The Kennedy assassination began and ended
On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was sitting in an open-top car, circling the streets of Dallas, the capital of Texas. Kennedy was in the same car as Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline, then-Governor Connery and his wife, as well as a driver and a bodyguard.
The front and back police cars opened the road, and the people on the left, right and left stopped. Kennedy waved to people with his trademark smile. No one noticed a muzzle sticking out of a window on the sixth floor of the roadside warehouse building.
"Boom! boom! boom! "Three gunshots rang out. Before people could react to what was going on, Kennedy was already lying in a pool of blood.
Thirty minutes later, the hospital announced that Kennedy, the youngest president in U.S. history, had died due to ineffective rescue.
A nation cannot be left without a monarch for a day. Under the U.S. Constitution, then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson took the oath of office by touching the Constitution on Air Force One.
The killer, Oswald, was caught an hour later. But he suffered the same fate before he could answer the questions of the world, nor did he have time to accept the trial of the law. When he was transferred to another prison two days later, a man suddenly emerged from the crowd and shot him.
The man who killed Oswald was named Ruby. During his arrest until his death four years later, he always claimed that the reason for his assassination was that Oswald had assassinated Kennedy, which made Ruby, who had always been particularly respectful and fond of the Kennedy family, "almost crazy".
Since then, the United States has set up several special commissions of inquiry to investigate the Kennedy assassination, the most important of which is the Warren Commission established that year. In its final report, the Warren Committee concluded that Oswald alone had killed Kennedy and Ruby had killed Oswald alone. This is the official conclusion of the U.S. government on the Kennedy assassination.
Conspiracy Theories – The Mysteries and Doubts of the Kennedy Assassination
With the official report, the Kennedy assassination seems to have settled. But because the event was so dramatic, many suspected that there was some sort of conspiracy. According to statistics, between 1955 and 2004, 80% of the American people believed that there was some hidden secret in the Kennedy assassination.
Nor can we blame the people for their good deeds and unwarranted suspicions. After all, there are indeed too many mysteries and doubts in this assassination case, and even the official report is hidden and full of loopholes. Let's pick a few to talk about.
(1) What happened to the person involved in the case
Many eyewitnesses to the assassination claim that the Warren Committee ignored their testimony or that they themselves were intimidated by the Warren Committee. Even more bizarre is the unnatural death of more than 200 people involved in the case after Kennedy's death, including journalists who interviewed Ruby and the leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia. The most important thing, of course, is the bizarre death of two murderers, one of whom was suddenly assassinated two days later and the other who died suddenly in prison four years later due to illness, looking like someone was going to shut them up.
Jane Hale was an eyewitness to the Kennedy assassination. She has been suspicious of the Warren Commission's report and claims she has been intimidated and even threatened with death by the FBI.
(2) Tampered evidence and testimony
In addition to the overlooked testimony mentioned above, some researchers claim that many of the exhibits have been tampered with, including bullets, windshield fragments, ray photos from Kennedy's autopsy, and even the "president's body" itself.
(3) Unconvincing conclusions
The Warren Commission determined that "the overwhelming majority of evidence suggests that three shots were fired." But the 1979 House Special Committee on Assassinations concluded that four shots had been fired, one of which came from a small grassy bag. No one has ever said anything about the government's contradictory conclusions. And more importantly, many of the investigative documents are still hidden by the U.S. government more than 50 years later.
Maybe when you see this, you will say that the above "evidence" is too far-fetched, either it is a coincidence, or it is nonsense, or it is simply empty. So let's introduce one of the most skeptical points of conspiracy theorists– the "single bullet" (or "magic bullet") theory.
(4) "Single Bullet"/"Magic Bullet" Theory
According to the Warren Commission's report, the killer, Oswald, fired a total of three shots. The first shot was empty, the second shot hit Kennedy in the neck, and the third was a lethal shot that hit Kennedy directly in the head.
But many insist that a second shot is simply impossible. Because after being fired, the bullet went through Kennedy's neck, through the chest and wrist of Governor Connery in the front row, and finally into the governor's thigh. That is to say, this bullet penetrated 17 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, 38 centimeters of human organs, caused 7 wounds, and after breaking Kennedy's jacket and tie, it also shattered the governor's radius and finally pierced the governor's left leg. The bullet was eventually found on a stretcher carrying the governor, with a shell intact, with only a slight deformation of the tail.
Just a little imagination shows that such a bullet trajectory is almost impossible to achieve (but not impossible). That's why the bullet is called a "magic bullet" by conspiracy theorists. Based on this, conspiracy theorists have come to another conclusion, that is, there are two gunmen at the scene.
(5) The two-gunner hypothesis
The 1979 House Assassination Task Force analyzed a recording of a Dallas Police Department's radio communications from a microphone on a motorcycle escorting a convoy. Ultimately, the committee concluded that "scientific acoustic evidence indicates that it is likely that two gunmen shot at the president." This conclusion supports the "two gunmen" hypothesis and makes it one of the most agreed conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination.
Many conspiracy theorists are convinced that another gunman is standing behind this fence on a small dirt bag.
The hypothesis of the two gunmen, and all of the above intrigues and oddities, has led many conspiracy theorists to believe that Oswald did not commit the crime alone, but was directed by someone. And the reason why he was suddenly assassinated was because the main messenger wanted to kill people and kill people. In this way, Kennedy's assassination was not an accident caused by a "lone wolf" at all, but an organized and premeditated murder. The Warren Commission's conclusions were completely wrong.
So, who killed Kennedy?
Conspiracy Theories – Who Killed Kennedy?
Dozens of conspiracy theories have been proposed around the question of "who killed Kennedy", including the CIA, the FBI, the KGB, the Mafia, Vice President Johnson, the then Cuban leader Castro, Jacqueline's remarried husband, South Vietnamese President Ng Dinh Yan, the Federal Reserve, the US chaebol... Even aliens. Let's pick a few important "suspects" to talk about.
(1) Lyndon Johnson
Johnson was arguably one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Kennedy assassination, having climbed to the presidency effortlessly, which has made many people suspicious of Kennedy's vice president. Johnson, although vice president, had a long-standing feud with Kennedy. They not only have opposing views, but also represent different interest groups in the South and the North. Kennedy's excessive "protection" of black human rights, as well as his enactment of tax reform policies for Southern oil monopolies, may have infuriated conservative forces in the South, so they joined forces with Johnson to assassinate Kennedy.
Lyndon johnson
（2）FBI
Rumor has it that Hoover, then the FBI's first director, wielded power that made Kennedy very uneasy. Kennedy had always wanted to weaken the FBI and Hoover. And it is believed that it was for this reason that Hoover wanted to get rid of Kennedy in turn. Another piece of evidence supporting this conspiracy theory is that the FBI has repeatedly intervened in the investigation of assassinations.
FBI founder Hoover is also a legend
（3）CIA
Adherents of this conspiracy theory argue that the CIA wants to avenge the failure of the U.S. attack on the Gulf of Cuba (known as the Bay of Pigs) ordered by Kennedy, or that the C.I.A. is likely to want to assassinate Kennedy for fear of being taken away by the Department of Defense. After the shooting, police arrested three bearded, neatly dressed homeless men who were identified as disguised by CIA agents.
Police and the three "tramps" behind them
(4) KGB (intelligence agency of the former Soviet Union)
The tense Cold War situation at the time led many to believe that the KGB, a secret soviet agency, had ordered Kennedy's killing. The reason is that the gunman Oswald had spent two years in the Soviet Union, his wife was Russian, and he himself had contacts with Soviet diplomats. Perhaps the KGB recruited Oswald and made him kill Kennedy.
The murderer Oswald and his Russian wife
(5) Mafia
The Kennedy family had a deep connection with the Mafia. Rumor has it that Kennedy's father used his mafia ties to provide his son with 100,000 votes, which gave Kennedy a slight margin in the White House. In exchange, the mafia leader wanted to become attorney general, but Kennedy did not keep his promise. So the mafia killed this "perfidious" traitor.
Some of the remaining "suspects" we will also pick a few simple words:
(6) Military-Industrial Complex: Kennedy's idea of withdrawing from the Vietnam War infuriated the military-industrial complex that made a windfall in the war.
(7) Castro: Kennedy tried to assassinate Castro many times, and Castro had every reason to assassinate Kennedy.
(8) Joe DiMaggio (Marilyn Monroe's ex-husband): The relationship between Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe is not mentioned here. In short, after Marilyn Monroe died of a drug overdose in 1962, her ex-husband, Joe Dimaggio, believed that she had died because of a special relationship with Kennedy.
(9) Aliens: It is rumored that ten days before Kennedy's death, he had asked for some top-secret information about UFOs and intended to make them public. So the aliens assassinated him...
The Kennedy Family's Curse: So far, more than a dozen People have died. Five years after Kennedy's death, his younger brother Robert was assassinated.
4. Conclusion
What is your feeling when you see this? Do you feel the chill of the wind, or do you laugh at it?
Indeed, the Kennedy assassination has all sorts of doubts and mysteries, which makes it not surprising that conspiracy theories have arisen. But after all, these conspiracy theories are only conjectures, and their authenticity is difficult to determine. The author's introduction of these conspiracy theories is just some popular science, not to encourage everyone to ridicule this matter or Kennedy himself. After all, history deserves to be taken seriously, and the dead deserve respect.
For Kennedy himself, I am not a student of the United States, so I do not make an evaluation. But in the end, I recommend that interested friends read or listen to Kennedy's speech (inaugural address, "We choose to go to the moon", "I am a Berliner", etc.). Regardless of Kennedy himself or his policies, his speech was very exciting and worth listening to.
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