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1 Kennedy Assassination

2 November 22, 1963 JFK was in Dallas trying to get support for next year’s election. Mend fences with Texas Democrats

3 Governor Connally and Senator Yarborough – Different Democrats
Yarborough was a liberal democrat Connally and LBJ were pals and conservative Democrats

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6 6th floor

7 Zapruder Film Abraham Zapruder filmed a silent home movie and captured clear, complete footage from his elevated position. Zapruder This shows the head shot to John F. Kennedy

8 Zapruder 335 - Connally is slumped into his wife's lap
Zapruder Connally is slumped into his wife's lap. Kennedy, now mortally wound leans toward Jackie. That blob on the side of his head is his skull and scalp peeling outward and down. Zapruder Agent Hill struggles to get onboard to help Jackie Kennedy.

9 Kennedy was rushed to Parkland

10 International Responses
70% of all TV owners in the U.S. turned in to watch the news that night. The media continued non-stop coverage of the assassination for days. A long list of roads, statues, plazas and squares around the world came to be memorials for John F. Kennedy

11 Lee Harvey Oswald Former U.S. Marines
Defected to the USSR, then repatriated back into the U.S.

12 Fair Play for Cuba Oswald saw Castro as more of a “pure” Marxist than the corrupt Communist government in the USSR. He planned on defecting to Cuba but was rejected

13 Sniper’s perch Lee Harvey Oswald worked in the Texas Schoolbook Depository, and had a clear view from the sixth floor.

14 Oswald fled the scene His supervisor reported him missing, and he became a suspect Officer J. Tippit stops on the street to talk to Oswald. Oswald shoots him 4 times to death

15 Lee Harvey Oswald walked 8 blocks to Texas Theater

16 Arrested

17 LBJ was sworn on Air Force One

18 Oswald transferred to another jail.
Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, shoots Oswald on live TV.

19 Flamboyant Jack Ruby was well known to Big Jim
Flamboyant Jack Ruby was well known to Big Jim. He had first visited him at his Carousel Club in Dallas 13 years earlier. “Ruby was an odd character. He had a finger in every pie,” he [Detective James Leavelle] explains. “I remember sitting down and talking generally about the club when all of a sudden he became very animated. He stood up and said, ‘Do you know what I’d love Jim? I’d love it if one day you came in and some wise guys tried to make a move at you. I’d step in and save you’. “I said, ‘Why would you want that Jack?’ He just looked at me and said, ‘Cause I want to be a hero Jim. A hero’

20 Case Closed? Oswald fired 3 shots (missed the first one) The government investigated the murder for years and concluded that Oswald acted alone. Virtually no witness at that time gave indication that more than 3 shots were fired at Kennedy. However

21 Composite Conspiracy Story
JFK was killed by a conspiracy of high government officials with LBJ working with the CIA, the mafia and anti- Castro Americans who all want revenge for Kennedy’s lack of support in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. At the same time (in contradiction), Castro killed JFK with Russia’s help. Jack Ruby killed LHO so he wouldn’t talk.

22 A Nation Mourns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqpgcLFlkpc

23 Eerie Coincidence???? Déjà vu?

24 Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in Abraham Lincoln was elected President in John F. Kennedy was elected President in The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both are associated with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both were shot in the head. Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

25 Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners. Both successors were named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor, was born in Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy's successor, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth was born in Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are comprised of fifteen letters. Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.


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