For years people have
believed in what seemed to be fictional ideas, but recently many of these
beliefs, seem to be a reality. Conspiracy
theories have been around for a long time, when events happen, or appear to be happening;
people create beliefs about these certain event. Popular conspiracies that are
around in the modern day consist of Area 51, the 9/11 attacks, and that the
moon landings were faked by NASA. All of
these have been around for several years, but I’m here to talk about one that
has been around for over 50 years, the JFK assassination. Many believe that Lee
Harvey Oswald shot JFK twice on November 22nd, 1963, but there are
some that believe that it was set up buy a much higher power, the government of
our very own country. What is new about this specific theory is that the US government announced that they will be releasing more information about the assassination in 2030. Now perhaps this
is just a myth, the facts add up to Oswald committing the crime, but perhaps
there is more that meets the eye.
President John F.
Kennedy was shot on November 22nd, 1963, once in the head, and once
in the neck while riding in a limo in Dallas, Texas. The Supreme Court ruled that Lee Harvey
Oswald committed the crime, and that no one else was involved in the assassination. But in a recent poll taken, less than a third
of America’s population believes that Oswald actually committed the crime.
Now what exactly happened,
people are still unsure of. Was Oswald
not alone? Do the trajectory of the
bullets match up to Kennedy being shot from the 6th floor of a building,
or much lower? Perhaps was it even set
up by mobsters or even the United States own Secret Services? There are many theories that exist, all being
extremely rational, and possibly even the truth of what happened.
The most prominent of
the theories states that the assassination was set up by the CIA. Many refute this idea, thinking that there is
no way that the CIA would kill their own president, but the facts do add
up. The CIA had a motive to assassinate JFK
for a few reasons, first, CIA agents were scared that JFK would discharge them
because of his beliefs, and secondly because of a call for change in the CIA
after a failed mission just months prior.
The CIA would even have the ability to set up such an act. Many may think they wanted it to look like an
accident, but the chances of the president dying that way would raise too many suspicions.
These suspicions of the
American people will never truly go away for a while, and more and more will
continue to be looked into. The
government has said one thing about the accident in the past few years, saying
they will release more information about the assassination in 2030, which most likely
means that his immediate family will all be dead by.
Network, Ashley M. Williams. "Who Shot JFK? 6 Conspiracy
Theories." USA Today. Gannett, 29 Nov. 2013. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.
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