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November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas. 12:30 p.m. Everyone knows where they were when they heard that John F. Kennedy, America's most charismatic president, had been shot while his motorcade was passing through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Three or four shots are fired, and America's 35th president is wounded. who wanted to kill the youngest president in American history. November 22nd, 1963, Dallas, Texas. President John F. Kennedy had just been shot. His car is speeding toward Six minutes later, a team of medics is working on the wounded president desperately trying to bring him back to life. At this point, no one is sure if he will survive. January 20,
1961, Washington, DC. Since his inauguration as President of the United States at the age of just 43, Kennedy has made many friends. But he also made many powerful and dangerous enemies. They all consider him a threat and would be happy to see him dead. When Kennedy, he became not only the youngest president but also the first Catholic. This is not very popular in the American " Bible Belt", especially in the southern states. Kennedy is also considered a liberal, which is not very popular with the more conservative segments of the country's population. But while the seriously injured president teeters between life and death in a Dallas hospital, the circle of prime suspects can be
narrowed down to four much more dangerous groups. First, it's the mafia. One of the new president's most important supporters during the election campaign was his father, Joseph. And that in itself exposed him to serious danger. An extremely wealthy self -taught businessman with interests in banking, real estate, film production, and alcohol importation. Kennedy Sr., a former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, was fiercely ambitious and eager to see his family in power. and he cared little how he would do it or whom he would involve in the matter. Prohibition in 1933, which had lasted 13 years, Kennedy Sr. is believed to have consulted with a number of leading Mafia figures. He will maintain these contacts. So in the 1960 presidential election, eager to ensure his
son's victory at all costs, Kennedy allegedly made a deal with Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana; he asks the mob to rig votes in some of the city's most volatile districts, thereby ensuring Kennedy's victory in Illinois, a traditional swing state. But, as the story goes, as soon as Kennedy settled into the White House, his father refused to pay Giancana the full amount. The mafia boss is burning with rage. He swears that one day he will get even. The second influential group that poses a dangerous threat is the leaders of the Teamsters, the huge US truck drivers union. One of Kennedy's first and most important appointments as president was the appointment of
his younger brother, Robert, as Attorney General of the United States. Convinced that Jimmy Hoffa, the leader of the Teamsters, is corrupt and working hand in hand with the mafia, young Kennedy takes on him with all his might. He is determined to put Goffa behind bars. Who was he talking to? Who else did he talk to while compiling this report for you? I assume the people involved were around Robert Kennedy cracked down hard on organized crime in general. He does this with the active support of his brother, the president. The mafia's hatred of Kennedy was intensified by the failure of the CIA- backed invasion of Cuba in April 1961. When Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba two years earlier, one of his first
moves was to take control of the gambling industry, which was run by the mafia. The mafia hoped that if Castro was overthrown, they would be able to resume their profitable operations on the island. But the invasion becomes a disaster. The mafia's rage knows no bounds. Now they are starting to think about the unthinkable-assassinating the president. They reason that once he disappears, Robert Kennedy will stop fighting organized crime and leave them alone. The third group in the US that has good reason to hate the president are white segregationists and far-right conservatives in the southern states of America. They are angered by Kennedy's ardent support for Martin Luther King, Jr., the leader of the civil rights movement, as well as his
general support for the full emancipation of black Americans. Finally, a fourth group that may have wanted Kennedy dead were communist sympathizers. They hate him for humiliating Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in the eyes of the whole world when he forced him to retreat during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. The people who now want Kennedy dead are well funded. They also have a long history of organized violence and a reputation for being masters of covering their tracks. Most successful mafia assassinations were carried out by hired killers, while the clients who gave the orders had ironclad alibis. For example, when seven men were shot dead in a Chicago warehouse on February 14, 1929, in an event that
went down in history as the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," the mastermind of the murder, notorious mobster Al Capone, was a thousand miles away, at his home in Miami, Florida. The attempt on Kennedy's life in Dallas 34 years later was no exception. In November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was busy campaigning for a second term. He sought to win votes and raise campaign funds in oil-rich Texas. But for this he needed to increase his authority and appear in person. So he decided to pay a visit to Dallas, the city where he was defeated in the 1960 election. His assistants were very worried. Dallas was a hotbed of crime and violence, with more than 100 murders in the previous 10 months. But Kennedy wouldn't listen.
Another headache for the president's security officers was his insistence on traveling with his wife, Jackie. He knew that everyone would want to see her, and that her undeniable charm and charm would work to his advantage. November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas. When the President and First Lady arrived in Dallas, surprisingly, only moderate security measures were taken. So it Soon Kennedy's motorcade was moving slowly down It was 12:28. The president, accompanied by his wife, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife Nellie, traveled in an open Lincoln Continental limousine. At 12:29 p.m., the motorcade turned right onto Houston Street. After driving a short distance, the cars turned left onto Elm Street. The President
was now driving through Dealey Plaza, heading for the underpass at the end of the road. From there, to the relief of his alarmed security, there was a direct route to the Dallas Trade Center, where he was to give a speech. Kennedy's car was only 65 feet from the Texas Book Depository, which towered over the route. The car was traveling at 11 miles per hour. A little ahead, between the book depository and the beginning of the underground passage, stood a man. He was pointing an amateur movie camera at the presidential car approaching him. His name was Abraham Zapruder, and what he filmed has been the subject of controversy, debate, and speculation ever since. As the car passed the book depository, Kennedy suddenly shuddered and
clutched his neck. He was heard to say, "My God, I've been shot." He was, sitting in front of Kennedy, is shot in the shoulder. Another shot rings out. He hits Kennedy in the back of the head, throwing him forward sharply. A moment later, the president's head jerks back from a blow to the right temple that shatters his skull. Now Jackie is screaming, "Oh my God, they killed Jack. "They killed my husband." The car with the wounded Parkland Memorial Hospital, where it arrives 6 minutes later. We are now talking directly to Parkland.
Connally will survive, but it will be too late to save the president. At 1:00 p.m., he was pronounced dead. Meanwhile, police surround the book depository when a witness reports seeing a man fleeing the building immediately after the shooting. They soon find a high- velocity rifle and three spent shell casings near a sixth- floor window. Meanwhile, another witness says she previously saw a man with a long, narrow case disappear behind bushes on a grassy knoll on Elm Street. 15 minutes after Kennedy's death, police officer J.D. Tippit is shot and killed in public as he approaches a man matching the description of the person who escaped from the book depository. His killer runs into the nearest movie theater. Half an hour later,
the police pull him out of there. This is 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, who has been working at the book depository for the past month. His palm print is later found on the butt of a rifle found earlier. Oswald was once a sniper in the U.S. Marine Corps. It all seems like a pretty obvious thing. In fact, this is not true at all. Moral certainty -I have no doubt that he was the assassin of President Kennedy. November 22, 1963. Love Field, Dallas, Texas. In front of Jackie, still wearing a blood-stained suit, Kennedy's Vice President, Lyndon B.
Johnson, is sworn in as his successor. The president's body is then flown to Washington, D.C. A few hours later, Oswald is charged with murder. November 24, 1963, Dallas, Texas. As Oswald is being transferred from the police station to the county jail, a man runs forward and shoots him with a revolver at point-blank range. Oswald dies a short time later. His attacker is Jack Ruby, the owner of a local nightclub. He says he did it for Jackie. November 25, 1963, Washington, DC. More than a million people fill the streets of the capital as 1963. White House, Washington, DC
. Lyndon B. Johnson, the new president, creates a commission to investigate the circumstances of Kennedy's assassination. It is headed by The commission reports to the president at the end of September of the following year. After weighing all the available evidence and interviewing about 190 witnesses, the commission concludes that Kennedy was killed by just one man, Lee Harvey Oswald, who fired two of the three shots from the Texas School Book Depository. The matter could have ended there, if not for the fact that, despite the commission's findings, a huge number of people refuse to believe that Oswald acted alone. Skeptics immediately perceive the Warren Commission report as an attempt to hide the truth, created only to make the public forget
about the disturbing alternative version: the fate of the country's presidents is now decided by organized crime or the Russians. Most Americans tend to believe that more than one assassin was waiting for John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza that day. Some of the most detailed accounts of President Kennedy's assassination were published shortly after the event. Their authors are convinced that audio and ballistic evidence points to three killers, not one. One of the most compelling is the book "6 Seconds in Dallas," written by Dr. Josiah Thompson, an American university professor, in 1967, just four years after the event. He claims that Kennedy was shot four times, not three as stated in official records.
Carefully examining every frame of the 22- second film shot by Abraham Zapruder at Dealey Plaza, as well as news reports and photographs, Thompson categorically states that the first and second shots were fired from a sixth-floor window of the now- famous Texas Book Depository. According to Thompson, Kennedy's car was driving past the bunker, heading toward an underpass and away from the lunchtime crowds, when he was struck by a bullet that appeared to have a reduced powder charge. This low-energy bullet struck him in the back before becoming lodged in the soft tissue near his throat. However, during the subsequent autopsy, no one found her.
It may have fallen out during emergency CPR, as the relatively intact bullet was apparently found on a stretcher after Kennedy's body was taken from the hospital. The second bullet that hit Kennedy struck the right back of his head and left a huge hole that doctors discovered when they were collecting skull fragments during a hastily performed autopsy in Dallas. However, a third bullet also hit the president almost simultaneously, entering the head from the front right side and leaving a large exit hole in the back of the head.
The remains of his brain and skull bones were later found on the road behind the car. This seems to indicate that the fatal shot must have been fired from the front right. But, according to Thompson, there were four shots fired. So where were they made and by whom? He seems convinced that the first and second shots came from the sixth floor of the Elm Street Book Depository. The third shot, which was fatal to the president, was likely fired from the Dallas County Archives building on Houston Street. And the fourth one was from the so- called grassy knoll on Elm Street, where a woman saw a man with a long, narrow case. It is also alleged that one of the three spent shell casings found on the floor in the book depository was planted. So Thompson states: if
two shots were fired from the hideout and two more from other locations, then there were three shooters. He also questions whether Oswald was the shooter on the sixth floor, despite the palm print on the rifle. Oswald was indeed in the building at the time, but as Thompson points out, his claim of being in the dining room on the first floor, not the sixth, may be true. Dealey Plaza seems like the perfect area for a murder. It is much smaller and more compact than it appears in the photos. The first bullet to hit Kennedy, as further audio analysis of the shots confirms, hit him at a very steep angle. This angle seems much steeper than would be possible if the shot
were taken from a sixth-floor window of a book depository. In fact, it is likely that only one bullet fired from that famous window hit Kennedy. If there was time to fire again in the 6 seconds between the first and last shot, it is likely that the second shot from Oswald's rifle with a telescopic sight flew through the limousine and hit the curb on Main Street. So, as Thompson suggests, the shot from above that hit Kennedy at a sharp angle could only have been fired from the roof of the county archives or the Daltex building on Houston Street. Both buildings are taller than the book depository window and are located slightly to the right. When the second bullet hits the back of Kennedy's head, the force of the impact throws him forward. Then his
head is suddenly jerked back sharply, indicating another hit, this time to the front and side of the head. Such a shot, according to Thompson, could only have been fired by an assassin who was in front or to the right of Kennedy. The only vantage points from which such a shot could be taken were the railroad bridge over the underpass where spectators stood, or the parking lot behind the fence on the grassy hill to the right of Kennedy. This would be an ideal position for a sniper. The immediate shooting scene is hidden by trees, and a parked car could easily have concealed the process of loading the rifle. When this alleged shot rang out, many people in the small crowd turned toward the grassy hill and ran there to see
where the shots were coming from. They reported seeing smoke and smelling cordite. Footprints were found where the killer might have been standing, making the most of this advantageous position. Other suspects carrying strange long packages were allegedly seen rushing Daltex building shortly after the shooting, jumping into cars, and driving away. All of this suggests that Oswald did not act alone. This is supported by the fact that since the entire shooting supposedly lasted only 6 seconds, the chances of one person loading, aiming, and hitting the target three times seem virtually impossible. And when Oswald's rifle was later tested by an experienced
FBI marksman, he was unable to reproduce the claimed rate of fire. So it's entirely possible that Oswald was indeed the scapegoat, as he claimed at the time. He was apparently in the book depository, and But it is not at all clear whether he really pulled the trigger. This could mean that Oswald had an accomplice, or that he was really downstairs in the bunker dining room, as he claimed, and someone else fired the fatal shot. It was reported that the suspects were leaving the shelter immediately after the shots were fired. Perhaps Oswald was just a scapegoat, framed by experienced assassins, three of whom fired the three shots that killed Kennedy.
There is no doubt that on the same day, while trying to escape, Oswald shot and killed police officer Tippit. Perhaps he is also guilty of the Kennedy assassination. And did he have one or more accomplices who were never identified? The mystery deepens when the assassination of Oswald by Jack Ruby is added to the equation. Ruby, the owner of a small nightclub, is believed to have had ties to the mafia. Was n't he ordered to ensure Oswald's silence by killing him The world will never know the truth. If so, it was a notable sacrifice, as Ruby received a death sentence, which was later commuted to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murder in March 1964.
Controversy and speculation surrounding this murder have been going on for over 40 years. In April 2007, a comprehensive 1,600- page book titled "Rebuilding History," written by American attorney Vincent Bugliosi, rejected almost all conspiracy theories and concluded that Oswald acted alone. The following month, researchers in the American journal Annals of Applied Statistics argue that it is not safe to assume that Oswald was the only shooter. By analyzing bullets from the same batch Oswald apparently used, and using scientific methods not available at the time, they suggest that the truth could be definitively established if fragments of the original bullets found in Dealey Square were reexamined.
In later years, a known but unnamed Florida mafia leader claimed responsibility for orchestrating Kennedy's assassination. He did not live long. Of course, a large number of key witnesses died or disappeared after the assassination attempt. This shows significant planning and organization. There are even suggestions that the real killers were probably eliminated, which is why the trail went cold. Since then, conspiracy theorists have had to carefully examine the available evidence to prove their case one way or the other. It was an archetypal modern murder, committed under the bright lights of movie and television cameras. And with such a
charismatic goal, this mystery will likely last forever.
