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    JFK LONE GUNMAN

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    pronounced dead‚ and finally‚ at 1:20pm Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson is notified of JFK’s death. At 2:38pm‚ two hours and eight minutes after Kennedy’s assassination‚ Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as the 36th president of the United States of America. Evidence gathered (and available to the public) concerning the assassination of President John F Kennedy overwhelmingly supports the theory of a lone gunman. It is a well-known fact that President John F Kennedy was shot dead‚ assassinated

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    History Repeating Itself

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    Over the span of American history about twelve U.S. presidents were either assassinated‚ survived an assassination attempt‚ or died in office. History repeats itself every time a president dies‚ or almost dies‚ in office. “There are only patterns‚ patterns on top of patterns‚ patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close‚ history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call

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    Jfk Conspiracy Theory

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    Warren Commission established but a week after the shooting. The Commission involved seven men‚ including none other than Allen Dulles (www.rutherford.com). The Warren Commission hid information from the public about who was responsible for the assassination. The “debriefing” files for Clay Shaw were not stored in the Domestic Contact files as if they should have if it was just a debriefing‚ but stored in the Operations Division‚ proving that they had something they needed to hide in those files (www

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    Jfk Research Paper

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    Warwick Valley Middle School The JFK Conspiracy ELA 8H Mytch Cime March 17‚ 2010 Cime 1 The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was one of the most tragic moments in American history. At the time of his death‚ America was at the height of the Cold War. The nation was also just affected by the Cuban Missile Crisis as well. Kennedy’s death left the nation helpless and feeble anticipating the worst has yet to come. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 17‚ 1917 in Brookline Massachusetts

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    The Mafia Theory

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    The mafia theory. David E. Scheim has published two books claiming that the Mafia were responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He believes that it was organized by Carlos Marcello‚ Santos Trafficante and Jimmy Hoffa. This theory is based on the idea that the Mafia were angry with both John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy for their attempts to destroy organized crime. Scheim’s theory was supported by Trafficante’s lawyer‚ Frank Ragano‚ who published the book Mob Lawyer‚ in 1994. The

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    Kennedy’s Assassination Week 3 Topic Amanda Murray Devry University – Melissa Tennyson On November 22‚ 1963 one of the largest turning points during the 20th century‚ it was the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. “JFK’s death seemed symbolic: a man in whom so much hope had been invested was cut off in his prime‚ during his first term as President‚ before he had a chance to show what he could achieve.” (Bennett) This time of history was more than just an event it changed the

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    Jfk Conspiracy Theories

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    Bullet” and the questionable trajectory of the shot is something that cannot go overlooked. On the whole‚ it is separate investigations and findings that have unearthed new evidence about the Kennedy assassination. In 1979‚ Congresses’ House of Assassinations Committee decided to look into the assassination of President Kennedy themselves. In their research‚ they found evidence that a fourth shot was fired during the shooting. Using a recording from the radio of a police officer present on the day

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    found interest in the enduring mystery of who his assassin was and the reasoning behind the killing of a President so beloved to the nation. Providing evidence to this claim are more than two thousand volumes that have been published about his assassination‚ of which‚ a majority of those included a conspiracy theory (McHoskey 395). Harvey Lee Oswald did assassinate John F. Kennedy‚ but he was affiliated with the Soviet Union and was not just an independent gunman. Many Americans

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    25th amendment

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    volition may turn over the power of his office to the vice president. Second; the vice president‚ with the assent of a majority of the leading member of the cabinets‚ may make himself acting president on a temporary basis. Due to President Kennedy’s assassination‚ congress finally proposed this amendment. On February 10‚ 1964‚ when the amendment was first passed‚ Ford who was current president- was the first president to benefit from the amendment which he had helped to draft. He nominated Nelson. A Rockefeller

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    Matteo Bellani 3H History Common Assessment: the Assassination of the Archduke Was the Most Important Cause of WW1. Do you agree? Two bullets fired in a Sarajevo back-street on the morning of the 28th June in 1914 set in motion a series of events that have shaped the world we live in today: World War One‚ World War Two‚ the Cold War and their conclusions all trace their causes to the gunshots that shook that summer day. But why was this so important? Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant

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