Why the assassination of J.F. Kennedy is still suspicious
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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
After Kennedy's military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 during World War II in the South Pacific, his aspirations turned political. With the encouragement and grooming of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960.
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The novel Gideon's March by J. J. Marric, published in 1962 by Hodder and Stoughton in London, gives an eerily prescient look at the Kennedy assassination. Inspector George Gideon learns of a plot to assassinate President Kennedy during a state visit to London. The assassination is to take place during a parade, by means of a bomb; the assassin is a Southern bigot who hates the President for his Roman Catholic faith and his civil-rights initiatives. Interestingly, the assassin is given the distinctly Irish name of "O'Hara". The novel's publication a year before the actual assassination is reminiscent of Morgan Robertson's 1898 novel Futility, which depicts the sinking of a massive ocean liner called "Titan" fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic.
Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Dodd, Mead 1980) by Edmund Aubrey, brings the renowned consulting detective (who, by 1963, would have been approximately 115 years old) out of his Sussex retirement to investigate the Kennedy assassination.
John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. That Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, was the conclusion of multiple government investigations, including the ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963-1964 and the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) of 1976-1979. Since the original 1966 Gallup poll, show a majority of the public hold beliefs contrary to these findings. The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories…
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- He was the first president to also be a Boy Scout.
- John F. Kennedy was the first president to use the desk that was a present from Queen Victoria.
- Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic president.
- He was the youngest man elected president, but not our youngest president, Teddy Roosevelt was younger at the time of his inauguration.
- John F. Kennedy is one of two presidents that is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
- One of his favorite poems was "I Have a Rendezvous With Death" by Alan Seeger.
- Kennedy was the only president to appoint their brother to a cabinet post.
- Kennedy was a very fast random speaker, with upwards of 350 words per minute.
- His right leg was 3/4 of an inch longer than his left, so he wore corrective shoes to make up for it.
- Kennedy canceled all White House subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune. When a copy of the Tribune was used to line a box for newborn puppies in the White House, JFK reportedly commented “It’s finally found its proper use.”
- John F. Kennedy had a sister, Rosemary, who was mentally retarded.
- Kennedy was the first president who had served in the U.S. Navy.
- Kennedy was called Jack by his friends.
- He was named after his grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald.
