JFK assassination theories by Victor Kim

JFK assassination theories

1. The JFK Assassination
Theories
Victor Kim
SBF-01
Instructor: Mary Villani

2. Various Assassination Theories
•There have been various theories/conspiracies regarding the assassination of
the thirty fifth president of the United States, John F. Kennedy.
•Of these Theories include:
–The Single Bullet Theory (Linking Lee Harvey Oswald)
–The Grassy Knoll Theory
–The Cubans
–The K.G.B.
–The Mafia
–The US Government/CIA
–LBJ Theory
–The Zero Theory
–Israeli conspiracy

3. Quick Assassination Overview
•John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, in
Dallas, Texas.
•The thirty fifth president was shot while riding in a car with his wife,
Jacqueline Kennedy, while riding through the Dealey Plaza.
•When the President’s car passed the Depository building in the Dealey
Plaza and continued down Elm Street, shots were fired at Kennedy.
•It has been concluded by various government inspections that a man by
the name of Lee Harvey Oswald had assassinated the president.
•However, many were and are not satisfied with this conclusion, and
various conspiracy theories as well as other theories as to how he died
were created.

4. Lee Harvey Oswald
•Lee Harvey Oswald was the accused assassin of President John F.
Kennedy.
•As a child, Oswald kept to himself and did not socialize much.
•Oswald dropped out of school in the ninth grade, never to receive a high
school diploma.
•He later became a Marxist, eventually leaving to live in the Soviet Union,
later to return to the United States.

5. Lee Harvey Oswald (Cont’d)
•Upon the date of the president’s assassination, he was reported missing
to the police by his supervisor at the Depository.
•Oswald was then arrested an hour and twenty minutes later after the
assassination, for killing a police officer, then charged with the murder of
John F. Kennedy.
•Oswald never went to trial due to his untimely death, murdered by Jack
Ruby

6. Evidence Linking Lee Harvey Oswald
•During Investigations, a M91/38 bolt-action rifle was found on the sixth
floor of the Texas Book Depository Building.
•This rifle matched the bullet found on a random stretcher in the hospital..
•Lee Harvey Oswald’s palm print was also found on the bolt action rifle.
•Oswald purchased the rifle under a fake name.
•However, for Oswald to have been the murderer of the president, the
single bullet theory would have to be true.

7. The Single Bullet Theory
•The Single Bullet Theory is the theory that a single bullet went through
both Kennedy and Connally, injuring them both. A second bullet fired
later would kill the president
•According to the single bullet theory, a one-inch long bullet penetrated
Kennedy’s neck, then traveled to Governor Connally’s chest and wrist and
fastened itself in the Governor’s thigh. If the bullet had made this
tremendous journey, then the bullet penetrated 15 layers of clothing, 7
layers of skin, approximately 15 inches of tissue, struck a tie knot,
removed 4 inches of rib and shattered a radius bone.

8. The Single Bullet Theory (Cont’d)
•The bullet’s path however, seemed unlikely, as it would have zigged and
zagged through the air in order to hit the president and the governor.

9. The Single Bullet Theory: True or False
•Various tests were conducted in response to the single bullet theory, by
shooting a bullet through animal flesh and bone.
•The results yielded that when a bullet penetrates flesh, it will not remain
in a linear path, as it will tend to move.
•However, the bullet that was found and concluded to be the single bullet
was found in pristine condition, with no defects on it.
•If this was the bullet that penetrated skin and shattered bone, then why
was it in perfect condition?

10. The Grassy Knoll Theory
•The Grassy Knoll Theory is the theory that includes more than one
gunman, in addition to Lee Harvey Oswald. This theory also provides an
alternate place for an assassin to be, proving that Lee Harvey Oswald may
have been set up.
•This Theory comes from “puffs of smoke” and “outlines of assassins” in
various pictures taken of the knolls at the time of the assassination as well
as eyewitnesses that report sights of these things.

11. The Grassy Knoll Theory (Cont’d)
•Various parts of pictures that were taken before and during the
assassination of the president may make it seem like there was an
assassin at the Grassy Knoll.
•In addition to pictures, eyewitnesses such as Ed Hoffman have claimed
that “a man, dressed in a business suit, shot from behind the fence, and
then tossed the rifle to a man dressed as a railroad worker, who
disassembled it, put it into a case, and walked off.”

12. Disproving The Grassy Knoll
•There have been discrepancies with Ed Hoffman’s testimony, thus
disproving the grassy knoll theory.
•Sam Holland and two others with him, who supposedly went over to the
fence where they thought they saw a man, did not see anything that Ed
Hoffman had stated, thus contradicting both of their accounts.
•In addition to this, Ed Hoffman’s claim that the gunman gave the gun to
another person to disassemble couldn’t have been correct because in the
parking lot, there were masses of cars and that the gunman could not
have moved swiftly enough to comply with Hoffman’s claims.

13. The Cubans
•Another theory involves the Cubans, as some suspect that they are
responsible for the death of JFK
•The theory states that JFK was killed by Cubans who were upset with
Kennedy due to his actions regarding the Bay of Pigs .
•The Bay of Pigs invasion was an invasion funded by the US government for
Cuban exiles to invade the Bay of Pigs.
•Kennedy refused to allow the US army to assist. By staying out of the
affair, the exiles were sitting ducks for Castro and his men. The event was
a complete disaster as thousands were killed or captured by Castro.

14. The Cubans: Weak Hypothesis?
•The Cuban theory appears to be very unlikely, as there are too many
missing factors.
•Although Cubans did have the motive to kill the president, they could not
have
–Framed Lee Harvey Oswald
–Escaped the Police
–Hired Jack Ruby to Silence Oswald
•The more believable, yet far fetched theory would be that Castro Himself,
killed Kennedy in response to all of the attempts on his life.

15. The K.G.B.
•A more feasible theory, the K.G.B. theory links directly with Lee Harvey
Oswald.
•It was known the Lee Harvey Oswald spent two years in Russia because of
his firm beliefs in the Soviet Union. In addition to this, he married a
K.G.B’s colonel's niece.
•It would be easy to conclude that the Soviet Union sent Oswald to kill the
president.

16. The Mafia
•The theory that the Mafia killed JFK involves more of John f. Kennedy’s
policies.
•During Kennedy’s presidential term, he took a very aggressive stance
against organized crimes.
•This breakdown of organized crimes was far more drastic than any other
president that served before him.
•Kennedy’s brother, Robert Kennedy was responsible for the enmity of
Teamster’s Union boss Jimmy Hoffa, in addition to other mafia members.
•It became even more evident when it was discovered that Jack Ruby had
ties with the mob, thus explaining his role in the murder of Oswald, IF the
Mafia theory proved to be correct.

17. The Mafia: Possible or Not?
•If, in fact, the Mafia did organize the assassination of John F. Kennedy,
then it would be hard to explain roles in the assassination.
•It would be difficult to explain how the Mafia would have gotten a hold of
Lee Harvey Oswald to play such a large role in the assassination.
•In addition to this, even if Oswald was used and killed by Jack Ruby, who
did have connections with the Mafia, others would have had to have been
killed to keep everything silent including Jack Ruby.
•The whole idea of the Mafia plotting to kill the president makes little
sense because they would have a lot to lose and very little to gain from
killing the president.

18. The US Government/CIA
•There would be three major reasons why the CIA would have had a part in
the assassination of John F Kennedy:
1.John F Kennedy gave up Cuba, the country in which the
CIA worked extremely hard for in regards to the struggle
of the exiles.
2.The US still had control over Vietnam, so the CIA would
want Kennedy to be killed in order for him not to make
the same mistake he did with Cuba.
3.John F Kennedy blamed the CIA for the failure of the Bay
of Pigs, even thought it was mainly his fault for the failure,
as he did not allow US soldiers to assist.

19. Evidence pointing to the CIA
•The single piece of evidence that may have cleared up any discrepancies
to where the shots actually came from, has gone missing.
•Simply put, JKF’s brain is gone.
•As well as the actual brain, slides, X-rays, photographs and other medicals
that the Kennedy family had in possession were required to be handed
over to the National Archives. However, the brain and several other items
were not returned.

20. The Zero Theory
•The Zero Theory relates to the theory that ever since 1840, every
president that has been elected in office with the year ending in “0” has
died in office.
•Kennedy and Lincoln were both assassinated during their presidencies.
•In addition to this, their election dates coincide with the Zero Theory.
Lincoln was elected President 1860
Kennedy was elected president in 1960

21. LBJ Theory
•The LBJ Theory involves Kennedy’s vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson.
•Kennedy was seriously considering removing Lyndon Johnson’s name as
his running mate in the voting ballot, which may have angered Lyndon.
•Madeleine Duncan Brown, a woman claiming having a twenty one year
old relationship with Johnson, recalls that the night before the
assassination, Johnson told her that “tomorrow, those goddamned
Kennedys are never going to embarrass me again; that’s not a threat,
that’s a promise”

22. LBJ Theory (Cont’d)
•More suspicious evidence suggests that LBJ organized the assassination
of JFK when a picture catches an interesting scene on Air Force One,
where a Texas Congressman is winking at Johnson.

23. The Israeli conspiracy
•The Israeli conspiracy was formed because of the dissatisfaction coming
from the Israeli government when Kennedy began to put pressure on
their goals of a nuclear program at the Negev Nuclear Research Center.
•In addition to this, the Israelis were also suspected because they were
angry over Kennedy’s sympathies with Arabs and his use of men that were
previously in their rocket programs.

24. Theories Connect and Collide
•Of the theories listed before, there are many connecting bridges in-
between them.
•The Mafia had connections with Cuba as they were involved in Havana
casinos.
•In addition to this, Mafia families supported Cuban exiles with money,
anticipating their pay when Castro was overthrown.
•These coincidences may be mere coincidences, but it is peculiar how each
part that is connected with each other has been, at one point or another,
accused and blamed for the assassination of JFK.

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