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Argumentative Essay: The Death Of John Kennedy

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Being accused of committing a crime is a serious matter. Once you are convicted you deserve to be punished for some time. For instance, if a person commits a murder they deserve to go to jail for a long time because no one person is that superior to take away another man's life. Then again what if that person didn't pull the trigger? What if the person was always at the wrong place at the wrong time? What if that person was falsely accused to take the blame for someone else's actions? What if that person had no intent to kill and was oblivious to the entire crime? Then you begin to wonder if you have the right convict. If you believe that no one should be accused of a crime that they did not commit, then you should take a closer look at the …show more content…

He is hardly dead when the official version is broadcast. In that version, which will be the definitive one, Lee Harvey Oswald alone has killed John Kennedy. The weapon does not coincide with the bullet, nor the bullet with the holes. The accused does not coincide with the accusation: Oswald is an exceptionally bad shot of mediocre physique, but according to the official version, his acts were those of a champion marksman and Olympic sprinter. He has fired an old rifle with impossible speed and his magic bullet, turning and twisting acrobatically to penetrate Kennedy and John Connally, the governor of Texas, remains miraculously …show more content…

But no one knows, no one will ever know what he has to say. Two days later he collapses before the television cameras, the whole world witness to the spectacle, his mouth shut by Jack Ruby, a two-bit gangster and minor trafficker in women and drugs. Ruby says he has avenged Kennedy out of patriotism and pity for the poor widow. Almost everyone, it seems, has been heard from on the Kennedy assassination and on Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt or innocence, except one person—Lee Harvey Oswald himself. From the time of Oswald's arrest to his own assassination at the hands of Jack Ruby, no formal transcript or record was kept of statements made by the alleged killer. It was said that no tape recordings were made of Oswald's remarks, and many notes taken of his statements were

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