What was the route of JFK's motorcade on the day of his assassination?
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You'll find it discussed in most conspiracy books, and most especially in Jim Garrison's book, On the Trail of the Assassins (right). Supposedly, John Kennedy's motorcade through Dallas, which was to go directly down Main Street and onto the Stemmons Freeway, was changed at the last minute to turn of Houston Street, and then Elm Street. \nWhy is this supposed to be sinister? Because the route down Elm Street takes the limo near the Grassy Knoll, where a shooter was supposedly stationed. It also takes the motorcade near other buildings (such as the Dal-Tex) were shooters could be hidden, supposedly creating a "triangulation of crossfire." \n\nBelow is a drawing of the "originally planned" parade route, and the "revised" parade route -- taken from On the Trail of the Assassins is shown below.\n\n\n\n\n\nGarrison's Account of His "Discovery"\nJim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who prosecuted Clay Shaw for conspiring to murder Kennedy, claimed to have discovered the "changed route." He says that, during his investigation of the assassination in 1967: \nThe temporary respite from the investigation did not last long. Frank Klein could not stay away from it, and neither could I. One morning I was in my office reading and rereading a newspaper. I did not hear Frank enter. \n"I have never seen you so preoccupied," said Frank. \n\n"It's not just any paper, son," I said. "This is the front page of the Dallas Morning News for November 22, 1963." \n\n"Well, what's got you so hypnotized?" \n\nI gestured to the large diagram on the paper's front page, indicating the route of the presidential parade. "Have I ever shown you this before?" I asked. \n\nHe shook his head.\n\nI turned the paper around facing his way so that he could read the diagram of the motorcade. It covered almost five-sixth of the front page.\n\n"Frank," I said, "I want you to follow the parade route with me. Let's pick it up right here as it comes down Main approaching Dealey Plaza. Are you with me?"\n\n"Yes," he said, his finger following the thick line indicating the motorcade. "And here is where it reaches Dealey Plaza . . . " He stopped.\n\n"What's the matter?" I asked.\n\n"This diagram indicates that the President's parade was supposed to continue on Main Street through the center of Dealey Plaza -- without even leaving Main." He stared at it in disbelief.\n\n"So what's wrong with that?" I asked.\n\nHis finger was moving off of Main, inches downward to Elm until he found the Depository area where the President had been shot. "If that was the presidential parade route up there on Main . . . "\n\nI finished the question for him. "How did he get way down here on Elm?"\n\nFrank looked up at me with a slight frown, then looked back at the diagram. He moved his finger back along Main Street to where it reached Houston. "The motorcade turned right on Houston and went down onto Elm," he said. . . . "Here on Main Street, continuing through the open meadow," he said, "they couldn't have hit him. Are you telling me that at the last moment they just moved the President of the United States off of his scheduled route to here where the Depository is?" He pushed back his chair and stood up. "Hell, I haven't read a damned word about that anywhere. How can they keep something like that a secret for three years?"\n\n[...]\n\nFrank grabbed the front page of the Dallas Morning News and pointed to the diagram. "Hell," he said, "was the Warren Commission blind? Didn't they see this?"\n\n"Oh," I said. "Would you like to see the front page that was introduced to the Warren Commission?"\n\nI pulled open my middle desk drawer and took out a copy of the Dallas Mor
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November 22, 1963  Lee Harvey Oswald and no
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Nope, there were three shots and two hits.  First shot misses, not surprising since Oswald is nervous and on edge.  After the first shot the recoil strikes his shoulder, he hears the rifle crack and his Marine Corp training takes over.  The second shot hits President Kennedy high in the back and passes through into Governor Connally, forget that nonsense about a "magic" bullet since the two men line up perfectly, in a Lincoln limo and not a Cadillac as is usually used in the conspiracy books, and Oswlad was using full metal jacket ammo so the bullet would have maximum penetration and wouldn't be inclined to deform.  The third shot, which is actually the easiest shot since the limo was traveling slightly down hill and almost directly away from Oswald, no leading the target, strikes President Kennedy in the head.  The motion of his head snapping back is proof that the round came from behind although those who know nothing of wound pathology or physics seem to think otherwise.  Three shots, two hits.  \n\nThe claim that four shots were recorded from an open police motorcycle microphone was popular for a time and even fooled a house committee.  Only later did someone notice that there are no sirens to be heard on the recoding.  Moments after the shooting every police siren was sounding as the motocade raced to the hospital.  Where ever that police motorcycle with the open microphone was that day, probably the site of the speach that President Kennedy was going to give, it wasn't in Dealy Plaza.  \n\nI'm afarid it's not a very popular or exciting answer but then again, the truth is seldom considered to be either.
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No one has said that the bullet was not fired by Oswald's rifle. That's pretty clear. The question is, did that bullet hit JFK AND Governor Conolly, or just Governor Conolly, and no ballistics tests are going prove or disprove that. Conspiracy theorists believe that JFK was actually killed by another bullet, fired by a man on a grassy knoll, but that the government covered it up by saying that the bullet that hit Conolly had killed JFK. That the bullet does not exist of course fuels this conspiracy theory all the more, despite the fact that if the theory is wrong, it shouldn't have existed in the first place.
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The Kennedys are a wealthy family from Massachusetts, the most famous being John F. Kennedy. He was the president of the USA and was assassinated. Robert Kennedy ran for president and was also assassinated. Their brother Ted Kennedy is a senator for the state of Massachusetts.
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This link here should help you\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_assassination_theories
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Without a doubt it's JFK and his death
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Actually the way this event was described and detailed by the Warren Commission makes me and a number of other reject the findings. I remain conviced it was nearly impossible to have killed Kennedy using that vantage point and that rifle. \n\nFirst off its a bolt action rifle with a box magazone equipped with a scope that had poor eye relief.  Getting off the number of shots Oswald would have been a one in 10,000 chance. \nThe car is moving away accellerating on a curve reaching speads of 35 mph and remember, the Zapruder film shows kennedy being hit forward, not the rear. \n\nOne Marine sniper with 45 ocnfirmed kills from Vietnam said even he could not have managed that kill from that position using that rifle and scope. \n\nOur government painted us a picture.
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Cuba, in retaliation for JFK trying to assassinate Castro via the Mob.  FBI agents tried to track down leads involving meetings between Oswald and Cuban agents in Mexico City, but were recalled by FBI central office....so the leads were never fully developed.  The Cuban agent involved has never commented on this subject.
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I doubt that anyone knows how many people were involved in JFK's murder.  I am sure Oswald was NOT the only one involved.  From what I have read, he didn't even qualify on the rifle range when he was in the USMC, and that was with a semi-automatic rifle.  The Carcano he is accused of using would not be the weapon of choice for such a job.  That particular model tended to jam and you would want a more tried and true weapon for such a task, such as a Mauser 98.
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I read one that was terrible, but funny..Don't remember where I got it, but here it goes:\n\nA week before Lincoln was assassinated he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was assassinated he was in Marilyn Monroe\n\n~Nikki
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See if you can find out who killed JFK.
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This link is the official government bio of JFK
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Yes, it's true it was reported there first.\n\nThe real killers (plural) were the right wing conservatives at that time. Kennedy was making this country too liberal for them, he didn't like the war and was trying to stop it, they liked it, it meant big money for the defense industry.\n\nHe also cared more about people than big business. so they murdered him and blamed it on some poor sap.\n\nJohnson, who replaced him as president and escalated the war was a political conservative. He and Senator Arlen Spector invented the "single bullet theory" to mislead the public into thinking it was just a lone assasin. People are so gullible.
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We may never know but I received these unsoliticited links today in my email, interestingly, the day after I saw the movie "Bobby" \n\n http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112306A.shtml\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2006/11/who_shot_bobby_kennedy_1.html
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It happened in Cincinnati.\n\nT.I. is okay, but one person who was traveling with him died and three others were injured.  They got shot at while driving up I-75 (the main interstate in town) by some thugs who followed them from a nightclub in the city.
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Kennedy was President from January 20, 1961 until his assassination on November 22, 1963.