Kennedy Democratic War Power

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

Ángel Manuel Molina Expósito

Abstract

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an ordinary teenager who became the first catholic president of United States of America. His name is part of many important wars and events but also because of his private life and relationships with famous American women and also important businessmen, this is what makes John different from other presidents and the reason of his death.

KEYWORDS: Kennedy, Democratic, War, Power.

Kennedy is one of the most popular surnames known all over the world, the reason is because in 1961 while United States of America was in trouble because of the Cold War, which was the result of the Second World War, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, known as Jack, a guy who was born in 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts was chosen as the President of the United States of America.

Nowadays is one of the most important Presidents of USA because of his short period as president being that he was only president for three years as he was killed during his third year of power.

The Kennedy’s clan started when his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, known as Joe, travelled from Ireland to USA to work as tonier, Joe always tried to earn money and save it, when he finished his studies in Harvard, he became president of the Columbia Trust Company, a bank in Boston, after that he becomes the General Director of the Naval Station " Fore River", then, he leaves the naval station to work in the Hayden Brokerage where he succeeded, only in a year he earned enough money to buy a house in Brookline. In 1923 he was gambling on the stock exchange as independent banker and also takes part in the movie business. Joe was a very important man who educated his children to be the number one; this fact made than Jack did not show his weaknesses and devote himself on his career.

Jack Kennedy had many health problems since he was born; he had several diseases as Scarlatina, Leukaemia, Addison and Hepatitis during his life. That is why he was given the anointing of the sick for four times.

When he was a teenager, he felt back pains due to sport injury which increase during the incident of the Second World War where he was sent to the Pacific and he got hurt while he was handling a boat, however he arrived alive with his crew and he was awarded as war hero.

When he comeback to Boston he decided to launch his political career and he was chosen deputy of the Democratic Party, after that he was elected senator of Massachusetts State. He always tried to help ordinary people lowering prices and finding security for old people which make raise his popularity around United States.

Jack’s attitude towards marriage followed the pattern established by his father, he must marry, had children and also sleep with every woman he could. In 1953 he married with Jacqueline Bouvier, he became leader of the liberal Democratic Party and was nominated for president; he won Richard M. Nixon and became the youngest and first catholic President of the United States of America.

John Kennedy sworn as the 35th president of the United States of America in 1961.In his inaugural speech John spoke about the needs for citizens to be more active delivering one of his most famous lines "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." And also he asked other nations to fight together against what he called "the common enemies of men: "tyranny, poverty, disease and war".

Joseph P. Kennedy spent his money, time and also the reputation of the family in elections of 1960, he made a deal with Sam Giancana and the powerful crime syndicate of Chicago ensuring the victory of John F. Kennedy in those states where the union had influence. The treatment provided the guarantee that Giaconda’s men would make propaganda about Kennedy in the trade unions and monetary contributions to the campaign by the Teamsters Union. The elections were hotly contested, but finally Kennedy defeated Nixon by a majority of 118,000 final votes.

This was also influenced by the electoral campaign that Kennedy made, Kennedy appears as a media star, initially Nixon was the favourite candidate for Americans, but in 1952 Kennedy was successful because of the famous speech "Checkers" by Nixon that upset the CIA and put them against the candidate.

The campaign of Nixon suffered a major setback when newspapers began to talk about a private fund for bribery collected by the senator and seventy-six conservative businessmen of California, this endangered the future of Nixon, he offered an apologetic explanation of his finances, including the lines regarding his wife´s "respectable Republican cloth coat". Additionally, he told of a little dog named Checkers that was given as a present to his young daughters, "I want to say right now that regardless of what they say, we are going to keep it."

This speech make heads turn in the country and consolidated the division of two groups, those who worshiped Nixon and those who hated him, but at the moment of the speech, the high command of the CIA had evidence that Nixon had committed bribery.

At this time there is a political fight between two positions, the Democrats and Republicans. Democrats are those which will favour government action to monitor and regulate their business activities to the economy, they think that economy must be monitored by the state. On the other hand, they are opposed to regular personal matter, such as morals and manners of citizens. They are favour of the social struggles of finding a community improvement and the establishment of social welfare measures, especially the minority population of that country. They try to avoid conflicts and engage in foreign wars to address international problems through organizations like the ONU.

In the other hand the Republicans, believe that the government should be small and should not intervene in economic activity, leaving the self-regulation. They think is important to regulate the moral behaviour of society, they are against gay marriage or drug use, for example. They think that their country´s society everyone´s roles are given and the way it is set up is correct and that there needs to be changed. The Republicans are in favour of increased militarism and to maintain U.S power through shows of force.

Kennedy is the head of the Democratic Party and Nixon the head of the Republican Party at this moment.

During the elections, Kennedy was informed about the case of the Bay of Pigs and used it to score points in the elections.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961 was an unsuccessful attempt between United States and Cuban exiles to overthrow the Government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The Bay of Pigs was not originally John F. Kennedy's idea. As the communist nature of Fidel Castro's regime became apparent, the urge to topple his government grew. Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration planned the invasion, which would be handled by the CIA.

The situation was delicate, since the plan was to overthrow a government with which the United States was not at war.

Kennedy accused Eisenhower of not doing enough about Castro. In fact, Eisenhower might have launched an invasion himself, had a proper excuse presented itself. Instead, he bequeathed an advanced plan to Kennedy, who was strongly inclined to pursue it.

Nixon was convinced that the manipulations of Kennedy against Cuba gave him the victory; Kennedy transmitted a harder image with Castro and the Communism.

The Cubans had presented evidence to the United Nations as early as October that the United States was training mercenaries. American involvement was not likely to remain much of a secret.

On April 12, 1961, Kennedy told a press conference that the United States unequivocally had no intention of intervening in Cuban affairs. Five days later, the invasion took place.

The invasion force had been assembled in Guatemala. It departed in six ships from a port in Nicaragua on April 14. On April 15, the American-backed Cuban exiles began to bomb airfields near two points in the Bay of Pigs and the Zapata swamps in Cuba.

The attack began shortly after midnight on April 16. Coral reefs, misidentified by U-2 spy planes as seaweed, held up landings. Two ships were stranded 80 yards from shore and some heavy equipment was lost. With the invasion plainly underway, Rusk announced on Monday, April 17, that the U.S. would not intervene in Cuba nor would it in the future.

Because world opinion was against the U.S., Kennedy decided not to provide further air cover until it could be launched from a landing strip somewhere in Cuba. This never happened, and Cuban forces had complete control of the air. A final desperate attempt at air support resulted in the loss of four American airmen on April 19, but the outcome was already sealed.

The invaders surrendered on the afternoon of April 19. More than 200 people been killed; another 1,197 were taken captive. On April 20, Kennedy told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that the episode was Cubans fighting Cubans and that the U.S. had not been involved.

Mass trials of the captured men were held and nearly all were sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. After 20 months of negotiations, they were released in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine.

The failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion set the stage for further aggressions against Castro from his northern aggressor. President Kennedy made little effort to conceal his continued desire to see Castro deposed. Castro’s insecurity about the future of his rule over Cuba led to the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles there, prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

The Bay of Pigs failure described Kennedy as a victim of the ambition of the CIA. They say that Kennedy inherited a plan for invasion of his predecessor and allowed to go ahead without being informed.

Bay of Pigs was the first political defeat of Jack Kennedy, and the president wanted revenge. But not against the advisers and federal agencies, which had allegedly misled the president. His victim was Fidel Castro, and Kennedy spent the remaining days of legislature, thinking about how to make him pay with his life for soiling the honour of the Kennedys.

In June 1961, Kennedy met with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, Austria. Kennedy was surprised by Khrushchev's combative tone. At one point, Khrushchev threatened to cut off Allied access to Berlin. The Soviet leader pointed out the Lenin Peace Medals he was wearing, and Kennedy answered, "I hope you keep them." Just two months later, Khrushchev ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall to stop the flood of East Germans into West Germany.

As a result of these threatening developments, Kennedy ordered substantial increases in American intercontinental ballistic missile forces. He also added five new army divisions and increased the nation's air power and military reserves. The Soviets meanwhile resumed nuclear testing and President Kennedy responded by reluctantly reactivating American tests in early 1962.

The major victory of Kennedy as president came with the crisis of the missiles of October, 1962, when, before the frightened look of the world, The United States and the Soviet Union they were at the edge of a nuclear warfare.

Nikita Jruschov had been surprised arming Fidel Castro with nuclear missiles and, confronted by the inflexible firmness of a young president, went back and agreed to withdraw them.

In the culminating point of the crisis, Kennedy mobilized a vast army of men and armament ready to attack Cuba and to unleash probably a nuclear holocaust.

The invasion plan consisted in the increase of paratroopers that would exceed the number of paratroopers of the Battle of Normandy in 1944.

The Pentagon estimated that 18,500 would die or seriously injured Americans in the first ten days of combat. The fleet of the Strategic Air Command was placed in the maximum state of military preparedness before widespread warfare.

One eight of the bomber stayed in the air at all times during the thirty days. USA was ready to launch devastating nuclear weapons on targets in Cuba and the Soviet Union. The aircraft were scheduled for 1190 sorties in the first 24 hours everything was planned to terrorize the enemy and make it clear that they were still a power, so they used more than one hundred thousand foot soldiers ready for combat, deployed in west coast ports, a few hours from Cuba accompanied by a vast naval fleet that sailed the Caribbean Sea and the South Atlantic, near to the site of the battle.

The American war machine was at its maximum performance, according to military documents that went into the public domain years later, and only awaiting the green light from the white house. The determination of the president and his show of force apparently overcame the threat.

Kennedy won admiration not only for his success also by his cold style at the moment they discovered missiles.

North America had to learn to confront the Communist aggression and Vietnam was the site chosen to demonstrate that according to Rostow [1] "we are not a paper tiger." We must handle Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Within weeks, 400 members of the army were in South Vietnam, where they had to start training agents for operations against North Vietnam.

The President saved his image after Bay of Pigs, but it was all a myth. The President embodied a lie as the perfect husband and hard-working man when the agents responsible for the security of the White House watched him like a sex-obsessed person willing to take risks just only to satisfy his obsession.

Newspapers gave the world a different face of the President, was seen as an ordinary family with no problems, when the President spent his night in hotels suites guarded by officers, in which the whole plant was reserved for anyone to know about the "good company" of the president. In a concrete situation in the Olympic Hotel, an official was accompanied by two luxury prostitutes for a meet with the President, and an official claims to have heard the officer accompanied by the girls saying them, "If you say something about tonight, I´ll take care that you were send to a mental hospital and that do not go out ever."

Many Hollywood actresses visited the President. Powers [2] was the one who organized the flights to Washington of the actresses, if they told their agent not to do that job; his career in Hollywood will fail. Names like Alicia Darr Clark, Angie Dickinson, Marlene Dietrich, Judith Campbell Exner and the most famous Marilyn Monroe are said to have been lovers of Jack.

The Kennedy Clan never accepted the relationship between the brothers of Jack and Marilyn. It was suspected that the actress had communist friends; she had information that could affect them badly.

The truth is that she imagined that Jack loved her. There are data from the first meeting between Kennedy a Monroe in October 1961 at a party at the home of the sister of the President. The President requested an officer to prepare the actress in the pool cabin. The officer warned him about the risk, she was an unstable person, had aborted several times, was a cocaine addict and addicted to barbiturates and also a potential suicide, the President said that he just wanted a romp with her.

Marilyn moved to be closer to Kennedy but it ended when she found the president with another woman, she thought "I am an actress not treat me like a prostitute" but he was the President and there was nothing to do.

A few months later Marilyn was singing happy birthday to the President of the United States. Three weeks later she died. The reason for her death is not known, but there is a relationship between her knowledge on important issues of the White house with her death.

As a result of all these affairs, the President had a painful venereal infection that accompanied him until his death. The main victim of cheating was his wife Jacqueline, who spent more weekends at the family retreat in Glen Ora, when she was in the White House there was no fun for Jack, in "My life with Jacqueline Kennedy" is described as she called and asked: ¿Has the President something to do tonight?. The President was busy with his "meetings" and with Vietnam in mind.

The area known as French Indochina became the focus of independence movements. French Indochina included the countries that today are called Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Fighting in Indochina lasted for nearly 30 years and had world-wide consequences.

In 1951 Kennedy visited French Indochina. The United States’ policy was to give full support to the French in their struggle against the communist rebellions in Vietnam. When Kennedy came back to Washington D.C, he proclaimed that weapons alone could not stop the communists from a full take-over in Southeast Asia, but it was very necessary to give the people anti-communistic thoughts. Without the support from the native Vietnamese, there was no hope for success in Southeast Asia. In 1954 France surrendered Indochina, and Vietnam was divided into two parts, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Laos and Cambodia were given full independence.

In December 1961, President Kennedy signed a declaration, in which he promised to help South Vietnam maintain its independence. The United States’ effort in the war substantially increased.

After World War II, the area known as French Indochina became the focus of independence movements. French Indochina included the countries that today are called Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Fighting in Indochina lasted for nearly 30 years and had world-wide consequences.

In 1951 Kennedy visited French Indochina. The United States’ policy was to give full support to the French in their struggle against the communist rebellions in Vietnam. When Kennedy came back to Washington D.C., he proclaimed that weapons alone could not stop the communists from a full takeover in Southeast Asia, but it was very necessary to give the people anti-communistic thoughts. Without the support from the native Vietnamese, there was no hope for success in Southeast Asia. In 1954 France surrendered Indochina, and Vietnam was divided into two parts, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Laos and Cambodia were given full independence.

In December 1961, President Kennedy signed a declaration, in which he promised to help South Vietnam maintain its independence. The United States' effort in the war substantially increased. The same month the first American troops arrived in Saigon. 400 uniformed army personnel were sent to operate two helicopter units. The Kennedy Administration, however, said that the troops were not meant for combat. In December 1962, the United States had 11 200 troops in South Vietnam.

In the meanwhile, the Diem government was unable to defeat the communists. They were also unable to cope with the growing unrest of the South Vietnamese Buddhists, with many of them burning themselves to death in protest of the war. Lots were arrested and charged of undermining the government. The government claimed that the Buddhist groups had been infiltrated by communists and politically hostile persons.

On 1 November 1963 the Diem government was overthrown in a military coup and Diem was executed. A new government, headed by General Duong Van Minh, was established.

President Kennedy wanted to keep South Vietnam from having a communistic government and before his inauguration, he and President Eisenhower had several discussions about the Vietnam issue. Quite often Vietnam became Centre of their discussion, and Kennedy felt great concern about Vietnam.

11 October 1963, McGeorge Bundy signed the National Security Action Memorandum No. 263. He wrote that President Kennedy had said no formal announcement should be made on the plans to withdraw 1 000 military personnel by the end of 1963. But when Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, returned from Saigon, he and Kennedy agreed that an announcement should be made on the subject.

President Kennedy was determined to let the public believe he had all intentions to carry on with the war in Vietnam. In 1963, Kennedy's special counselor, Arthur M. Schlesinger said "Kennedy was still playing out his public hand while secretly wondering how to get out." This gives us a clear view that he in fact intended to withdraw regardless of victory, by mid-1965. President Kennedy supported a full military withdrawal from Vietnam, but he said "if he announced a withdrawal of American military personnel from Vietnam before the 1964 election, there would be a wild conservative outcry against returning him to the Presidency for a second term." Further he said in a private comment to the White House aide, Kenneth O'Donnell, "In 1965, I'll become one of the most unpopular Presidents in history. I'll be damned everywhere as a Communist appeaser. But I don't care. If I tried to pull out completely now from Vietnam, we would have another Joe McCarthy scare on our hands, but I can do it after I'm reelected. So we had better make damned sure that I am reelected." It was very important for President Kennedy not to let the public know his withdrawal plans. In a very confusing press conference on 14 November 1963, he said the Honolulu conference that was to come, would concentrate on "how we can intensify the struggle, how we can bring Americans out of there. Now that is our object, to bring Americans out of there."

In 1963, the American author and historian, John Newman, said "Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, was determined to execute the President's intent: A genuine withdrawal from Vietnam." He also mentions that McNamara gave instructions to General Harkins to come up with a plan to "wrap things up and come home."

In 1967, the Director of State Department Intelligence, Roger Hilsman, claimed President Kennedy intended to withdraw from Vietnam. He also said Kennedy before his death had begun to implement a plan to withdraw from Vietnam.

In a review of a biography about Robert McNamara in 1993, Robert Kuttner, a reporter in the Boston Globe, wrote "with Kennedy, Robert McNamara embraced a plan to increase assistance but turn the show over to the Vietnamese, win or lose, by 1965." Deborah Shapley, an American author, wrote in her book "Promise" that McNamara had told her he and Kennedy had agreed to withdraw from Vietnam without victory.

Considering that three of the most prominent associates of the President refute the existence of a withdrawal plan, questions if there ever was one. Among these are the President’s own brothers, Robert Francis Kennedy, the Attorney General. The other two is Kennedy's special counselor and friend, Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Kennedy's first appointed official, Theodore Sorenson.

Schlesinger has different opinions of Kennedy's withdrawal plans. In his book, "A thousand days", he gives no indication of Kennedy even considering withdrawal. "A thousand days" gives a day by day review of the Kennedy Administration and the only indication of withdrawal the book gives is McNamara's statement on the withdrawal of troops by the end of 1963. Schlesinger claims Kennedy had a fear of upsetting the world balance if the United States were to withdraw. Further he writes that Kennedy in 1963 said there was a need to establish a stable and "friendly" government in South Vietnam in order for the country to maintain its independence. For the United States to go back on their promise on this issue would mean a full collapse of South Vietnam, and even Southeast Asia. "So we are going to stay there," Kennedy stated in a press conference in spring of 1963.

Sorenson seems to be quite certain on the issue of withdrawal. There was no withdrawal plan. Sorenson claimed that Kennedy felt the free world security was severely threatened if South Vietnam was lost and Southeast Asia was to fall in the hands of the communistic China. According to Sorenson Kennedy's commitment to help South Vietnam was carried out to its fullest. Kennedy steadily increased the military strength from 2000 troops in 1961 to 15 500 at the end of 1963. Kennedy had said a withdrawal from Vietnam would just make it easier for the communists, leading Sorenson to believe there was no plan.

In 1962, President Kennedy's brother, Robert, made a statement on the Vietnam issue saying "the solution lies in our winning it. This is what the President intends to do. We will remain here until we do." The Attorney General's own understanding of his brother's policies was to win the war. Therefore he fully supported President Johnson's escalation in 1965. Later on, Robert F. Kennedy changed his policies, turning to one of the most prominent critics towards Johnson's war policies.

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in November 22, 1963, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was found guilty for the murdered. It is believed that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the only one involved with the crime. There are many theories about how President Kennedy was murdered. Some of the theories include the FBI, CIA, and the mob being involved. The Warren commission said that they believe that it was solely Lee Harvey Oswald who killed President Kennedy, but there are many critics who maintain the idea, that the power of these institutions, is the one which silenced the differences theories that tried to uncover the trades hidden beyond his dead.

Most of the evidence shows that Lee Harvey Oswald could not be the only one involved. John F. Kennedy was the fourth United States President to be assassinated. Even today, there remains tremendous debate on who was responsible for the murder of Kennedy. The assassination of President Kennedy has started many different conspiracy theories about who was involved with the murder.

President Kennedy wanted to travel to Dallas, Texas to help strengthen his vote for the upcoming election and also to gain more Democratic Party members. Before Kennedy went on the trip there was some concern about a sniper being on top of a building. President Kennedy also made comments before he was killed about his safety in a convertible car. The car President Kennedy was driving in was a 1963 Lincoln Continental open top limo.

Sergeant Davis of the Dallas police department was the one who made sure the city was secure whenever any President or foreign leader came to Dallas. The secret service agent who was responsible for the planning of the Kennedy motorcade was Winston Lawson. Lawson told Sergeant Davis not to allow any police officers to follow the president’s car.

It was standard procedure for the police to secure the perimeter when any president came to Dallas. Jessy Curry who was the chief of police said that if the cops were allowed to secure the area, then the murder could have been stopped. The cops who would normally secure the area have submachine guns and rifles.

The original plan was to go from the Love Field Airport to downtown Dallas and Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was supposed to give a speech at the Dallas Trade Mart. Kennedy’s car did not have a bullet proof top, because they did not have anything invented at the time. At 12:30 President Kennedy’s limo went towards the Texas School book depository. Then the car turned right in front of the building and was only 65 feet away.

The car was going 13 miles per hour and then slowed down to 9 miles per hour. Once the car passed the building the shots rang out. A man named Abraham Zapruder was right in front of the limo when it was being shot at. Zapruder was filming as the shooting took place. Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally were both shot.

John Connally was riding in the same car as Kennedy and was sitting in the passenger seat in front of the president. Governor John Connally was in critical condition but he survived. There was also another person that was just watching the motorcade that was injured from debris when the bullet hit a curb.

Lee Harvey Oswald had been arrested for the killing a Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged for killing President Kennedy and officer J.D. Tippit. Whenever Oswald was questioned about the shooting of President Kennedy he denied everything. There was a twelve hour interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald and no recordings or notes were taken. Oswald said that he wasn’t involved and that he was just a patsy. Two days after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. Oswald was in police custody at the time of the shooting. Jack Ruby posed as a reporter who was trying to ask Oswald a question.

The gun that was used was an Italian Manlicher-Carcano rifle. The rifle was found at the Texas School Book Depository on the sixth floor. When the police officers found the gun they recorded everything. The rifle is said to be the same gun that was used in the assassination. There was a bullet on the Connally’s stretcher and it was fired from the gun that the police had found. Lee Harvey Oswald purchased the gun under the fake name of Alek James Hiddell.

President Kennedy was announced deceased at the emergency room. The surgeons at the hospital said that Kennedy had absolutely no chance for survival. Dr. George Burkley came to the hospital shortly after the president was shot and looked at the head wound and said that it was the cause of death.

A priest came to give President Kennedy his last rites. Lyndon B. Johnson who was the vice president was the next person to become president. Lyndon B. Johnson was riding in a car behind Kennedy. Lyndon B. Johnson went through the procedure to become president while he was on Air Force One.

Once Air Force One had landed, an autopsy was performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The autopsy report said that Kennedy had been shot in the head and in the shoulder. Reports of the autopsy were incorrect and did not match up. It is said that Dr. James J. Humes probably destroyed the autopsy report and notes that were taken during the autopsy. The measurements that Dr. James J. Humes took were inconsistent and not exact.

The autopsy reports were not shown to the Warren Commission. The people who handled the autopsy records did not keep track of how many pictures were taken. It is also said that the pathologists were not experienced enough to handle Kennedy’s body in the first place. Kennedy’s neck was not looked at to determine how the bullet entered and exited. After the autopsy Kennedy’s body was embalmed and was put into the white house for the public to see. The body was removed from the white house and buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

There was also no recordings or radio coverage of the assassination. All of the news crews were waiting at the trade Mart for Kennedy and not in Dealey Plaza. There was some news crews riding with the Kennedy motorcade, but they were in the very back. The only recording of the murder was from Abraham Zapruder’s camera.

Many individuals took still pictures of the shooting also. The Zapruder film shows Kennedy’s head moving forward and then backwards. The Zapruder film was shown on television, but was edited a lot. More recently, in 2003 ABC News drew Dealey Plaza in three dimensional computer models.

The government is doing a good job in preventing records of the Kennedy assassination from becoming publicly available. In 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson made the Warren Commission findings to be kept from public viewing. Johnson said that the documents cannot be seen by the public for 75 years, which would be until 2039. Covering up all of the records, leads more people to believe that there is indeed a conspiracy involved with the death of President Kennedy. Congress established the "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992".

Congress made the act so that people could see the records earlier and they also felt that there was not a need to keep the records from public eyes. The act says that any document that has not been lost of destroyed must be given to the public by 2017. Many documents have already been opened, but the majority still remains locked away. All of the original evidence and material cannot be released, because it was lost or destroyed. Some import pieces of evidence that were neglected are; the Governor of Texas’s suit being dry cleaned, the limo being cleaned, and Lee Harvey Oswald’s Marine service file being lost.

There was a paraffin test conducted on Lee Harvey Oswald’s right cheek and hands. The purpose of the test was to tell if Oswald had fired a weapon. The paraffin test came out positive, but the Warren commission said the data was inaccurate.

The first people to conduct an investigation were the FBI. The director of the FBI said that he wanted something to convince the public that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only one involved with the assassination. The FBI report took 17 days to complete and was given to the Warren Commission. The FBI assisted the Warren Commission. Both the FBI and the Warren Commission said that there were only three shots fired from the rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald had. The House Select Committee Investigated the FBI’s results.

The committee concluded that the FBI did not investigate whether or not President Kennedy was involved in a conspiracy and also that they did not give their data to other law enforcement agencies. James Hosty was an FBI agent who name appeared in Jack Ruby’s address book. The FBI made another copy of the address book and erased James Hosty’s name out of it and then gave it to the Warren Commission. Before the assassination took place, Lee Harvey Oswald went to the FBI office so that he could meet with James Hosty. Hosty was not in his office when Oswald had arrived, so Oswald left a note for him. When Oswald was murdered by Ruby, James Hosty destroyed the note by tearing it up and flushing it down the toilet.

When the Warren Commission completed their report many people questioned it and did not believe its findings. Many people have written books and articles disproving what the Warren Commission had said. In 2003 ABC News did a poll to see what the public thought about the John F. Kennedy assassination. The poll said that seventy percent of the people think that there is a plot involved with the murder of Kennedy.

Around seventy to ninety percent of the American people did not believe the Warren Commission’s findings. Even government officials that worked for the Warren Commission said that they did not completely believe the commission’s results themselves. The House Select Committee on Assassinations said that the Warren Commission and the FBI failed to investigate who else could have been with the murder. The committee also said that the main reason for the lack of information and results were due to the Warren Commission not communicating with the CIA.

CONCLUSSIONS

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a teenager who became one of the most important men in history; his life was short but intense. This essay show us the importance of Power, if you have power, you can do whatever you want even some other actions that are forbidden to humans. This is a summary of what is being told is this essay, the life of Kennedy is always related to power and selfishness.