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The Loss of a President

d came out negativefor his right cheek but positive for his hands. The results of this test show that it is highlyunlikely that Oswald had recently fired a gun. Also, no one had seen Oswald on the 6thfloor of the Texas School Book Depository after 11:55 A.M. At roughly 12:31, 90seconds after the shooting had taken place, Oswald was seen on the second floor of thebuilding. This means that in under 90 seconds, Oswald would have had to take the gun tothe opposite side of the 6th floor and hide it in a corner, and then run down four storiesworth of steps to the second floor of the building, past Victoria Adams who was in thestairwell at the time and did not see him. This is not only unlikely because of the shortamount of time at which he would have had to do this, but just 90 seconds after theshooting he was seen on the second floor of the building by Roy Truly and Police officerM. L. Baker who said that when they approached him he appeared to be “calm andcollected.”Another possible killer of President John F. Kennedy is the CIA. The CIA andJFK had been at war ever since the disaster at the Bay of Pigs Invasion. JFK did not trustor like the CIA, and had reportedly intended to dismantle it after the 1964 election. InVietnam, the CIA had constantly refused to follow specific instructions given to them byhim. They ignored President Kennedy’s orders that they not perform missions thatrequired greater firepower than a handgun. It also ignored Kennedy when he demandedthat they stop working with the Mafia and other organized crime groups. Though theiracts of self-independence were nothing new, one of the CIA’s greatest acts ofdisobedience was when they supported a group responsible for murdering the dictator ofSouth Vietnam, Ngo Diem, directly against the expressed wishes of Kennedy. In hearingof the news that the group had been supported by the CIA, Kennedy was outraged anddirectly blamed the CIA for Diem’...

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