On Friday, November 22nd 1963 at 12:30 P.M. the 35th president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated while he rode in an open limousine though the streets of Dallas. This event, which abruptly and severely altered the course of history, it has created more controversy than any other single event. Some haunting questions still remain. "Who did it?" "Why did they do it?" "How was it done?" "Was there a cover up" …
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…rifle. . In my view, the main reasons President Kennedy was killed were (1) He refused to further escalate American involvement in Vietnam (2) He was moving to end the Cold War (3) Mafia's outrage over his war on organized crime. Just below these reasons, I would list LBJ's lust for the presidency, J. Edgar Hoover's hatred of JFK and his desire to remain director of the FBI and Kennedy's reported intent to drastically reorganize or dismantle the CIA.