John F. Kennedy

Governor John Connally and Senator Ralph Yarborough

Love Field Airport in Dallas, TX

Parade Route

Dealey Plaza

Zapruder Film

Zapruder 313 - This shows the head shot to John F. Kennedy

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•Zapruder 335 - Connally is slumped into his wife's lap. Kennedy, now mortally wound leans toward Jackie. That blob on the side of his head is his skull and scalp peeling outward and down.

Zapruder 375 - Agent Hill struggles to get onboard to help Jackie Kennedy.

Vice President Lyndon Johnson

Parkland Hospital

Johnson Addresses the Nation

Funeral

Autopsy Photos

Lee Harvey Oswald

In the Marines

                                                                                             

Defection to the USSR

Lee, Marina and baby June

Fair Play for Cuba

Texas School Book Depository

Sniper’s Nest

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Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle

Killing of Police officer JD Tippet

Oswald Arrested in Texas Theatre

Real or Fake??

                                                                                                               

Oswald in Custody

                                    

Interrogation done by Captain Will Fritz

Mugshot

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Oswald Talks to the Press“I’m a patsy”

                                                                                                         

Transferring Oswald to County Jail

                           

Jack Ruby

Oswald’s in Custody

• Walter Cronkite’s TV Coverage

• Oswalds Press Conference

• I'm a Patsy

• Ruby Shooting Oswald

Warren Commission

Earl Warren

Arlen Specter

Conspiracy Theories

• Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives

• 1978

• Said that JFK “was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.”

• The committee was unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy.

Magic Bullet Theory

Magic Bullet

Another Bullet Found in Limo

Grassy Knoll

Who might have killed JFK?

• The Cubans(x2)

• The KGB(USSR)

• The US Mafia

• The CIA(US Gov’t)

• The Zero Game

Was Nixon Involved?

• Dirty Politics--Nixon, Watergate, and the JFK Assassination

The Three Tramps

Tramps Close Up

• E Howard Hunt ?

• Frank Strugis ?

JFK Act

• Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Act), mandating the gathering and opening of all records concerned with the death of the President Kennedy.

• Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

Both are associated with civil rights.

Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both successors were named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor, was born in 1808.Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy's successor, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.Both names are comprised of fifteen letters.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

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