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JFK Assassination

On Friday, November 22nd 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, was assassinated while he rode in an open limousine though the streets of Dallas. This event, which suddenly and severely altered the course of history, it has created more controversy than any other single event. Some haunting questions still remain. "Who did it?" "Why did they do it?" "How was it done?" "Was there a cover up" The official answers compiled by the Warren Commission have never satisfied the majority of the world's population. The Warren Commission consisting of "various outstanding citizens" was created to "ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination”... and the subsequent violent death of the man charged with the assassination Lee Harvey Oswald. The purpose of the Commission was to examine the evidence developed by the FBI and any additional evidence that may hereafter come to light. In less than one week they found that a 'lone nut' killed JKF. At no time did the Warren Commission seem to consider the basic legal rights of Oswald - innocence until proven guilty, the right to legal representation, or the right to cross-examine witnesses and evidence against him. There is no way that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Firstly the paraffin test of Oswald's hands and his right cheek conducted on November 23, 1963, has been positive for his hands but negative for his cheek. Generally, this is evidence in Oswald's favor, but the Commission asserted that the test "is completely unreliable in determining whether a person has recently fired a weapon or whether he has not." Nobody saw Oswald on the sixth floor window after 11:55 that day. Ninety seconds after the assassination, Roy Truly and Police officer M. L. Baker saw Oswald on the second floor. But he had just ninety seconds to hide the rifle in the opposite corner of the sixth floor, run downstairs four floors passing V...

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