Post by JE CorbettHow would the history books report the assassination of JFK and the murder
of Tippit. I'm giving you a blank canvass her to fill in as you please. Tell us
what the future generations of students would be told about these two
murders. Take your time. Do it right.
I'll write on Gil's behalf:
On November 22nd 1963, President Kennedy's motorcade traveled through downtown Dallas. In his Presidential limousine was his wife Jackie, and the Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie. Suddenly, shots rang out from an area known as Dealey Plaza. No one was ever able to determine how many shots were fired or from what directions. A former Marine and family man named Lee Oswald, who had worked in a building overlooking the President's parade route, was arrested later that afternoon and accused of killing a Dallas policeman. Oswald was subsequently charged with killing the President, despite protesting his innocence and being denied legal representation. A botched autopsy of the President provided no clarity to the tragedy, and on November 24th, a mob-connected Dallas nightclub owner named Jack Ruby shot Oswald to death in the basement of the Dallas police station. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, announced a blue-ribbon panel, later known as the Warren Commission, would investigate the mystery. In late 1964, the committee released its findings, now known as the Warren Commission Report, but the report raised more questions than it answered. The President's death, and the inability for anyone to successfully reach a conclusion about what happened, left everyone scratching their heads and shrugging their shoulders. All that could ever be determined with any certainty was that some people did something.