JFK's Assassination
"By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign. Although he had not formally announced his candidacy, it was clear that President Kennedy was going to run and he seemed confident about his chances for re-election."
1. https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president
"President Kennedy was aware that a feud among party leaders in Texas could jeopardize his chances of carrying the state in 1964, and one of his aims for the trip was to bring Democrats together. He also knew that a relatively small but vocal group of extremists was contributing to the political tensions in Texas and would likely make its presence felt—particularly in Dallas, where US Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson had been physically attacked a month earlier after making a speech there. Nonetheless, JFK seemed to relish the prospect of leaving Washington, getting out among the people and into the political fray."
1. https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president
It was raining but several thousand people were waiting for JFK and First Lady Jackie Kennedy.
1. https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president
November 22, 1963, shortly after noon he was assasinated.
1. https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president
The trip was meant to highlight and discuss "natural resource and conservation efforts."
1. https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president
"The motorcade departs Love Field Airport, headed for the luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart."
2. https://www.jfk.org/the-assassination/jfk-assassination-timeline/
Over 15,000 people were awaiting the motorcade, standing on the street cheering for the Kennedy's and the Governor and his wife.
2. https://www.jfk.org/the-assassination/jfk-assassination-timeline/
Part of JFK's last public speech: ""I am confident, as I look to the future, that our chances for security, our chances for peace, are better than they have been in the past. And the reason is because we're stronger. And with that strength is a determination to not only maintain the peace, but also the vital interests of the United States. To that great cause, Texas and the United States are committed."
2. https://www.jfk.org/the-assassination/jfk-assassination-timeline/
The Kennedy's greet the crowds who are showering them with gifts and cheers before getting in the motorcade.
2. https://www.jfk.org/the-assassination/jfk-assassination-timeline/
The motorcade goes onto main street as well, one of the last spots JFK would drive through.
2. https://www.jfk.org/the-assassination/jfk-assassination-timeline/
"Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at President John F. Kennedy. The second and third shots he fired struck the President. The third shot he fired killed the President."
3. https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/summary.html
"The shots that struck President Kennedy from behind him were fired from the sixth floor window of the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository building. Lee Harvey Oswald owned the rifle that was used to fire the shots from the sixth floor window of the southeast comer of the Texas School Book Depository building. Lee Harvey Oswald, shortly before the assassination, had access to and was present on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building. Lee Harvey Oswald's other actions tend to support the conclusion that he assassinated President Kennedy."
3. https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/summary.html
"Perhaps the most frightening theory in circulation is that the Kennedy assassination was an inside job. According to biographer Philip Shenon, that was Bobby's first thought. "Apparently Bobby Kennedy's first suspicion was that it was some rogue element in the CIA," Philip Shenon told NBC News. However, after a meeting with CIA Director John McCone, Kennedy changed his mind."
4. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a13093037/jfk-assassination-conspiracy-theories/
"The House of Representatives may be partially to blame for this enduring conspiracy theory. In 1976, the Select Committee on Assassinations, which reinvestigated JFK's killing as well as Martin Luther King Jr.'s, concluded that there was "probably" a second shooter on the "grassy knoll," a hill overlooking the site where Kennedy was assassinated in his motorcade." ~ Grassy Knoll
4. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a13093037/jfk-assassination-conspiracy-theories/
"The Kennedys were no strangers to organized crime. In fact, some believe the mafia helped JFK steal the election in 1960 by securing votes in the key state of Illinois. However, another conspiracy theory has the political dynasty at odds with the mob. This theory hinges on the fact that Kennedy was unsuccessful in overthrowing Fidel Castro in Cuba, meaning the mafia-run casinos remained shutdown, and that his brother, Robert Kennedy, was cracking down on the mob in his role as attorney general, pursuing a case against Jimmy Hoffa."
4. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a13093037/jfk-assassination-conspiracy-theories/
"This is a relatively new one. During the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Trump implied that his fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz's father was a known associate of Lee Harvey Oswald. "His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald being, you know, shot," Trump said on Fox News during a phone interview."
4. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a13093037/jfk-assassination-conspiracy-theories/
"Why would someone carry an umbrella on a sunny day? Clearly people who believe the umbrella man conspiracy never get sunburned. Louie Steven Witt carried a black umbrella with him to Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, and was caught in the famed Zapruder film raising it into the air as Kennedy's car drove past. Some have claimed he was giving a signal; others think he could have shot a poison dart from the umbrella." ~ Umbrella Man
4. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a13093037/jfk-assassination-conspiracy-theories/
"Shaw was also, unwittingly and mistakenly, part of the city's most infamous connection to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Shaw was the only person put on trial with regards to the Kennedy assassination, and it was all because of a single lie from a single media source printed two years before the president's death."
5. https://allthatsinteresting.com/clay-shaw
"[Jack Ruby] features prominently in Kennedy-assassination theories, and many believe he killed Oswald to keep him from revealing a larger conspiracy. In his trial, Ruby denied the allegation and pleaded innocent on the grounds that his great grief over Kennedy's murder had caused him to suffer "psychomotor epilepsy" and shoot Oswald unconsciously. The jury found him guilty of the "murder with malice" of Oswald and sentenced him to die."
6. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jack-ruby-kills-lee-harvey-oswald
In 1991 a movie directed by Oscar Stones that's plot revolved around the events after the assassination including conspiracy theories, the verdict, etc.
7. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jfk-1991
