-fatal wounds to the president. According to this theory, a three centimeter long copper-jacketed lead core Mannlicher-Carcano rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through President Kennedy’s neck and Governor Connally’s chest and also wrist and embedded itself in the Governor’s thigh. So, this bullet traversed fifteen layers of clothing, seven layers of skin, and also fifteen inches of tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed four inched of rib, and shattered a radius bone. The bullet was found on a gurney and was in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas after the assassination happened. The Warren Commission found the gurney was the one that had borne Governor Connally. The bullet became the key for the Commission exhibit. Its copper jacket was completely intact. While the bullet’s nose appeared normal, the tail was compressed laterally on one side. Last is the umbrella man. Some of the witnesses there saw a “mysterious” man, who was holding an umbrella as when JFK’s motorcade drove by. On the day of the assassination, the sky was bright and clear and no one in the crowd was wearing a raincoat nor were they carrying an umbrella except one man. That man with the umbrella was standing right where the shots were fired. The investigator Josiah Thompson said: “The only person under any umbrella in all of Dallas [was] standing right where the shots come into the limousine. Can anyone come up with a non-sinister explanation for this?” The man carrying the umbrella had to explain himself. The guy with the umbrella was named Louis Steven Witt testified before the house select committee on assassinations that the umbrella was a protest against the appeasement policies of JFK’s fathers. The umbrella was a reference to the trademark accessory of Neville Chamberlain, which was nicknamed the Umbrella Man, who was prior to the Second World War had advocated making concessions to the Nazis to try to avoid conflict. Many people had accepted Witt’s explanation. You can see that these theories could all be true. There were several more Conspiracy theories about John Kennedy. I picked the ones that I thought that would be true. That is why I chose the theories of Lee Harvey Oswald, the magic bullet, and the umbrella man.