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Spotlight on the JFK murder case - Coggle Diagram
Spotlight on the JFK murder case
Lee Harvey Oswald
principal suspect of JFK and J. D. Tippit's murder case
marine officer
CIA agent ?
gun matched the bullet
killed two days after he went to prison by Jack Ruby
A year later, a commission of Washington insiders concluded Oswald acted “alone and unaided.” JFK’s death was not politically motivated, it was proclaimed.
John F. Kennedy
President of the US
liberal president
was challenging the country to embrace civil rights and “a strategy for peace” to end the Cold War
35th US President
faces many crisis
Cuba
Berlin
achievments
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Alliance for Progress
assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas
Assassination
Dallas, Texas
November 22, 1963
two rifle bullets
main suspect: Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission Report
Theories on his death
The Grassy Knoll
there was "probably" a second shooter on the "grassy knoll," a hill overlooking the site where Kennedy was assassinated in his motorcade.
The Umbrella Man
why would someone carry an umbrella on a sunny day?
Louie Steven Witt carried a black umbrella with him to Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963
some claim that he was giving a signal
It was a mob hit
organized crime
the mafia helped JFK win the election in 1960
Kennedy was unsuccessful in overthrowing Fidel Castro in Cuba
meaning the mafia-run casinos remained shutdown
Robert Kennedy, was cracking down on the mob in his role as attorney general, pursuing a case against Jimmy Hoffa
CIA involvement
the government did it
Detested in the Pentagon and CIA as a weakling and traitor
the official story of a “lone gunman” isn't credible
The CIA
knew far more about Oswald, the supposed assassin, before JFK was killed than they disclosed to investigators. Declassified records and interviews demonstrate that the agency settled on the story of a “lone gunman” in order to conceal its deep pre-assassination interest in Oswald from law enforcement, Congress, and the American people.
Ted Cruz's father's involvement