The Kennedy Assassination

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This paper discusses whether there really was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. The paper looks at how we may never really know positively, despite the efforts of the Warren Commission to go on record and state, unequivocally, that Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President, that there was no conspiracy, and there were no co-conspirators.

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"There are a number of others who disdain the lone gunman theory., One author, David S. Lifton, believes he has found a document that leads to more than a single shooter. But, as his law professor pointed out: "If there's another assassin, where's the bullet?" (Lifton, p. xvii) Lifton replied: "They simply took the bullet out before the autopsy....That is why FBI agents...reported that when the President's body arrived at the autopsy room of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, there had been, quote, 'surgery of the head area, namely at the top of the skull', unquote." (Lifton, p. xviii) He, too, began to believe in a conspiracy theory, and tended to agree with much of Mark Lane's theories and evidence."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Baker, Leonard: The Johnson Eclipse, New York: The MacMillan Co., 1966
• Blakey, G. Robert, and Richard N. Billings: The Plot to Kill the President, New York: Times Books, 1981
• Duffy, James R.: Who Killed JFK? New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1989
• Garrison, Jim: A Heritage of Stone, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970
• Kearns, Doris: Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream, New York: Harper & Row, 1976

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