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Kennedy
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the
dissemination of truth”
-JFK’s Assassination-
On November 22, 1963, the president and his
wife landed in Dallas; he had spoken in San
Antonio, Austin and Fort Worth the day before.
From the airfield, the party then traveled in a
motorcade to the Dallas Trade Mart, the site of
Jack’s next speaking engagement. Shortly after
12:30 p.m., as the motorcade was passing
through downtown Dallas, shots rang out;
Kennedy was struck twice, in the neck and
head, and was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a nearby hospital.
Twenty-four-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, known to have Communist sympathies, was
arrested for the killing but was shot and fatally wounded two days later by local nightclub
owner Jack Ruby while being led to jail. Almost immediately, alternative theories of
Kennedy’s assassination emerged–including conspiracies run by the KGB, the Mafia and the
U.S. military-industrial complex, among others. A presidential commission led by Chief
Justice Earl Warren concluded that Oswald had acted alone, but speculation and debate
over the assassination has persisted.