Jfk Assassination Case Study
The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Case Study It was the 22nd in November of 1963, President Kennedy and First Lady, Jacqueline had just arrived in Dallas, Texas to gain the support of the Dallas people, which he did not gain in the 1960 presidential election. Around 12:30 pm the car which contained President Kennedy passed by a book depository which contained the soon to be assassin. Three shots rang out; two hitting Kennedy, one hitting a bystander. The car that carried Kennedy sped to the nearby hospital of Parkland Memorial Hospital, were attempts were made to revive the president, but it was too late, he was already dead. There have been many conspiracies as to who planned the assassination of John Kennedy. Rumors began to fly as to how planned it: Castro forces, the Mafia, the FBI, the CIA, the KGB, and Lee Harvey Oswald, but many believed that a “lone gunman” could not have committed the murder. The main suspect was Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old ex-Marine who was known to read Marxist literature. Shortly after being discharged from the Corps in September of 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald went to Moscow to defect from the United States, although his request for residency was denied he was allowed to stay within the USSR where he met his wife. Soon after he moved back to the States only to focus his interests on Cuba and Fidel Castro, where he then ended up in Mexico City, where he applied for a visa to Cuba. Frustrated by delays, he returned to Dallas in October and took a job at the book depository. On the morning of November 22, 1963, Oswald arrived at work carrying a handmade paper bag that he told fellow workers contained curtain rods. Once Oswald had fired those fatal shots he slipped out of the book depository, being discovered by a police officer, who had been searching the building after a witness reported seeing someone with a rifle on the sixth floor, Oswald shot the policeman dead. Two days after the assassination, Oswald was gunned