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John F. Kennedy(JFK):
- 35th president-1961-1963
- Served in WW2
- was a US representative and Senator from Massachusetts before becoming president
- Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
- First and only Catholic president
- Youngest elected president and second youngest president
- assassinated in 1963, in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald
- he was in charge of the PT09
- the went out and shot and sunk Japanese cargo ships
1960 Election:
- Ran against Hubert Humfrey
- Went against Nixon
- JFK and Nixons election was the closest election ever..JKF won by like 1.2%
- Ran against Vice-President Richard Nixon
- First presidential televised debates took place
- Many say this helped with JFK election
JFKs Assassination:
- John F Kennedy and his wife were riding in a parade on a convertible on the way to give a speech when he was shot
- November 1963
- the Texas school book depository
- 3 shots were fired one hit his back and then the one hit his head
- after he was shot they thought they could save him
- Oswald was in the Marines
- he was infatuated with communism
- people thought he was a spy
- when we wanted to go to war with Cuba he went against it
- Oswald worked at the TSBD
- and that's where they think he hide and shot JFK..the 6th floor
- killed the Cop JD Tippet when he got questioned
- Oswald was arrested in the Texas theater
- he fought arrest
- while he was being transported he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby
- Jack Ruby was a strip club owner and was friends with the police
- he was allowed in while they transported him for this reason
- When Ruby shot Oswald he said it was for praise
Conspiracy Theories:
- report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives
- 1978
- said JFK "was probably assassinated as the result of conspiracy."
- the committee was unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy
- magic bullet theory: was 3in, it went in JFK through the back exited his throat, hit Conlley in the arm exited and landed in his thigh
- Grassy Knoll: apparently was gun fire..but how wasn't it..where everyone thinks the second gunman was
Who might have killed JFK?
- The Cubans
- the KGB(USSR)
- The US Mafia: Johns father went after the Mafia after he said he wouldn't and that might have made them mad..Ruby was friends with Mafia.
- the CIA: Kennedy didn't want to give up in Cuba, Military liked Johnston better..sooo they say that they killed him so Johnston would become president
- The Zero Game: Every president that has had an election ending in 0 has died in office or been shot.
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