Further reading for The JFK Assassination
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by John W. Douglass
The Assassination of John F Kennedy, like the 9/11 attacks, is one of those landmarks on the roadmap of American history where the course of history changed forever, and a direct line of causality could be drawn from the moment the clock struck 12:30pm on November 22, 1963 to other historical moments that were the direct result of this death. For many, the death of JFK marks the end of The American Century and the beginning of the empire’s decline.
The official record places misfit assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald in a Texas School Book Depository window with a Carcano M91 rifle pointed at Kennedy’s motorcade as it passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas. Oswald would go on to become the template for the angry loner assassin template. He caught the communism bug while quite young and eventually defected to the Soviet Union before repatriating and returning to darken America’s doorstep once again. But is this what really happened? It’s common these days for people to crawl out of the woodwork and declare something a conspiracy but this assassination is ground zero for the American conspiracy theory.
Numerous theories immediately popped up around the assassination, was Kennedy actually killed by Oswald? Was he killed by assassins on behalf of Fidel Castro? Was he killed by mob assassins on behalf of Fulgencio Batista? Was he killed by the CIA to prevent him from breaking up the agency following the Bay of Pigs fiasco? Was it something even weirder? The official story is full of wild inconsistencies, conflicting eye witness testimonies, excellent amateur film footage which puts the official story at odds with what’s on the Zapruder film, and the death of Oswald by killer, Jack Ruby, while he was in police custody. It’s a wild story.
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