JFK assassination conspiracy

             Adolph Hitler, the former dictator of Germany, once said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it."
             con-spir-a-cy (k n-spir -s ) n. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or to accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
             On November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was driving in an open, minimally protected limousine with his wife and Governor John Connally. The route was originally scheduled to go straight down Main Street, but a last second route change sent the limousine past the book depository, diagonally down Elm Street (Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins). Gunshots rang out, erupting chaos in the Dallas streets. The President was rendered fatally wounded and Governor Connally had been injured. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at a local cinema on charges of murder of the President. He pleaded and publicly voiced his innocence and his only role of being a mere patsy, though he was believed to be a psychotic Marxist who was the perfect candidate for the assassin for the President. A few days later, Oswald was gunned down by Jack Ruby, who also was later believed to have association with clandestine, anti-Communist operations.
             Since the murder of Kennedy and the Warren Commission's "investigation," many theories have developed pertaining to the murderer(s) and underlying conspiracies. Many subscribe to the "Magic Bullet" and single shooter theory, but evidence to vindicate this theory is very diminutive and incredulous. The Warren Commission blatantly omitted great details that could have led to theories other than the single-shooter theory that many pro-government individuals place their belief in. A few years after the assassination, New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, conducted an investigation in an attempt to both discard the bogus solution put out ...

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