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60 years ago, the world learned with horror that charismatic, young president of America was brutally murdered.

The greater tragedy was that it was the U.S. government that carried out this heinous act.

As years went by, hundreds of books were written about it. With the hard work of countless investigators, those who refused to be swayed away by the Warren Commission Report, realized that our own government was deeply involved in this despicable murder that shocked the world.

Right after the assassination, vice-president Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the president. He appointed the Warren Commission with chief justice Earl Warren in charge. Warren Commission later came out with an 889-page report declaring that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman who killed Kennedy.

Image: Source: TheFreeThoughtProject.com

Unfortunately, this was the biggest cover up of a crime of this magnitude. Many experts as well as ordinary witnesses who were present at the scene as well as at the postmortem of the dead president realized that Warren Commission had lied to the public. All the evidence pointed to more than one gunman, which meant a conspiracy.

Here are some of the facts which proved that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the gunman and there were more than one gunmen who carried out this brutal murder:

• At 10:30 a.m. on November 22, 1963, Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker held a meeting in preparation for the president’s visit to Dallas that day. Decker had called together all his deputies, about one hundred of them. That included the plainclothes men and detectives  who were especially important to the president’s safety—as Texas was a dangerous place for this president at that time—as he passed through the streets of Dallas. Decker gave his assembled officers an unusual order. He said they “were to take no part whatsoever in the security of the presidential motorcade.” This was just two hours before the president’s assassination at the Dealy Plaza. Decker had withdrawn the Dallas County component of President Kennedy’s security at the motorcade’s most vulnerable location only a few feet away. The hairpin turn from Houston to Elm Street would slow the limousine to a crawl, making the president almost stationary target for the crossfire from many possible angles. It was almost a sniper’s gallery presenting a tremendous challenge for security police. The withdrawal of Kennedy’s security made Dealy Plaza the ideal ambush site, set up with the help of those responsible for the president’s protection.

Like Sheriff Bill Decker, Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry gave a critical order that would also keep his officers away from Dealy Plaza during the president’s perilous passage through it. Curry told his officers “To end supervision of Friday’s crowd at Houston Street and Main, a block short of the ambush, on the ground that traffic would begin to thin out there. Later, in his book, JFK Assassination File, Chief Curry pointed out that he was simply following the orders of the Secret Service. In short, Curry and Decker were carrying out orders from the Secret Service. 

The same way, motorcycle officers were ordered not to ride on the side of the presidential motorcade. Other officers who were supposed to ride standing on the side of the limousine holding the handrails-which could have blocked the shooters’ view of the president—were ordered not to ride on the side of the limousine. Thus, the president was laid bare for the shooters to ambush from the Grassy Knoll.

• There were six seconds to shoot the president with a telescopic rifle from the 6^th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD). With one exception, no expert gunmen could shoot four bullets within six seconds with the kind of rifle Lee Oswald had. And Oswald was not a good marksman.
• As author James Douglass rights in his excellent book, JFK: The Unspeakable, According to The Warren Report’s record of Oswald’s interrogation, when he was asked “what part of the building he was in at the time the president was shot,” “he said that he was having his lunch about that time on the second floor.” Oswald added that “he went to the second floor where the Coca Cola machine was located and obtained a bottle of Coca Cola for his lunch.” 

A key witness, whose testimony was covered up by the FBI, placed Oswald in fact in the second-floor lunchroom (where the Coca Cola machine was located) at 12:15 p.m. 

Carolyn Arnold was the secretary to the Depository vice president. She knew Oswald because he was in the habit of stopping by her desk on the second floor, asking her for a change in nickels and dimes. In an interview with Dallas reporter Earl Golz, Arnold said “she saw Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom as she was on her way out of the depository to watch the presidential motorcade Nov. 22, 1963.”

Arnold author Anthony Summers the time of her seeing Oswald was “about 12:15. It may have been slightly later.” She told Earl Golz she actually left the building at 12:15 p.m., few minutes before the president was shot. She went inside again as she had a craving for a glass of water as she was pregnant. As she went into the lunchroom, to quench her thirst, she saw Oswald having his lunch. In retrospect, it was her most memorable experience in an unforgettable way day. 

“I do not recall that he (Oswald) was doing anything,” she said. I just recall that he was sitting there in one of the booth seats on the right-hand side of the room as you go in. He was alone as usual and appeared to be having lunch. I did not speak to him but I recognized him clearly.”

The motorcade was running late. The president was scheduled to pass the Depository at 12:25 p.m., ten minutes after Carolyn Arnold saw Oswald sitting in the booth seat on the second-floor lunchroom. If an assassin planned to shoot President Kennedy from sixth-floor window at 12:25, would he have been sitting in the second-floor lunchroom at 12:15?

Image: Picture of President Kennedy in the limousine in Dallas, Texas, on Main Street, minutes before the assassination. Also in the presidential limousine are Jackie Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nellie. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Kennedy was shot at 12:30 PM., supposedly from the 6th floor south-east window of TSBD.

There are many other discrepancies in the Warren Report. The report dismissed many witnesses whose testimony proved that there were more than one shooter and Oswald was not the shooter.

• Neck Wound: Kennedy’s neck had an original bullet entrance wound. But by the time final postmortem was done, his neck wound was altered to make it look like an exit wound as if this bullet came from the back, supposedly from TSBD. The entrance wound in the neck means he was also shot from the front, which means there were more than one shooter. This means it was a conspiracy. So, the conspirators had to hide this fact. 
• Grassy Knoll: As the presidential limousine made a left turn on the elm street, it passed by the grassy knoll which was on its right side. Many witnesses saw two men hiding behind the wooden fence at the grassy knoll. Other witnesses saw  and heard shots coming from the grassy knoll. The most fatal shot to the president’s head (from right-side) came from the grassy knoll according to several witnesses. This was the shot which blew President Kennedy’s head and a big chunk of his brain flew in the back of his motorcade. Here the president was shot from front right side. Another proof of the conspiracy of more than one shooter.
• Car Speed: As the presidential limousine made a right turn on the Elm Street, it slowed down considerably! This was intentional as that made the assassins’ work easier to shoot at the president. 
• Texas School Book Depository: Two Men Seen: Some witnesses saw two men at the south-east corner sixth floor window with rifles at the time of the shooting. This is where Oswald was supposed to have shot the president with three shots according to the Warren Report.
• Officer J. D. Tippit Killing: As per the Warren Report, Oswald also shot and killed officer J.D. Tippit and then went to the theatre. In reality, several witnesses who lived and worked across the scene of the shooting, saw a man shooting Tippit and running away with a pistol who absolutely did not look like Oswald. Even the revolver bullet from Tippit’s body were different from Oswald’s revolver. And the witnesses who testified and spoke about this were later killed.
• Postmortem: Against the law, the body of the dead president was forcefully taken away from Parkland Hospital where it was taken after he was shot dead. It was flown to Bethesda Naval Maryland Hospital at Bethesda, Maryland. The postmortem of the president’s body was privately done there. His wounds were altered to make it look like he was only shot from the rear to confirm to pre-decided narrative that he was shot from the rear from the 6^th floor window of TSBD by Oswald.  

Basically, Oswald was just a patsy. Even Oswald himself said that when he was arrested. Oswald was made a scapegoat of this conspiracy to kill this president and massive cover-up of this heinous crime followed.

Oswald and CIA connection: Yes, Oswald did have a CIA connection. But his CIA connection did his undoing. The CIA found Oswald to be an ideal candidate to put the entire blame of this horrible crime on him. He was very cleverly set up as a patsy, a scapegoat. He was even given a job at the Texas School Book Depository a month before only. CIA used Mafia to try to assassinate Fidel Castro of Cuba. So, they had close connection in those years. Jack Ruby was a night club owner deeply connected with the Mafia He also was friends with Oswald. 

Lyndon Johnson’s Involvement: Years later, Johnson’s mistress, reportedly said that the night before the assassination, Johnson told her that “The Kennedys will never embarrass me”. After the assassination, years later, she told that “one night when they were together, she asked Johnson if he was involved in the Kennedy assassination. She said, “Johnson got very upset with her.” After the assassination, Johnson played a major role in the cover-up of the conspiracy. After the reelection of Kennedy in 1964, Johnson knew that he would be dropped as the vice-President. He was soon going to be exposed for a huge corruption scandal. So, once he assumed the presidency, he was able to suppress all these things.

Oil Billionaires: It had become known that Kennedy was going to pass laws by which oil billionaires would have to pay substantial amount of taxes from their income. The night before the assassination, there took place a big party in Dallas supposedly attended by Lyndon Johnson, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and oil billionaires of Texas at oil billionaire’s mansion. Once again, a week after the assassination, another big party was held at an oil billionaire’s mansion where champagne was served and the attendees laughed and enjoyed themselves.

At least 33 of many JFK assassination related witnesses died unnaturally within three years of the assassination. As Richard Blazer and David Wayne write in their book, “Hit List”, all the witnesses—who spoke out or were to testify to Warren Commission or to Jim Garrison the New Orlean’s Attorney Journal,  and whose testimony will prove the existence of conspiracy–, related to the Kennedy assassination and the conspiracy were mysteriously murdered or were killed in an accident. The authors point out that according to an actuary hired by London Sunday Times, odds of 18 material witnesses dying within three years of the assassination were one-hundred-thousand-trillion-to-one! In reality, many more witnesses who had the critical information regarding the conspiracy mysteriously died or were killed.

Who Killed Kennedy and Why?

Several criminal entities decided to eliminate this president who they hated because of his policies. 

• Kennedy wanted to withdraw from Vietnam because he thought it was their war and didn’t want U.S. troops getting killed there. He had decided to pull out 1000 members of the U.S. military by the end of 1963, and all of them by the end of 1965. Kennedy’s decision to withdraw from Vietnam was part of a larger strategy for peace that he and Nikita Khrushchev had mutually committed to, which in Kennedy’s case would result in his death. Thomas Merton had seen it coming if Kennedy pursued peace. JFK agreed. He felt that his own demise was increasingly likely if he continued to buck his military advisers. Still, he proceeded to do exactly that. After vetoing the introduction of U.S. troops at the Bay of Pigs, he resisted the Joint Chief’s even more intense pressures to bomb and invade Cuba in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Then just ignored his military and CIA advisers by moving sharply towards peace in his American University address, his partial Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Premier, and his quest for a dialogue with Fidel Castro. His October 1963 decision to withdraw from Vietnam once again broke the Cold War Rule of his National Security State. As Merton had predicted, Kennedy was going deeper in his pursuit of peace—and to its fatal consequences. 
• Thus, in his quest for peace, he was infuriating the Joint Chief, the Pentagon, and the CIA. JFK was appalled  by the nuclear war. During one NSC meeting in the White House on July 20, 1961, General Hickey, chairman of the “Net Evaluation Subcommittee” of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a plan for a nuclear surprise attack on the Soviet Union. Other presenters of this plan were General Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA director Allen Dulles, Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s military aide, etc. Kennedy walked out of the meeting disgusted. Not only he was appalled by a general nuclear war, but his walkout was also in response to a more specific evil in his own ranks; U.S. military leaders were enlisting his support for a 
   plan to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Later in disgust, he told Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State, “And we call ourselves the human race!”
• By refusing to give air-cover to the Cuban exiles who had invaded Cuba during the Bay of Pigs Crisis, he had made right wing Cuban exiles in Floria very angry.
• As veteran journalist Seymour Hersh contended in his book, “The Dark Side of Camelot”, that money, muscle and influence of organized crime helped John Kennedy win the closely contested 1960 election. Further he writes that the Mafia was brought into the Kennedy presidential campaign—and helped the Democrats carry the key state of Illinois—mainly at the instigation of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., founder of the family political dynasty. 

One time Kennedy pal Frank Sinatra also played a part in enlisting the aid of organized crime chieftain Sam Giancana in the struggle for the White House against Republican Richard Nixon, Tina Sinatra, Sinatra’s daughter told Hersh.

But after the election, Kennedy’s younger brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy went after the Mafias and their crimes. This made the Mafia bosses very angry; They felt cheated. So, they were deeply involved in Kennedy’s assassination. 

• J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI chief, didn’t have good relations with Kennedy. After the 1964 election, Kennedy was going to replace Hoover and he knew that. So, Hoover too was involved in the JFK assassination.
• The CIA director, Allen Dulles hated Kennedy whom he considered a pinko and an interloper. Kennedy had fired him from his post after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Hence, Allen Dulles was another major player in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy.
• Kennedy knew that the CIA was committing crimes around the world. So, once he had said, “I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.” This clearly shows that Kennedy hated the CIA and its nefarious activities. Similarly, CIA’s high officials hated Kennedy and his peace seeking policies.
• Right wing Cuban exiles who were involved in the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs were captured and humiliated by Castro. As Kennedy refused to get involved by not giving them air-cover, they hated Kennedy. 
• Dallas Police were also involved in the conspiracy. Dallas mayor Earl Cabell who had been elected mayor of Dallas in May 1961, oversaw arrangements for Kennedy’s trip and motorcade, which took him through Dealy Plaza, a rout that violated almost all standard rules for the presidential safety—and where normal safeguards, such as sealing windows and placing sharpshooters were ignored. Mayor Cabell was a CIA asset. It is to be noted that Earl Cabell’s brother Charles left the CIA on January 31, 1962, after Kennedy forced him to resign.

JFK assassination was the result of a mind-boggling conspiracy hatched by a combination of people high in various institution of the country such as the CIA, FBI, Dallas Police Department, the Secret Service, oil billionaires and the Mafia. All these forces were stacked against a peace-loving young president whose only crime was he wanted to end the cold war with the Soviet Union, be friends with Cuba and thus protect the world from nuclear holocaust. But the “powers that be” didn’t like it. So, they got together, conspired, and brutally assassinated the president.

If our government can kill our own president, who can they not kill? Which leader or individual in our country or around the world is safe?

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Chaitanya Davé is an engineer and a businessman. He has authored three books: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: A Shocking Record of US Crimes since 1776-2007, COLLAPSE: Civilization on the Brink-2010, CAPITALISM’S MARCH OF DESTRUCTION: Replacing it with People and Nature-Friendly Economy. Author of many articles on politics, history, and the environment. Founder/President of a non-profit charity foundation helping the poor villagers of India, Nepal, Haiti, USA-homeless and other poor countries. He can be contacted at [email protected]. 

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