Elizabeth+Magalski--JFK+Assassination+FAQs



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__Q. Why would someone want to kill Kennedy?__ **  **A. Anti-communists, anti-Castro Cubans and CIA agents**//-// [|Due to the Bay of Pigs Fiasco*] ** The Mafia - ** Kennedy’s brother, Anthony Kennedy, ordered the FBI to arrest multiple Mafia leaders. Mafia Chieftains then swore vengeance on the Kennedy brothers. ** South- ** Kennedy believed in Civil Rights and the South disagreed // **A**. The Warren Commission’s Conclusion was based on the evidence as follows. // -The shots were fired from a Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5-millimeter Italian Rifle. This rifle was owned by, and in possession of, Lee Harvey Oswald.
 * __Q. What proof is there that Lee Harvey Oswald was the killer? __**

-Oswald carried that rifle into the Texas School Book Depository on the morning of November 22, 1963. -Oswald was present at the window from which the shots were fired at the time of JFK’s assassination.

-Oswald had attempted to kill Major General Edwin A. Walker on April 10, 1963, thus demonstrating his disposition to take human life.

[Spencer, Lauren. //The Assassination of John F. Kennedy.// New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2002]

 **__Q. Did Oswald plea guilty or not guilty? __** **A.** He never went to court but in the two days that the police questioned him, he denied shooting and said he was set up to look like the murderer but never did shoot. **A.** “Based on testimony of the experts and their analysis of films of the assassination, the Commission has concluded that a rifle man of Lee Harvey Oswald’s capabilities could have fired the shots from the rifle used in the assassination within the elapsed time of the shooting.” [Spnecer, Lauren. //The Assassination of John F. Kennedy//.] Furthermore, Oswald possessed a rifle which enabled him to commit the assassination. **__Q. Why did Jack Ruby kill Oswald and was he involved in a conspiracy? __** **A.** Ruby said that he killed Oswald out of “patriotic duty”. Although many theories claim otherwise, the Warren Commission Report proves that Ruby did, in fact, act alone.
 * __ Q. So //did// he actually shoot?  __**

**A.** According to the Gallop Poll, 29% of Americans believed so in the ten months following Kennedy’s murder. Once the Warren Commission Report came out 69% of Americans believed Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
 * __Q. How many people believed that Oswald acted alone in JFK’s murder? __**


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