Many people wonder why the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy is still questionable. For those who have not closed the books on this mystery, there are many reasons why. Those who were alive on November 22, 1963 still remember exactly where they were and what they were doing. It seems as if the whole country froze the day the President was assassinated, and this is why people still talk about it, and will continue to do so. There are many questions that have yet to be answered, files that have not been opened, and supposed lies that have been made. Some believe that the government is hiding information from the American people. I became interested in the assassination of John F. Kennedy after watching the Oliver Stone film JFK. It is true that some of the material in the movie is controversial, but a lot of the information is based on real reports. New government documents have also been released that reveal more information that was not known thirty years ago. The following information supports my belief that the death of President John F. Kennedy was not the result of a lone gunman, but the result of a conspiracy.
"The Warren Commission consisted of seven men chosen to investigate the assassination of JFK. They concluded that the shots were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald from the 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas."(Grunwald, 34) Some say that the purpose of the Warren Commission was for "damage control" on the United States International Image. In the Commission, Howard Brennan, a witness to the assassination said that he saw Oswald firing a rifle from the Book Depository. He concluded that Oswald was standing in the window and was able to estimate his height and weight from that. However, Brennan failed to pick Oswald out of a lineup at Police Headquarters and was only able to identify his corpse as being the man he saw in the window. Also, the window was r...