Kennedy+Assassiantion

=Article= On Friday November 22, 1963 at 12:30 pm President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza,Dallas,Texas. He was killed by two shots, one hitting his upper back damaging his right lung, spinal vertebrae along with his neck and throat, the second shot was to the rear of President Kennedy’s head. The limousine carrying Kennedy’s body, Jackie Kennedy and Texasgovernor and his wife John and Nelly Connally rushed off to ParklandHospital. At 1:00 pm President Kennedy was declared dead. At 1:50pm Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged for the murder of President Kennedy and police officer J.D. Tippit. On November 25, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was buried in Arlington National Cemetery accompanied by thousands mourning over the death of the President.


 * Table of Contents:**
 * 1) **Assassination**
 * 2) **Lee Harvey Oswald**
 * 3) **Aftermath of assassination**

Friday November 22, 1963 has gone down in history as one of the darkest moments in U.S history. The 35th President of the United States had been assassinated, which many believe though has not been proved was an act of conspiracy. Thursday November 21, 1963 at 10:05 am the aircraft (AF1) carrying Kennedy and his wife left Andrews. Thirty minutes later Lee Oswald looks over the motorcade map in his newspaper. After the Kennedys make a few stops in California, John and Jacklyn land in Houston, Texas at 4:37 pm. Oswald travels to Irving at 5:25 pm and at 8:55 pm Oswald checks his carbine (C2766). By 8:58 pm JFK and his wife arrive at The Houston Coliseum. The AF1 arrived in Fort Worth at 11:07 pm and reaches the Hotel Texas by 11:50pm. Oswald leaves his home with his C2766 at 7:23 am. By 11:55 am the motorcade carrying the Kennedy's and Connally's departs from Love Field. At 12:29 the motorcade turns onto to Elm Street, a minute later the President is shot. Oswald leaves heading for the city bus which he takes for seven blocks, afterwards he enters a cab at 12:47. By 1:00pm Kennedy was officially pronounced dead and many Americans were aware of the shooting. At 1:15 Oswald and officer Tippet talked shortly before Oswald shot and killed J.D. Tippet. By 1:50pm Oswald was found in a Texas movie theatre and brought to jail. Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president at 2:38pm just before departing from Love Field. Johnson arrived back to the White house at 5:26 pm. At 1:30am Saturday morning, Lee Oswald was charged with the murder of JFK. That day was mostly spent arranging and properly securing the upcoming funeral. The next day November 24, at 11:21pm Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby which was televised live by NBC. LHO was pronounced dead by 1:07pm. John Kennedy's funeral took place the following day, November 25, 1963. After a beautiful service watched by millions of people worldwide, Kennedy was buried in Arlington cemetery. []
 * Chronology of events:**

By 1:50 pm November 22, 1963 Oswald was no longer known as the U.S. Marine gone astray but rather recognized nationwide as a murderer, the one who assassinated the president and killed police officer J.D. Tippit. In 1952 Lee and his mother moved to New York. He was an intelligent boy, but his behavior was erratic. He was sent to a detention center where he received psychiatric treatment. At age sixteen he joined the U.S marines, and after finishing basic training he was sent to Atsugi airbase in Japan. His bad behaviors kept up, Oswald was caught having possession of an unregistered weapon, along with using provoking words in a quarrel with a sergeant. In 1959 he left the marines to travel parts of the world, he went to Finlandand later to Moscow where he applied to become a citizen of the Soviet Union. After becoming a legal citizen of the Soviet Union, he was sent to Minsk in January of 1960 where he worked as an assembler at a radio/ television agency. There, he met nineteen year old pharmacy worker Marina [|Prusakova] .Marina and Lee married in April of 1960. The couple and their baby daughter moved back to theUnited States in June, 1962. It was reported by Oswald's wife in 1963 that Lee attempted to assassinate General Edward Walker. He continued his relationship with Cuban Embassy and American Communist party. On November 22, 1963 Oswald shot toward the limousine carrying Kennedy as the motorcade turned onto Elm Street ultimately killing President Kennedy. Police officer J.D Tippit approached Oswald along East 10th street, where they held a brief conversation until Oswald pulled out a hand gun and shot Officer Tippit multiple times leading to his death. Owald was arrested and interrogated by the Dallas police for thirteen hours. Even with evidence proving Oswald was guilty he still claimed he was innocent. During the process of moving Oswald to the county jail, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a night club owner on November 24th, 1963. []
 * Background of Lee Harvey Oswald:**

After Kennedy was pronounced dead, shock struck the country. Many people mourned over his death in disbelief however, the country left no time to breathe and immediately went to work to secure the nation and rebuild what was just destroyed. Directly following the shooting on Elm Street, Kennedy was rushed off to Parkland Hospital where he was treated by Doctor George Burkley and his staff from the trauma unit. Kennedy was later declared dead. Chaos swarmed the country but no time was wasted. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President on board an aircraft just before departing from Love Field. One of the first tasks started by Johnson was the organization of the Warren Commission. The Warren Commission was created to investigate the assassination of Kennedy.After the investigation, they concluded that Oswald was acting alone. Many people disagreed andcontinued to work on the investigation. Because the nation was still mourning over the president’s death, Johnson promised to keep many of Kennedy’s programs and political appointees. [] ** Analysis **
 * Aftermath of Kennedy assassination:**

In many ways, the assassination of President Kennedy impacted subsequent events during the 1960’s. The assassination caused a re-evaluation of the complacency occurring in the 1960’s. Also, after Kennedy’s death, our country than was left with many of Kennedy’s unfilled projects and ideas. Before the assassination, conspiracy acts were happening, which lead up to the conspiracy act which many believe was the reason why Kennedy was killed. All of these things linked to Kennedy’s assassination in some way influenced the 1960’s.

Violence and the idea of obeying authority whether it be the church, school or political leaders was questioned and tested during the 1960’s subsequent to the assassination. Many people from the younger generation started to question authority and rebelled against it. Those living in the 1960's lost their sense of hierarchy of family, church and community. They replaced it with a "live your life" type of attitude which was carefree and self centered. Several violent acts including the Kennedy assassination took place during the 60's as a result from the new "care free attitude", for example, the Black Panthers, an African American group created to increase anti-race and self-defense, but they used violence to do so. A good portion of the groups, gangs and riots used violence to get across their point and to make sure their voices are heard. Just as the Black Panthers and many other gangs like the Vice Lords used violence, so did Lee Harvey Oswald who killed the President to make a statement of what his beliefs were.

In many ways, the death of President Kennedy had an impact on the country itself. Kennedy had started or had ideas for many projects during the 60's, however, his death made impossible for him to complete or carry out all of his ideas. In 1963 Kennedy realized Vietnam was a mistake, and he had plans of withdrawing troops from Vietnam. Kennedy signed NSAM 263 on October 11th 1963, which withdrew 1,000 troops and about 16,000 of the stationed American in Vietnam. Also, there were documents found earlier in 1963 which showed that Kennedy was planning on a complete withdraw from Vietnam. However, Kennedy was killed that following November, unable to complete his plans of withdrawing all troops from Vietnam. When Lyndon B. Johnson took over as President of the United States he did the exact opposite of what Kennedy had planned. Instead of removing troops from Vietnam Johnson escalated the war by adding about 200,000 additional troops. By Johnson not withdrawing troops from Vietnam he greatly contributed to the 58,168 Americans that died while at war.

Vietnam was not the only problem that faced the United States after Kennedy's death. Kennedy deeply believed in lowering and cutting taxes as he states " A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. Every taxpayer and his family will have more money left over after taxes for a new car, a new home, new conveniences, education and investment". Since Kennedy strongly believed in cutting taxes he initiated a house bill HR-8368, which was the largest tax cut in American history. Once Johnson became president he started the Great Society which expanded social security, Medicare, Medicaid and more unrest in the country. However, because Kennedy had cut taxes so low and Johnson had escalated the war in Vietnam so high, there was not enough tax dollars to support Great Society. This caused the rapid inflation during the 1960's.

In conclusion, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was in many ways a direct reflection on what was occurring during the 1960's. Violence, questioning of authority and a re-evaluation of values all were popular trends of the 1960's. Not only did the 1960's cause the death of Kennedy, the presidents death also impacted the country. Unfulfilled tasks and projects left after his death resulted in an escalation of the Vietnam was along with inflation during the 1970's. =Work Cited = "John F. Kennedy Assassination." //Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia//. Web. 19 May 2011. . "John F. Kennedy : Biography." //Spartacus Educational - Home Page//. Web. 19 May 2011. . Manchester, Williams. __Death of a President.__ New York, New York: Jonathan Cape, 1967. Knight, Peter. __The Kennedy Assassination.__ United Kingdom: Edinburgh University, 2007. Greenberg, David. "JFK, the Demand-side [|Tax] Cutter. - By David Greenberg." //Slate Magazine//. Web. 05 June 2011. . "Bobby Kennedy's War on Castro - CIA Plot to Kill Fidel Castro | Washington Monthly | Find Articles at BNET." //Find Articles at BNET | News Articles, Magazine Back Issues & Reference Articles on All Topics//. Web. 05 June 2011. .