John F Kennedy Assassination

(pg 118).” In this moment that Louie and the crew members crash, Louie is drowning but eventually makes it up to shore. He finds his friend Phil and the tail gunner, Mac and they all live the on rafts. While in the rafts, they have to struggle when Mac has also eaten all their chocolate and all their water is done. However, Louie shows his endurance throughout their lives stranded in the sea.

Have you ever wondered what happened to the “best president to ever live?” John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald, although there are many conspiracy theories not many believe it was Oswald. JFK was shot, and killed near downtown Dallas, texas close to Dealey plaza. The reason he died is also unknown due to the Oswald giving no information. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was unjust because he established the peace corps, and donated all his presidential yearly salary to charity; however many people believe JFK was the reason the nuclear war with russia almost started.

He was born in a log cabin near the town of Detroit. He was the son of a cavalryman under general Joseph Wheeler. John entered vanderbilt university at age 18,but only stayed there for one semester. He was the thirty-second vice-president of the united states. He was the most powerful man in congress when he chose to join franklin Delano.

The bullet from the rifle went into tho the back of Kennedy’s neck, causing his windpipe to tear, and the bullet exited his throat. If there was no explosion in the back of the motorcade, Kennedy would have survived. It was not long after Lyndon announced John F. Kennedy’s death to the shocked Americans. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the new President taking over the United States (Kaye,1988). While Johnson was President, he declared a National war that was based on poverty and also witnessed the Civil Rights bill become a law in 1965.

We probably all know what happened to Kennedy. The press and C.I.A place Lee Harvey Oswald for the blame. I don’t think he was the only one involved. First,we need to talk about the bullet.

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an important American figure in the time he was alive and in his presidency. However, it all came to a very violent end. The President was going from state to state trying to get people to vote for him in the next election. He was at a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. At around 12:30 in the afternoon, gunshots came from behind the cars and struck the president in the back of the head (“JFK Assassination”).

Mrs. Kennedy rarely went with her husband on political outings. Her and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife were also riding in the convertible along with JFK. As the convertible passed Texas Book Depository Building at 12:30 P.M., Lee Harvey

This to many conspirators shows a downward trend in his shooting ability. Also Oswald's rifle was sub par and many conspirators believe his gun could not have performed as well as it was reported. In addition, eyewitnesses such as Nellie Connally (who was sitting in the presidential vehicle), stated that there were four shots fired and the one shot that hit her husband, Governor Connally (who was sitting in front of President Kennedy), was a different bullet then the one which penetrated JFK. Many also bring into account the angle each shot came from. With the snipers nest being behind Kennedy and to the left, the fatal shot to his head would have forced his head forwards and to the right; but in reality his head went back and to the left.

(Cawley 86) After winning this office position, Kennedy started thinking about running for a nation position because at the National Democratic Convention Kennedy’s name was nominated for Vice President of the United States. Ultimately, he lost the nomination by second place but this close loss encourages President Kennedy to run for the Presidency. (Cawley 86) He ran and won the presidency in 1960 only to lead to his assassination two years later in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1962. (Cawley

John F Kennedy was named after Rose's father John F Fitzgerald the Boston mayor as a baby/ kid John Kennedy suffered from a lot of diseases including Measles, Chickenpox and whooping cough. On February 20, 1920, when John F Kennedy was almost 3 JFK became sick with a fever called Scarlet Fever( a bacterial illness that develops is some people that have strep throat Scarlet Fever is highly cottages and life-threatening

My grandmother’s memory of this day includes her entire town having off from school and work, so that they could watch the funeral. One event that stood out most to my grandma during the funeral was how Kennedy’s kids and wife were handling the loss of this important person in their life. The kids were very young when this event happened and they were most likely very scared of what was going to happen next. Many people still visit Kennedy’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery located in Washington

His siblings were raised to both physically and academically super competitive versus the average youth of the day. JFK’s father was a very wealthy and controversial politician as his large fortune had come from both legal investments and illegal bootlegging. While his father served as an ambassador to England, JFK served as his father’s political and personal secretary where he learned an incredible amount of diplomacy and statesmanship. JFK graduated from Harvard before WW II and joined the Navy as a PT boat commander in the South Pacific where in 1943,

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. John, also known by “JFK” or “Jack” was the 35th President of the US. Before his presidency Kennedy racked up political experience with serving time in Congress. Kennedy would serve in both the House of Representatives and the US Senate. Before that Kennedy enlisted in the Navy just before the second world war.

While on the raft, Louie held himself together trying to calm the men, “Louie reassured [Mac] that the squadron would come for them, that they were likely to be found that night…” (Hillenbrand, 2010, P. 128). Also, Hillenbrand purposefully paces the reading slowly while he is on the raft to give the reader a small glimpse of the effort that it took for him to keep sane. “The coolness of the ocean beckoned and couldn’t be answered, for the sharks circled. One shark, six or eight feet long, stalked the rafts without rest, day and night.

Although the guys insisted there were no planes available, the lieutenant had them take the B-24 Green Hornet. “There was only one ship, the Green Hornet,” “We were very reluctant, but Phillips finally gave in for the rescue mission”( Hillenbrand 96). After taking flight, the plane began to experience engine problems and began to go down. The men prepared for crash landing into the Pacific Ocean. Louie, Phil and Mac survived the crash, but were stranded on a raft.