JFK Assassination

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With regards to the cacophony of disarray and doubt cause by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, one indisputable fact remains true today: JFK was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Despite over a half century of official and unofficial investigations, though, there has never been an irrefutable answer as to who actually shot the president on that fateful fall afternoon in 1963. While the formal report liberated by the Warren commission affirmed that Lee Harvey Oswald was the “lone gunman” when he shot the president, not everyone seems to trust it. Over the years, the world has apprehended remarkable stories about magic bullets, about international hit squads, and about shadowy intelligence agencies - both foreign …show more content…

He was the only person observed and photographed with an umbrella on that sunny day in 1963. He was standing and the closest to Kennedy out of everyone there when the 1st shots went off. Witt opened, raised, and rotated the umbrella clockwise, right when Kennedy’s limousine drove by. Richard Sprague and Louie Steven Witt, sat down after the assassination on the sidewalk like a lonely dog that does not know what to do. A little while later Louie Steven Witt was noticed walking toward the Texas Book Depository. Richard Sprague suggested that the opening and the rotation of the umbrella had been a signal to fire the last rounds of shots. Another theory is the umbrella man may have used his umbrella to fire a dart to paralyze Kennedy. The umbrella man is the reason there are now no umbrellas allowed in Dealey plaza on the day that commemorates the assassination. “In all of Dallas, there appears to be exactly one person standing under an open black umbrella. And that person is standing where the shots began to rain into the limousine,” Josiah “Tink” Thompson, author of “Six Seconds in Dallas,” says in a 2011 documentary short by filmmaker Errol Morris. “Can anyone come up with a non sinister explanation for this?”. “One theory is that the assassins wanted Kennedy to know (in his final seconds) exactly why he was being killed,” writes blogger Croft Randle. “The umbrella symbolized Kennedy’s … refusal to …show more content…

Regardless over the past 50 years of official and unofficial analysis, there has never been an incontrovertible answer to the real story of who shot Kennedy on that apocalyptic autumn afternoon in 1963. The Warren Commission pronounced that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only gunman while not everyone seems to believe it. The world has produced many sensational conspiracy theories about the mafia, the CIA, Lyndon B. Johnson, the limo driver, the KGB, the one percent, the illuminate, and even aliens. As time persists, the slender line between fact and myth has disappeared and many people believe different things. The Associated Press has conducted a new poll that shows 50% of Americans believe there were numerous shooters involved. Correspondingly, multiple conspiracy theories have unfolded with regards to the historical disaster, and many have changed the way people think and show that anything can happen to anyone like a flying volcano. The three out of various conspiracy theories are that JFK was most likely assassinated by either the Babushka Lady, the Umbrella man, or even his own wife Jacqueline

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