Kennedy Assasination

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Kennedy Assassination Coursework
1 Was Kennedy killed by a gunman who acted alone, or was his murder the result of a conspiracy?
A lone gunman did not murder Kennedy; instead, his murder resulted from a conspiracy for a specific reason. Despite the Warren Commission findings that Oswald murdered the president by shooting from Book Depository's sixth floor, critics argued that the findings were a cover-up because they ignored evidence of the potential for a second gunman either in the "grass knoll" in front of the president's automobile or Book Depository (Infobase Learning 7-10).
2 Of what significance was the question of whether the wound in the front of Kennedy's throat was a bullet entrance wound or an exit wound?
Whether the wound in the front of Kennedy's throat was a bullet entrance or an exit would be significant in establishing the potential for a conspiracy to kill the president. An entrance wound would prove that the president was shot from the front, possibly from the grassy knoll ahead. An exit wound implies that he was shot from the Book Depository behind them, thus pointing to a conspiracy to kill the president (In...