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Who killed Who killed J.F.K.???J.F.K.???

Friday, November 22, 1963

•Kennedy arrives in Dallas, TX to drum up support for the 1964 Presidential Election.

•Presidential motorcade leaves Love Field and travels to the Dallas Trade Market.

•Motorcade slows through Dealy Plaza……

Something happened on the way to that place……..

• Just before 12:30 pm the motorcade slows to make the corner from Houston St. on to Elm St.

• Motorcade is accelerating from 9 mph to about 25 mph.

• Three shots ring out in the plaza………

• JFK is fatally shot. Texas Governor John Connally is also injured.

• Motorcade proceeds to Parkland Hospital in Dallas.

To the Hospital………

……leaving the hospital.

Kennedy is Declared Dead

• JFK is officially declared dead at 1:33 pm Central Standard Time.

• JFK’s Body is taken to Air Force One at 2:00 pm Central Standard Time.

• Autopsy is performed Friday evening at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

11/22/63

Lee Harvey Oswaldtaken into Custody

• Only employee missing from the Texas School Book Depository.

• Arrested in a movie theatre.

• Suspected of killing police officer J.D. Tippett.

• Claims he is innocent and it is all a set-up – patsy.

Who is Oswald?Who is Oswald?• Troubled and transient Troubled and transient

youth.youth.

• Enlisted in the Marine Enlisted in the Marine Corp.Corp.

• Leaves the U.S. to live Leaves the U.S. to live in the U.S.S.R. for three in the U.S.S.R. for three years.years.

• Returns to the U.S.Returns to the U.S.

The Murder of a killer???

Dallas Nightclub Owner

Jack Ruby

Sunday, November 24, 1963

Kennedy is buried

John Jr. salutes his father

JFK Gravesite

Arlington National Cemetery

Warren Commission• Supreme Court

Chief Justice Earl Warren is picked to lead the investigation.

• Commission gathers evidence and files a report.

• Report is filed in 10 months. Chief Justice – Earl Warren

Warren Commission Report• Lone Gunman –

Lee Harvey Oswald

• Fired 3 shots from 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository.

• Oswald has a shady past.

Texas School Book Depository

Zapruder Film•Abraham Zapruder was at Dealy Plaza to see President Kennedy.

•Recorded the motorcade on a Bell & Howell 8mm movie camera.

•“Key Evidence” used by the Warren Commission.

Magic Bullet Theory

C.E. 399C.E. 399

October 26, 1963 – Amherst College

November 18, 1963 – Tampa, Florida

Unanswered Questions

Was there a second gunman on the Grassy Knoll?

Botched Autopsy

No Brain……

Why was LBJ in Dallas?

Accuracy of the rifle

Magic Bullet Theory