The shots
One of the points that has
been argued is; how many shots were actually fired? Some say three while
others say six or even more. We really don't want to spend much time
on the shots that missed Kennedy and never hit their target, and as
a result of this it would be much easier just to take a look at…
The wounds
During the shooting it was
not only Kennedy that was hit. Governor Conally who was in the seat
right in front of John F. K. also got wounded during the terrible seconds
of the shooting. A total of seven external wounds were added to the
two persons the question is…how?
Let's begin with the anti-conspiracy
explanation mentioned in the Warren Report. According to the report
there was three shots all in all. They also say that one shot missed
its target another bullet caused the fatal head wound and by the method
of disclosure that leaves us with one bullet left…a bullet known from
this day on as "The Magic Bullet".
"The Magic Bullet" alone
should have caused all of the seven wounds by itself, by several analysis
of the Zapruder Film and the victims, experts have succeeded in finding
the exact entries and exits of the wounds. "The Magic Bullet" should
have done the following if the Warren Report is to believe:
1. With a downward angle
of 17 it hits Kennedy in the right shoulder.
2. Then inside his body
it turns upwards and exits through his throat.
3. On the way to Connally
it pauses for 1.6 seconds and the proceeds in a zigzag move into the
Governors right armpit.
4. Inside this body the
bullet takes a turn 27 downwards and destroys Connallys 5th
rib and exits through his chest.
5. Then the bullet turns
right and enters his right hand where it pulverises the radius bone
and exits the hand on the other side.
6. At last the bullet enters
Connallys left thigh where it finally is "put to rest".
7. But it is not over yet!
The bullet falls/crawls out of the Governor and ends up on the stretcher
beside Kennedy in the Parkland Memorial Hospital.
The people who believe that
there was a conspiracy and that there were even more than three shots
fired wouldn't have half the trouble explaining the wounds.
The autopsy
When Kennedy was shot it
was standard procedure to perform an autopsy. According to Federal law
Kennedy was supposed to be autopsied in Dallas, Texas, but this didn't
happen. Kennedy's body was flown back to Washington. Here three Army
pathologists were chosen to perform the autopsy. In the description
of the autopsy there are a lot of things that don't match with the rules
and regulations of how to perform autopsy. Example: The wound in the
throat was described as en exit wound:
1- This was overruled at
a later autopsy. The wound was actually an entry wound.
2- The pathologists weren't
allowed to dissect the throat wound. They were stopped by one of the
men from the different Government agencies represented at the autopsy.
If we are to believe the
Warren Commission Oswald was placed in a window in the Depository were
he was working at the time. Oswald supposedly shot the President in
the back. Yet the fatal shot came from in front of the motorcade. If
you look at the Zapruder-film you'll see that Kennedy's head gets knocked
back and to the left. From this you can conclude that the fatal shot
came from the front and to right of the car. Also if you shoot through
any kind of material the bullet will make a small hole. The exit wound
will be much larger than the entry wound. Doctors at the Parkland Memorial
Hospital witnessed before the Warren Commission that Kennedy was missing
about one fifth or more of the back of his head. It was simply blown
away. Also a large piece of the scull was hanging from the head in the
scalp.
In order to find out where
the fatal shot came from it would be obvious to examine the brain of
the victim. The brain was weighed at the first autopsy but no further
examination was made. When Jim Garrison wanted to prove in court that
Kennedy was shot from the front he tried to get a hold of the brain.
The Department of Justice replied that the brain was missing from the
Room of Evidence. Or to put it in other words: it was gone! Somebody
must have taken it. The brain was never found again. The Department
of Justice had lost a very important piece of evidence.
Now let us take a look at
the back of Kennedy. It was concluded in the Warren report that the
pathologists didn't turn the body over so that they could examine the
back. Quote: " We were only interested in his head!" Unquote. At an
autopsy it is standard procedure to examine every single bruise, wound
and scar. In Kennedy's case it never happened...? This has to be considered
a very serious lack of professionalism.
All in all it is easy to
say that these pathologists either had very poor working conditions
or otherwise they were very bad at their job! Some even go to the distance
of saying that it was a very poor cover up by the US intelligence.
The
Cover up
A cover up was of course
only necessary if the assassination really was a conspiracy. A reason
to believe that there was in fact a cover up, is the suspicious circumstances
that occurred right after the President was killed. Many witnesses said
that they saw strange people walking or running at different places
at Dealey Plaza right after the shooting. The thing is that if they
were investigating further or later at their interrogations they would
be told not to worry and that they had seen nothing suspicious everything
had already been taken care of. A lot of civilians were in one or the
other way forced by phoney Secret Service agents to pretend that nothing
weird had been going on, even if it was against their own personal opinion.
These people were told to remain silent about the happening in the future.
A number of witnesses have even been "removed" under distrustfully circumstances
and others again claim that their testimonies have been altered in the
Warren Report.
Presuming there was a cover
up one must kind of admire that this succeeded so well that it has not
been discovered 100 % even thirty years after. But it is also very frightening
at the same time as it for sure pins out that it was the very top of
the American Government that stood behind this horrible killing of its
own 35th President. The media even supported the Warren Report,
and just this one fact is a great help for the cover up. Instead of
taking a critical point of view on the case and maybe start their own
investigation, they just swallowed the Warren Report raw and as it was.
Credibility
of the Warren report
The Warren report is very
large. The 480 pages contain a lot of information about everything concerning
the murder, and the two characters Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.
Everything about them is in this report.
It lacks basic professional
structure and numerous other things. The Warren Commission doesn't follow
up on important leads and doesn't care about credible witnesses. Furthermore
the Commission makes selective conclusions meaning that it doesn't have
all relevant facts in mind when making the conclusions.
During the period ranging
from 1976 to 1979 an investigation conducted by the House of Committees
made it clear that the murder of John F. Kennedy actually could involve
a conspiracy. The House of Committees asked the Department of Justice
to investigate the murder in order to overrule the Warren report. As
of today we're still waiting for this to happen. The Department of Justice
hasn't made an investigation and probably never will.
It should be said that this
is the opinion of Jim Garrison and some other sites on the Internet.
We can of cause not yell about a bad report if we haven't read from
one end to another. We have NOT read the Warren report. Only extracts
of it. But in those extracts we have come to the opinion that Garrison
was right. The report tells us a little about a point but suddenly start
on a totally different point. That is pretty disturbing.
SQUARE
PEG FOR A ROUND HOLE
(Book
by American career police officer)
What you will be reading
in Square Peg For a Round Hole is my passion for the Truth of the Assassination.
My disgust for the Government cover-up of such a despicable crime. The
audacity of those in power to assume that they could tell us anything
they wanted and we would believe it because; we should never question
our Government. This philosophy doesn't work anymore. People are hungry
for the Truth. The private sector is now the only place the people can
find the truth.
Connections?
After the assassination
of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, it wasn't over yet. A couple of
other killings occurred and gave the public something to think about.
Especially two of these killings were of a certain interest to the people
that believed that JFK was assassinated by a conspiracy. Both his own
brother Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were killed in 1968 by
powerful forces.
Martin Luther King was as
well as JFK fighting for better or equal rights for the black people
in America. He told the world that he had a dream, and he was determined
to make that dream come true. On April 4th at 6:01 p.m. 1968
the dream seemed to end though, MLK Jr. was shot by James Earl Ray under
at least as suspicious circumstances as JFK. Paradoxically his brother
was murdered as well!
Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy
was following his older brothers' footsteps and was elected as Senator
later he was as already mentioned killed. This happened on June 5th
1968 at about 12:50 a.m. and the assassin was a Palestinian Arab by
the name Sirhan Sirhan who shot RFK at point-blank range. About two
months earlier Robert Kennedy said the text quoted below:
"We've had difficult
times in the past. We will have difficult times in the future. It is
not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; it is not
the end of disorder."
Robert F. Kennedy, April
3rd 1968
Why
the JFK case still matters
Today the case of the JFK
assassination matters just as much as in 1963. During the years that
followed, the only thing that everybody wanted was the truth… everyone
except the US Government. Neither the Department of Justice nor the
Government have made any significant effort that could prove that there
actually was a conspiracy. They took the word of the Warren Commission
as a job well done. Never did any of the two parts even try to reopen
the case.
Part of the population of
America is very eager to known the truth about the murder of JFK. Maybe
they already know but don't want to admit the fact that it really was
the job of a crazed gunman. The population might in the end develop
a kind of distrust in their own Government. In the words of Dr. Cyril
Wecht, a forensic expert recognised by the US Government, the assassination
of John F. Kennedy was a coup d'etat. According to his own opinion he
has to be right because he is convinced that Kennedy was the victim
of a conspiracy made by the top of his own Government. Not only involving
the top of the Government agencies and the cover-up made by the same
agencies. Kennedy was very popular all over the country except in the
South. It was known many months in advance that the President was going
to Texas on his reelection campaign. Dallas was known as a so called
"hostile city". This had to be the perfect spot for the murder. Cyril
Wecht is afraid that the American population with time will lose its
patience with its Government. A nation cannot grow and gain prosperity
as long as the population defies the Government because of something
that happened more than 30 years ago. All it takes is an investigation
that would either support the Warren report or overrule it. The last
possibility would of course mean a new investigation that would conclude
who actually killed the President. This would again mean the Congress
would have to rule documents marked as top classified as available for
the population. These documents won't be released until the year 2029.
The Americans will never know what was wrong more 30 years ago.
As time goes by the hunger
for the truth grows and it really started to get hot when Oliver Stone
made the movie JFK and gave the world his view of the case. Numerous
private people and organisations have made it their mission to spread
the facts about the murder to the world and of course give their guess
on who was the murderer. New books, articles, pictures, etc. shows up
every month linking another person to the assassination. Many people
have so to say devoted their lives to finding the killer.
Historians from USA also
think that a lot of incidents followed the slaying of Kennedy. One of
the true ones is the acceleration of the Vietnam War. Some of the more
doubtful ones are the Watergate scandal, the Ruby Ridge incident and
the Waco tragedy. It is next to impossible to connect these incidents
to the Kennedy murder.
Conclusion
In this part we are going
to give a qualified guess of who actually killed President John Fitzgerald
Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22nd 1963.
We can narrow the suspects
down to two if we only think about the money involved.
1- In 1962 Kennedy started
his vendetta against the CIA. He fired the three holy cows inside the
Agency, Dulles, Cabell and Bissell. They were the back bone and were
all three a part of the group of people who made the CIA one of the
most powerful espionage agencies in the world. Kennedy didn't realise
what kind of organisation he started to fight. Not even the current
director of CIA is aware of how many people he can order around all
over the world.
2- The American Military
Complex thrives off war and as mentioned earlier in the report they
would have approximately 190 billion reasons annually for killing a
President who is resisting war in public. Of course all Presidential
candidates resist war during the elections but not many of them do anything
about it when they are finally elected...Kennedy did.
If we consider the suspects
from a social point of view.
1- The exile Cubans would
be more interested in having Lyndon B. Johnson as the President of the
USA as they knew very well that he was much more "aggressive". He would
most likely not withdraw the American forces from all the wars in which
they were participating at that moment.
When everything comes to
an end we believe that the CIA was the initiator of the conspiracy.
But they were extremely well supported by the FBI, top people in the
White House and the Dallas Police Department. Our suspicions are based
on the facts that they had the "best" reasons to get rid of the President
and further more they had the power to cover the whole thing up. Do
not forget that the media even supported the Warren Report, and just
this one fact is a great help for the cover up. Just think of the power
the media have today.
Epilogue
The case of JFK has a lot
of aspects. It is too big to describe in these few pages so we have
chosen the areas that we consider most interesting, vital, and poorly
done by the Warren Commission. If we were to cover the entire case briefly
we could easily write a couple of hundred pages, but we simply didn't
have the time for that. We know now that the subject is way too big
for a college report and would be covered much better if it was a university
assignment. Anyway we hope that you enjoyed reading the assignment just
as much as we enjoyed making it. Left to say is only that we are sorry
that we missed out extremely exiting subjects as:
· Oswald bibliography
· Assassins connection to
other suspects
· Testimonies of witnesses
· And many more
Remark: Billy Joel was inspired
to write the hit "We didn't start the fire" by amongst other things
the assassination of JFK and Martin Luther King. It is about all the
mistakes that happened in the 60's and 70's. The Vietnam War is also
mentioned in the song.
Bibliography
Internet pages:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MGriffith_2/jfk.htm
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/WCR/index.html
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/overview.html
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/intent.html
http://users.southeast.net/~cheryl/probable.html
http://users.southeast.net/~bgoldman/jfk.html
http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com
The above pages were used
as a kind of mainsources, but their respective subpages have been used
as well.
Books:
Mænd af mod, John
F. Kennedy 1956, Samlerens Piccolobøger 1967, 5. Oplag, 98.63
Kennedy - en amerikansk
myte, Søren Mølstrøm 1997, Forlaget Kolorit 1997,
1. Udgave, 99.4
Reports:
Warren Report (by Executive
Order No. 11130), Warren Commission 1964.
Movies:
JFK - The Movie, by Oliver
Stone, released in 1992.
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