By Emeka Chiaghanam
It was November 22, 1963. The sun hung high over Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, glinting off the chrome of a sleek Lincoln Continental. Crowds had gathered to see their beloved president. They waved, children laughed, and the First Lady’s pink suit stood out like a rose against the gray concrete. Then, three shots cracked the air. In seconds, the president’s head snapped back. Blood sprayed. And in an instant, the world fractured.
What about the assassination.
In a simple term they told us that it was a lone gunman, a misfit, a man who
couldn’t fit in that killed the president. Lee Harvey Oswald, the Marine turned
defector, the communist sympathizer with a mail-order rifle. And that was it case
closed.
But here’s the thing about “simple” stories, they’re usually anything but.
The Magic Bullet and
Other Fairy Tales
Let’s start with the official
story’s centerpiece: the "magic bullet." This pristine, nearly
unscathed piece of metal allegedly passed through John F. Kennedy’s neck, made
a sharp right turn mid-air, burrowed through Texas Governor John Connally’s
ribs, shattered his wrist, and came to rest in his thigh, without so much as a scratch to its copper
jacket.
Even Connally, bleeding in his
wife’s lap, knew better. “No way
that bullet hit us both,” he later insisted.
And then there’s Oswald
himself. A marksman? Hardly. The man’s Marine Corps rifle scores were average at best. Yet somehow, in
under six seconds, from a shaky sixth-floor perch, he pulled off one of the
most impossible sniper feats in history, with a bolt-action rifle notorious for
jamming.
Convenient,
isn’t it? That the one man who could’ve answered questions was
himself gunned down, live on national television—by a nightclub owner with mob
ties. Jack Ruby didn’t just silence Oswald; he buried the truth in a Dallas
jail basement.
The
Witnesses Who Vanished
Ever notice how people who
saw something they shouldn’t have tend
to die young?
- Dorothy Kilgallen,
the sharp-tongued reporter who vowed to “break the JFK case wide open,” was
found dead in her apartment, ostensibly from a pill-and-booze cocktail,
though no water glass held her fingerprints. Her notes? Gone.
- George de
Mohrenschildt, Oswald’s mysterious handler, blew his
brains out the day he was scheduled to talk to investigators.
- David Ferrie,
a pilot linked to anti-Castro operatives, was found with two typed suicide
notes, despite no typewriter in his apartment.
Coincidence? The
House Select Committee on Assassinations didn’t think so. By 1979, they’d
concluded: Kennedy was likely
killed by a conspiracy. Then? The report gathered dust.
The Military-Industrial
Elephant in the Room
Ask yourself: Who stood to lose the most if JFK lived?
- The CIA,
furious over the Bay of Pigs disaster, which Kennedy refused to back with
full force.
- The Mafia,
betrayed after Bobby Kennedy’s relentless war on organized crime.
- Defense
contractors, sweating over JFK’s backchannel peace
talks with Khrushchev.
Even his own generals bristled.
Days before Dallas, Kennedy had signed an order to withdraw troops from Vietnam. The Pentagon pushed back. Three months after his death? Escalation.
Funny
how that works.
The Zapruder Film: What They
Didn’t Want You to See
That grainy, 26-second home
movie? The one Life magazine
locked away for years? It tells a damning story:
- Kennedy’s head
doesn’t just jerk back, it snaps backward and to the left. Physics says
that’s a shot from the front. Not
the Texas School Book Depository.
- Secret Service agents heard shots
from the grassy knoll. One
even sprinted toward it, yelling, “They’re shooting from the bushes!”
- The Dallas doctors who tried to save JFK
swore the throat wound was an entry point,
meaning a second shooter.
Yet the Warren Commission ignored them. Why?
The Ghosts That Won’t Stay
Buried
Decades later, the lies still
unravel:
- The CIA’s own
documents (released in 2017) admit they withheld evidence from
investigators.
- Oswald’s CIA file was 22,000 pages long—for a
“nobody.”
- The House
Committee confirmed acoustic evidence of four shots. Oswald’s
rifle couldn’t fire that fast.
So who did?
The Unanswered Question
They’ll tell you it’s
conspiracy theory. But ask yourself:
Since
when does the U.S. government, the same one that lied about Vietnam, Watergate,
and Iraq’s WMDs, get the benefit of the doubt?
Kennedy’s murder wasn’t just a
tragedy. It was a coup. A
warning. A message about what happens to leaders who defy the machinery of war
and power.
And the real cover-up? It never ended.
So the next time someone
says, “It was just a lone
gunman,” smile and ask:
“Then
why are they still hiding the files?”
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