American Conspiracies

            There is no doubt that the American government has been withholding evidence
            
             of conspiracy activities from the populace, but the question remaining would be how
            
             deep do these secrets run? As a citizen of the United States of America, one deserves the
            
             right to know the truths about certain events. Two of the greatest events shrouded in
            
             conspiracy would be the JFK assassination and the Pearl Harbor bombing.
            
             The assassination of John F. Kennedy happened more that 30 years ago, but
            
             there is no other event that has received such voluminous writing, research and
            
             speculation in the first three decades after it happened. Obviously the most contemplated
            
             theory is the lone gunman theory. "Autopsies reveal that there was more that one shot",
            
             but the government states that they came from single striking range (Griffith 1). If that
            
             were so, then James Tague would not have been struck in the cheek by a flying projectile.
            
             When the shots were fired, "James Tague was standing near the triple underpass in the
            
             Dealy Plaza" (Griffith 2). He was standing about "450 from the TSDB" when suddenly a
            
             bullet struck the curb on Main Street about 20 feet from where he was standing"(Griffith
            
             2). A local officer noticed blood seeping from Tague's cheek. It was most likely caused
            
             by flying concrete after being struck by a bullet. Tague described the mark on the curb, as
            
             it appeared when he saw it: "There was a mark. Quite obviously, it was a bullet, and it
            
             was very fresh"(Weisberg, Case Open, 141; Warren Commission Report 116). The lone
            
            
            
             gunman theory allows for one miss, "yet if the supposed shot from the sixth floor window
            
             hit the curb near Tague, then it was a wild miss"(Griffith 1). The theory that J. Edgar
            
             Hoover proposed was that the lead fragment from the fatal headshot struck the curb and
            
             hit Tague in the...

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