ENGLISH 101: John F. Kennedy Assassination controversy Research Paper

Name: CHAQUETA JONES
Instructor: Ms ELISE
Course: ENGLISH 101
Date: OCT. 17, 2013
John F. Kennedy Assassination controversy
In November 22, 1963 morning , US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, boarded Air force One to Texas Dallas after giving speech in Fort Worth. On arrival in Love Field Airport, the President’s motorcade was ready for the Dallas trip that was scheduled to give him utmost exposure to the enthusiastic crowds. He was accompanied by his wife Jacqueline, the Vice-President Lyndon Johnson, Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie Connally. During the procession, a sniper fired shots at the president, two bullets hitting him, one in the head and one in the neck (Bugliosi). The president was taken to The Parkland Hospital where he was pronounced dead in the emergency room. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with killing him. A Commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren was formed to conduct further investigations on the assassination.
The Warren Commission was created by the President Lyndon B. Johnson to probe the assassination. The commission mainly conducted its business in closed sessions, the public was not allowed in during the proceedings except if the witness requested an open hearing and only one requested a public hearing. Although the hearings were conducted in private, witnesses that would stand before the Commission were allowed to repeat freely to anyone what they said, their testimony was consequently published in the volumes put out by this Commission. The commission’s 889-page report presented to President Johnson indicated that Lee was unaccompanied in killing John F.Kennedy.
Following its report and investigat...