Introduction
From The Kennedy Assassination Resource
At 12:30pm on the 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
A man called Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in a Dallas cinema at 1:50pm on the same day. He was arrested for allegedly shooting police officer JD Tippit, less than 45 minutes after Kennedy was assassinated. When he was arrested, police found Oswald in possession of a .38 Smith and Western revolver. This was apparently the gun that killed Tippit. However, the police radio reports from the scene of the killing, said that the shells were from an automatic. Although they are the same calibre, they are a different shape and could not have been fired from Oswald's revolver. Revolvers don't discharge shells after firing. But before Oswald had even been charged with Tippit's murder, police were certain that Oswald killed the president. Dallas police captain, Will Fritz, said, "this man killed President John F. Kennedy".
In the morning of November 24th, Oswald was being transferred from the police station, via the basement, when he was shot by Jack Ruby, a local night-club owner with Mafia connections.
One week after Kennedy's death, President Lyndon Johnson issued Executive Order #11130, ordering a presidential commission to investigate the assassination. The members of this commission were hand-picked by Johnson. The commission lasted ten months and relied entirely on the FBI and CIA to do all it's investigating. The Warren Commission published a 26-volume report, concluding that Oswald killed Kennedy, and that he was the lone assassin. This relied heavily on the 'magic bullet' theory.
According to the Warren Report, a single bullet caused at least seven wounds in two separate people, and shattered two bones. The bullet later fell off Governor Connally's stretcher in Parkland Hospital. The 'magic bullet' was found in pristine condition. Later tests were carried out with a bullet of the same sort being fired through a human wrist bone only. The bullet was mangled. However the 'magic bullet' apparently caused all these wounds, but emerged with hardly a scratch on it.
While Oswald was a teenager he developed an interest in the Communist party and Marxism. He joined the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol and served under David Ferrie, who had close ties with the CIA and an ex-FBI and military intelligence agent called Guy Banister.
Oswald joined the Marine Corps, and trained at the Aviation Fundamental School in the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. He studied map reading, radar and air traffic control theory. He also studied Russian.
Oswald applied for and was granted a passport. The passport was good for European travel, including USSR. Oswald arrived in Moscow on the 16th of October. He was ordered to leave the USSR by 8pm on October 21st. He slashed his wrists and was taken to hospital where he was discharged one week later.
He visited the US embassy saying he wanted to revoke his US citizenship and hand over classified data to the Russians. There is no record of the embassy trying to dissuade him. Oswald got permission to stay in Russia for another year. One day later he was given five thousand roubles and a job in the Byelorussian radio and television factory in Minsk.
Oswald wrote a series of letters to the US embassy discussing his possible return to America. The State Department told the embassy that for 'security reasons' Oswald should be issued a passport. He was given one, and $435 travel expenses. He returned to the US on the 13th June 1962. By this time, the CIA, FBI, ONI and military intelligence agencies had files on Oswald.
He was labelled as FBI informant #S172. James Hosty was an FBI agent in Dallas, who was assigned to keep tabs on Oswald. He later destroyed a note that Oswald had given him just days before the assassination of Kennedy. When he was arrested, Oswald had Hosty's phone number written on a scrap of paper.
There are severe doubts that Oswald did, or even could have killed Kennedy. This site provides information to support that theory, but ultimately it is up to you to decide what you think...
