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OSWALD:
THE LONE CONSPIRATOR

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     On November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy died of two bullet wounds to the head. The same day twenty-four year old Lee Harvey Oswald was brought into custody. On the 24th of November Oswald was shot to death by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby while in the custody of the Dallas police. What follows is the story of the man accused of killing President Kennedy.

     A high school dropout, Oswald joined the United States Marines in 1956. After expressing pro-soviet views, Oswald secured release from the corps on September 11, 1959. Nine days later, Oswald traveled to the Soviet Union. There Oswald met his wife, Marina Nikolayevna Pruskova, and the two had a daughter, June Lee.  Having been denied Soviet citizenship, Oswald returned to the United States with his wife and three-month-old June Lee in June of 1962.

     In January of 1963, Oswald bought a .38 revolver. In March, he purchased a rifle and telescopic sight through the mail. On the 10th of April, Oswald allegedly attempted to assassinate ultrarightist resigned army General Edwin A. Walker. Later that month, Oswald traveled to New Orleans where he set up a one-man branch of the Fair Play for Cuba committee and distributed pro-Castro material. In September Oswald was denied a visa to Cuba and was also denied readmittance to the Soviet Union. In October, Oswald returned to Dallas where he got a job at the Texas book depository.

     On November 22, 1963 Oswald climbed to the sixth floor of the depository. At 12:30pm Oswald fired three shots from his mail order rifle killing President Kennedy and wounding Texas Governor John B. Connally.

     From the book depository, Oswald took a bus and taxi to his rooming house. A mile away from his rooming house, Oswald was stopped by patrolman J.D. Tippit. Tippit stopped Oswald because he fit the description of the Kennedy assassin suspect. At 1:15pm Oswald killed Tippit with his mail order revolver.

     At 1:45pm Oswald was seized in a Texas theatre by police offices responding to reports of a man fitting the description of the suspect. Twelve hours later, Oswald was formally arraigned for the killing of President Kennedy.

     On the morning of the 24, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby while being transferred from a jail cell to an interrogation office. Ruby allegedly killed Oswald out of rage and anguish over the death of the President. In March of 1964, Ruby was tried, found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. In October of 1966 a Texas appeals court reversed the decision, but Ruby died of a blood clot complicated by cancer on January 3, 1967 before a new trial could be held.

    

 
 

 

 

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Warren Commission
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        Within an hour after the assassination of President Kennedy, the FBI began their investigation.  The next day, FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, concluded that Oswald was the sole assassin.  Deputy Attorney General Nicholass Katzenbach    concurred with the FBI's findings.

        On November 29, 1963 President Johnson issued an executive order forming the President's Commission in the Assassination of President Kennedy.  The commission would come to be known as the Warren Commission, named for its chair, United States Chief    Justice Earl Warren.   Warren was intially reluctant to head the comission, but Johnson was able to convince him citing the need to dispel public suspicion of an assassination conspiracy.

        The Warren Commission was comprised of seven men: Chief Justice Warren, Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, Republican Represenative Gerald Ford, Democratic Senator Richard Russell, Democratic Represenative T. Hale Boggs, former director of the CIA Allen Dulles, and former high commissioner for Germany John McCloy.  The staff of the Warren Commission was headed by J. Lee Rankin who oversaw the daily activities of the commission.

        Rankin divided the investigation into six areas of investigation: basic facts of the assassination, identity of the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald's background, possible conspiratorial relationships, Oswald's death, and presidential protection.  Rankin's investigation relied almost entirely on evidence accumulated by the FBI and submitted to the Warren Commission in the form of a five-hundred page reprt.

        In January of 1964, the Warren Commission began its formal investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy. Ninety-four witnesses testified before the commission.  On September, 24 1964 the Warren Commission presented its findings to President Johnson. Four days later the report was released to the public.

        The main argument behind the premise that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, without any outside guidance or help, rests in the pages of the Warren Report. This transcript, which was compiled by the specially appointed President's Commission On The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, was the product of intense research and questioning. In the end, after examining countless reports and theories, the group ruled that Oswald was the lone assassin of President Kennedy. They also concluded that Oswald did indeed act under his own fruition: Ruling out any possible conspiracy theories. Below is the Warren Report, in its entirety, sorted out by section. Many people disagree with the findings of the Warren Commission, and believe Oswald was involved in a variety of different conspiracies to kill President Kennedy. Yet these theories are little more than gross speculation. The most reliable truth lies behind the findings of the qualified government officials that was led by the esteemed Chief Justice of the United States, Earl Warren. Please peruse the following report to learn the government's confirmed analysis of Kennedy's assassination.

 

The Warren Report

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