The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy Or Single-gunman?
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Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II, once said,
"The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may
sound ludicrous, we can see many example of this in the world's history.
One example would have to be the John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination.
For over thirty years the people of the United States were led to believe
that a single gunman shot and killed Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963,
at 12:30 p.m... However, in this paper, I will dispute the ancient
analization of the facts that show a single gunman was involved, and try to
show that a conspiracy must have been present.
According to the old facts regarding the case of the JFK ...
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days later, Oswald was killed
by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the
city to the county jail.
At a glance, the above story sounds as if this should be an open-and-shut
case. After all, according to the facts above, Oswald must have killed
Kennedy. However, you must take a deeper look into this case. Many people
who witnessed the murder of John F. Kennedy dispute the facts above, saying
that they heard shots from places besides the book depository, and other
things that may contradict what is stated above. One of these witnesses,
Abraham Zapruder, captured the entire assassination on his Bell and Howell
eight millimeter movie camera. This movie, cleverly called the Zapruder
Film, is the single best piece of visual evidence in this case.
In order to more clearly understand the Zapruder Film, it is necessary to
break it down into frames. The particular Bell and Howell movie camera
that Zapruder was using ran at eighteen and three-hundredths ...
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Z313, as well as it's more
distant origin,
most witnesses were unable to hear this shot.
Thus, the above is when the bullets hit either Kennedy or Connally, or
passed through the frames of the Zapruder film (in the case of the second
shot).
Of the one-hundred seventy-eight (178) witnesses at Dealey Plaza, one-
hundred thirty-two (132) said that they hear exactly three shots. If
Oswald was a single gunman, it would have taken him at least 2.3 seconds to
reload his Mannlicher Carcano rifle. However, the general consensus of
the witnesses is that they heard a single shot, followed by silence, with
the second and third shots bunched together. For example, Lee Bowers, one
of the witnesses, ...
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