I believe there was a huge cover-up of the assassination of JFK because after nearly 40 years the conspiracy performance that was used to undertake his murder is still not unearthed.  This lead the people of America to have a lost their faith in the government and the elements of them need to be exposed however cleverly orchestrated or sinisterly contrived they are.  I am going to prove that Kennedy was assassinated as a result of an organised conspiracy by the government and not a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.

President Kennedy’s last day began on November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office.  He was attending a Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Fortworth.  Accompanying him was Vice President Lynden Johnson and the Governor of Texas, John Connolly.  The purpose of the visit to Texas was to raise money for himself and the Democratic Party and also to enhance his standards for the election in 1964.

His second engagement of the day was a luncheon in Dallas, which was a six-minute flight away in Air Force One.  Fortworth seemed very dark and drizzly when the Kennedy’s left but when they arrived in Dallas it was bright, sunny and promised to be a spectacular day for the President, Vice President and Governor Connolly.  Kennedy’s popularity in Dallas was low and there were many posters with him on the front wanted for treason, this was encouraged even by the Dallas press who believed his policy’s were too liberal, especially civil rights and peace cons. 

They arrived at Love Field, Dallas at 11.40am and Mrs Connolly rode in the car with her husband, President Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy, who was apprehensive the night before about going to Dallas.  Governor Connolly was the one who organised the motorcade, which consisted of an open top car with a route that stretched a dangerous road around Dealy Plaza.  The streets were lined with thousands of people and the atmosphere seemed to be of a happy nature with much applause.  At this point we can recognise that the Secret Service (SS) should have done their job properly by scanning streets for possible sniper nests before Kennedy went there.

Two cars back from the front limousine was senator Ralph Yarbrough and Lynden and Lady Johnson.  The crowds increased as they approached the city, Main Street and then the river.  Enthusiastic crowds were all around below, but in the flats above were people just staring with no look on their faces; this could possibly had been the people who wanted him for treason.

The motorcade turned down Elm Street onto the Stamens Freeway, past Dealy Plaza at 12.29pm to go out to the trademark where the luncheon was being held; this is the point at which the first shot was fired at 12.30pm.  Eight people had reported to had seen puffs of smoke and birds flying away around the sixth floor of the school book depository.

Governor Connolly says he heard what he thought was a rifle shot, in response to this he turned and looked over his right shoulder, because that was where he describes the sound to have come from, and when he did not see anything because Kennedy had leant forward, he turned back again and then felt a blow to his back which he describes to have felt like a ‘fist’ hitting his back.  The force of such a blow bent him over and he noticed he was covered with blood.  The shirt was straight afterwards dry-cleaned to remove all traces of any blood.  He then remarks, “Oh my God, they’re going to kill us all”.  He says it with a calm resilient tone in his voice, as if he thinks whoever is shooting is going to take everyone out, including himself, which he may not have expected.

Connolly also heard another shot and says he saw blood and brain tissue all over the back of the limousine.  He states that at this point he knows the president had been fatally hit because Mrs Kennedy said, “My God, I’ve got his brains in my hand”.

The first shot according to the Warren Commission hit the president in the back, exited his throat, hit Governor Connolly in the back, exited his right wrist then embedded itself in his thigh.  There is no photo evidence to show Connolly’s shot wounds.

The ‘magic bullet’ made a total of seven wounds on Kennedy and Connolly according to the Warren Commission.  The bullet later appeared at the Parkland Memorial hospital in pristine condition laying next to Connolly on the stretcher.  The bullet could not have made seven wounds and exited in perfect condition, it is not possible.

The second shot missed Kennedy, but the third, according to Earl Warren, of the Warren Commission, hit Kennedy from behind, however his head was pushed backwards and to the left.  This means the shot must have come from the ‘grassy knoll’, which was the front right of Kennedy.  Because of the president’s back, he used to wear a back brace, but this day he wasn’t because he was on cortisone to limit the pain.  A shot from the grassy knoll would have proved the Warren Commissions ‘lone assassin’ theory to be wrong, this was why it wasn’t taken and used as evidence.

Many witnesses said they heard shots from the grassy knoll area including Bill and Gail Newman who were closest to the assassination.  However, after the first shot was fired Roy Truly and police officer M.L. Baker said they saw Lee Harvey Oswald on the second floor of the schoolbook depository building.  Nobody saw Oswald in the sixth floor window after 11.55am on November 22^nd, which was ninety seconds after the assassination. 

Oswald would have taken the stairs down but, he had only ninety seconds to hide the rifle in the opposite corner of the sixth floor, run downstairs four floors passing Victoria Adams who never saw him and reach the second floor where he was encountered to be ‘calm and collected’.  However, Oswald didn’t have his usual drink, which some say he could have meant he was nervous and suspicious to someone. Therefore, the ‘lone assassin’ theory of three shots all fired by Oswald has too many flaws to be considered as hard evidence. 

The SS were in the car in front of the President and looked behind to see that Kennedy had been shot, they reacted very slowly.  After driving through the underpass, the SS man hired to look after Mrs Kennedy called Hill, was hanging onto the back of the limousine and turned to the rest of the men in agony banging on the back of the car to alarm the others that the President had been shot.

After several minutes the President arrived at the Parkland Memorial Hospital immediately surrounded by the SS who formed a barrier around him.  Mrs Kennedy sat in the back of the car face down over Kennedy and looked up with blood running down her leg to say “They’ve murdered my husband” twice.  Again here the plural ‘they’ve’ is being used which proves suspicious that she’s talking about more than one person, which also means she didn’t know the government wanted a ‘lone assassin’ theory.  She is maybe referring to the government as a whole.

President Kennedy was taken to trauma room one where there was an attempt to resuscitate him.  Doctor Robert McClelland of Parkland Memorial Hospital described the whole scene to be very agitated and that the presidents head was almost destroyed and his face was in tack but swollen, therefore it was obvious that he had had a massive wound to his head.  Doctor Paul Peters and McClelland decided that the president was dead and Doctor Clark, the chairman of neural surgery had come in and inspected the site of the wound.  Peters described the wounds to have been 7cm opening at the right occipital parietal area, with a considerable proportion of the brain missing with the occipital cortex hanging down.  McClelland also says the right part of Kennedy’s head was badly shot.

The government went on TV to announce the president died of a gunshot wound to the brain, “A simple matter of a bullet right through the head”.  The wording of ‘simple’ seems of extreme bad taste, but uncannily describes the way in which he was actually shot and that they have got away with it.

On duty at the Parkland Memorial hospital was Aubrey Rike, an ambulance driver for the O’Neal funeral home.  He was approached by the SS to prepare the president to be moved from trauma room one and was described by Rike to have had his head wrapped in sheets.

Doctor Earl Rose, a forensic pathologist well trained in autopsy’s arrived in trauma room one and said it was a homicide in Dallas County and he will do the autopsy.  Meanwhile a casket was being prepared ready to take the body away.  The SS told Rose if he did not move, he would be run over by the huge bronze military casket as they left, “This is the president of the United States and we are taking him back to Washington”.   

Vice president Johnson was already on the way to the airport with Mrs Kennedy following with the casket with Kennedy inside which was then later manhandled up onto Air Force One.  Minutes later, Johnson was sworn in at 2.39pm as president at love field airport, this was barely three hours after they had arrived in Dallas when the plane left for Washington.

The casket was taken and accompanied by Jackie it was supposed to be flown directly from Dallas to Washington in Air Force One.  The casket arrived in Washington at St Andrews Air force Base and was taken by helicopter to the Naval Medical Section to be operated on by Commanders Hume’s and Boswell assisted by Medical Technician Paul O’Connor.

The casket was brought in as described by O’Connor and it appeared to be a cheap shipping type of casket, not ornamental or expensive.  The body arrived in a black zipper bag and was naked with a white sheet wrapped around the head, this proves the body was tampered with whilst on Air Force One by the SS.  The official autopsy report reveals the back of the head in tack with a neat entrance and small bullet hole whereas the right temporal area was completely open when it was at Dallas and Washington.

In 1964 the Warren Commission dealt with the evidence by not incorporating it into the report because they thought they would have to publish it, so it wasn’t used.   In 1977 the House Assassinations Committee had the photographs but didn’t allow the Dallas Doctors to view them, this was because they could have identified them as being fake and the only people who could have faked the photographs would have been the government, this would also have opened the case as a conspiracy which is exactly what they didn’t want.

Manipulation of the medical evidence can be seen when the brain was missing in the Naval Medical Centre.  McClelland described 20-25% of the brain to have been missing.  O’Connor was astounded when he removed the sheets and saw there was no brains to remove.  A normal autopsy should have entailed the brain to be sectioned and the bullet traced with all bullet fragments accounted for.  This means therefore there was no visualisation of its interior, perfect for the government to cover-up.

Over fifty known eyewitnesses in Dealy Plaza believed there was a gunman on the grassy knoll, however the police soon focused their attention on the southeast corner of the sixth floor schoolbook depository building where they were inside within ninety seconds. They found three spent cartridges lying closely together next to the wall adjacent to a half opened window overlooking the motorcade route. 

Officer Luke Mooney discovered the first piece of hard evidence and the book with a page open on a picture of Christ.  A rifle was found and described to have been in the northwest corner of the building, which you could not see from the stairwell.  Eugene Boone identified the photos for the Warren Commission.  There were two rows of books, the outside row was two cases high this was were he found the rifle in the crevice.  The rifle was an Italian Mannlicher-Carcano, World War Two Vintage very worn and rusty with a miss-aligned scope which is not an automatic weapon and requires a bolt to be drawn by hand in order to feed single live rounds to its breech. 

Tests were conducted and experts found that the rifle was inaccurate and they described it as being “crudely made, poorly designed and dangerous”.  They also found that the ammunition for the rifle was frequently of a poor quality with in one batch 17 out of 20 bullets were defective and failed to fire. 

There was also evidence suggesting the presence of a second gunman on the sixth floor of the depository building, but this remains inconclusive.  Several eyewitnesses reported seeing two men with guns on the sixth floor.  The men were described as wearing light coloured clothing.  Oswald wore a dark coloured shirt to work that day.  Certainly with two gunmen firing from the depository building the chances of hitting the target would have been greatly improved.

The three-day period of intense efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Dallas Police authorities to find Lee Harvey Oswald’s prints on the rifle was only found after he was dead.   It is highly possible that the prints were put there by the government after Oswald’s death.  Oswald’s rifle was proven to be defective and cheap with no explainable way of firing three shots in under seven seconds, no expert marksman has ever managed to do it within this amount of time.

The Warren Commission had first said that two bullets had hit Kennedy, one in the back and one in the head hitting Governor Connolly aswell, (the magic bullet).  This theory was soon proved wrong from a bystander who was standing ran under the triple bypass, James Tayne who felt a bullet skim his face.  They found the bullet in the curb of the road, this proved there was a missed shot and threw off the Warren Report.  However, after many photos were taken and the curb was replaced and the bullet was said to have been not what ‘they’ thought.  The evidence was obviously destroyed.

Forty-five minutes after the assassination a police patrolman, J.D Tippit was shot dead at 1.16pm by an automatic weapon whilst in the Oak Cliff Area of Dallas, which is three miles from downtown.  After this point the police squad cars converged on an alarm raised about a man at the Texas theatre one mile from the scene of the shooting at 1.40pm. 

They discovered Oswald had slipped inside the theatre without paying.  The police officer Paul Bentley was first on the scene and tried to catch Oswald. Oswald was very calm when arrested which was very unusual for the crime he had committed, he was armed but with a revolver that hadn’t been shot which wasn’t the gun used to kill Tippet.

Oswald, an enigmatic ex marine who had briefly defected to Russia and was working at the schoolbook depository on the day of the assassination says he was on the second floor in the lunchroom when the shots were fired.  He was then taken into custody and interrogated by firstly Gus Rose. 

Rose searched Oswald for identification when he refused to tell him and found in his pocket a wallet with two forms of identification, one for Lee Harvey Oswald and one for Alex Highdale.  Oswald would not explain which identity he was, just that Rose should figure it out for himself.

At this point Oswald still did not know what he was being held for and why, he spoke to the TV cameras about how nobody has told him what he’s in for.  From the moment of his arrest, Oswald was presumed guilty and portrayed to the world as a lone ‘nut’ assassin, but he vehemently protested his innocence at every opportunity, “Nobody has told me anything”.  Oswald is interrogated for thirty-six hours after the TV cameras tell him he has been accused of killing the president; Oswald was physically shaken on video when told the news.  He describes himself as just a ‘patsy’.

After the interrogation Oswald was to be transferred to the County Jail from the City Jail.  The police said they would have basic security but they did not believe the people would take him away from them. 

The following Sunday November 24^th, Oswald was escorted through the basement of the police headquarters by detectives Jim Levell and Earl C Grays.  The detectives said they spotted Jack Ruby in the corner of their eyes with a pistol in his hand.  Ruby shot Oswald in front of a number of TV cameras with a single bullet and he died at 1.07pm in the operating room from the gunshot wound. 

After the death of Oswald, the government realised that he wasn’t going to be tried according to Senate Investigator Harold Weisberg, in court so a memorandum was written by Nicolas Casabas, the acting attorney general and deputy attorney general, and was sent to Bill Moyer’s, (a channel to Lynden Johnson) saying “Oswald was a lone assassin and the evidence was such that he would be convicted if he went to trial”.

Jesse Curry, Dallas police chief was forced to hand over all the evidence concerning Oswald which was turned over to J. Edgar Hoover head of the FBI who believed from the beginning that Oswald was a lone ‘nut’ assassin, this seemed to be the belief of anyone official at the time.

By Monday evening both Oswald and Kennedy had been buried and all investigations focused on the lone gunman theory.  An inquest was started and within two weeks the FBI produced a detailed report declaring the guilt of Oswald.  The SS soon backed up the report.

The Warren Commission was set up by Johnson seven days after the assassination in Washington with Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court since 1953 along with; Hale Boggs, U.S. representative, John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator (Republican of Kentucky), Allen W. Dulles, Director of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Gerald R. Ford, U.S. representative (Republican Michigan), John J. McCloy, attorney and advisor to President Kennedy and Richard B. Russell, U.S. Senator (Democrat Georgia).  The Warren Report concluded that Oswald acting alone killed Kennedy. 

By March 1964 sentence was passed before Ruby and he was found guilty of murder with malice and charged with death.  Ruby appealed against his sentence and begged eight times to be taken to Washington because he did not feel he was safe in Dallas, however, they refused to take him.  Ruby was put in prison in Dallas but suddenly contracted cancer before his death sentence.  Ruby obviously felt nervous about the connections he had and whether they thought he would use their names to buy him out of prison.

Jack Ruby from Chicago was a small town hoodlum and a runner for Al Capone in the 1930’s.  He based his life around gambling, narcotics and prostitution.  He ran a club called the Carousel in Dallas, which was one in a long line of unsuccessful nightclubs where Ruby often played host to members of the Dallas police force.  This was also where most of the SS were the night before the assassination, which is a big coincidence.

Ruby liked to keep fit but had a lot of trouble behind closed doors including phone calls from well-connected mob figures just before the assassination.  He found out in April of Kennedy’s visit to Dallas.  Beverly Oliver says two weeks prior to the assassination a dancer called Jhada at Ruby’s club introduced Oswald and Ruby together to her which proves they knew each other before the assassination and so close to the time of it.  Jhada died unexplainably after telling the police about seeing the two together.

Overall, I believe the assassination of Kennedy was mainly due to his openness to peace and civil rights and this highlighted too many big issues for America at one time, which caused the decision to assassinate him by the CIA. The Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) had enough evidence supported by eyewitness’s reports to conclude that Kennedy was a victim of a conspiracy. 

The most popular theory of which I agree is that the government agencies were involved and that it was planned by either high officials in the White House and by the Secret Service, FBI and CIA.  Paid killers executed him, and afterwards the agencies ensured that the murderers remained uncovered.  The CIA blamed Kennedy for not throwing the full weight of his air force behind the Bay of Pigs affair and in addition they were bitterly disappointed that he had come to an agreement with the Soviets over Cuba.  Kennedy had also stopped listening to the CIA after the Bay of Pigs affair and they resented being cold-shouldered by the president.  The cover-ups of the government are so frequent and obvious that you cannot overlook the indefinite fact that the government killed Kennedy.