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John F. KennedyThe son of Joseph P. Kennedy, he graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the navy the following year. He commanded a patrol torpedo (PT) boat in World War II and was gravely injured in an attack by a Japanese destroyer; he was later decorated for heroism. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1946 and the U.S. Senate in 1952, he supported social-welfare legislation and became increasingly committed to civil rights; in foreign affairs, he supported the Cold War policies of the Truman administration. In 1960 he won the Democratic nomination for president, beating out Lyndon B. Johnson, who became his running mate. In his acceptance speech Kennedy declared, "We stand on the edge of a New Frontier"; thereafter the phrase "New Frontier" was associated with his programs. After a vigorous campaign managed by his brother Robert F. Kennedy and aided financially by his father, he narrowly defeated the Republican candidate, Richard Nixon. He was the youngest person and the first Roman Catholic elected president. In his inaugural address he called on Americans to "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." His legislative program, including massive income-tax cuts and a sweeping civil-rights measure, received little support in the Congress, though he did win approval of the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress. In 1961 he committed the U.S. to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. In foreign affairs he approved a plan drawn up during the Eisenhower administration to land an invasion force of Cuban exiles on their homeland, but the Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) was a fiasco. Determined to combat the spread of communism in Asia, he sent military advisers and other assistance to South Vietnam. During the Cuban missile crisis (1962) he imposed a naval blockade on Cuba and demanded that the Soviet Union remove its nuclear missiles from the island. In 1963 he successfully concluded the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union. In November 1963, while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, he was assassinated by a sniper, allegedly Lee Harvey Oswald. The killing is considered the most notorious political murder of the 20th century. Kennedy's youth, energy, and charming family brought him world adulation and sparked the idealism of a generation, for whom the Kennedy White House became known as "Camelot." Revelations about his powerful family and his personal life, especially concerning his extramarital affairs, tainted his image in later years. John F. Kennedy AssassinationThe assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife in a presidential motorcade within Dealey Plaza. He was the fourth U.S. President to be assassinated, and the eighth to die while in office. An official investigation by the Warren Commission was conducted over a 10-month period, and its report was published in September 1964, with the commissioners concluding that the assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza. According to some polls, about 70% to 90% of the American public do not accept some of the basic conclusions of the Warren Commission, and this skepticism was shared by some prominent government officials including those who served on the Warren Commission itself. A later official investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was conducted from 1976 to 1979, when it concluded that Kennedy was assassinated "probably... as a result of a conspiracy". The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation, and has spawned a number of Kennedy assassination theories. Resources about Assassination & History of John F. KennedyKennedy Assassination Home Page The Kennedys JFK Assassination Resources Online John F. Kennedy Assassination Homepage The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination The Academic JFK Assassination Site JFK Murder Solved JFK Assassination Research Materials The JFK Assassination by David Giamarco The Kennedy Assassination and the Vietnam War New Orleans/Garrison JFK Assassination Investigation Toward an epistemology of the JFK assassination JFK FILES: JFK Assassination Information JFK Assassination Review Board Releases Top Secret Documents The JFK Assassination The Murderous Illusion Sophistic Synthesis in JFK Assassination Rhetoric Research on the Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy The Kennedy Assassination by John McAdams The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination The Kennedy Assassination The Kennedy Assassination in the Age of Open Secrets |
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CIA Confesses to Kennedy Assassination by Marita Lorenz - Trial Testimony by Deposition Under Oath of CIA agent Marita Lorenz From the Defamation Trial of E. Howard Hunt vs. Liberty Lobby United States District Court for Southern District of Florida, January 1985. JFK: How the Media Assassinated the Real Story by Robert Hennelly & Jerry Policoff - If the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was one of the darkest tragedies in the republic's history, the reporting of it has remained one of the worst travesties of the American media. The Assassination of JFK, RFK & MLK & Conspiracy - Imagi-vision, Inc. and the Assassination Web offer information on the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations. |
JFK Documents Raise Questions - The latest batch of John F. Kennedy assassination documents raises new questions about an examination of the president's brain and lays out unresolved discrepancies in other medical evidence. JFK Assassination Timeline - This is a collective effort from all of us here at Probable Cause, and we hope that you, our supporters, can help out too. This is a mammoth task and we hope you will work with us on this one! Rose Cheramie: How She Predicted the JFK Assassination - Lt. Francis Fruge of the Louisiana State Police received a phone call from Moosa Memorial Hospital in Eunice. A Mrs. Louise Guillory, the hospital administrator told him that there was an accident victim in the emergency ward... |
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