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Harrison Gardner Mr. Pickett Language Arts 3rd Period 2014 March JFK Assassination Theories Around 12:30p.m. in Dallas, Texas, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was riding in a motorcade passing the Texas School Book Depository building when he was assassinated.(â€Å"Know the Knoll: Knew Angles on JFK Assassination†) Most people think that three shots were fired. Two hitting Kennedy and one hitting Governor John Connally.(â€Å"LEE HARVEY OSWALD†) Shortly after the assassination Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for killing a policeman, J. D. Tippit, for stopping him in a neighborhood. Soon after being arrested an employee from the Texas School Book Depository Building recognized Oswald which is when the police figured they had likely caught the president’s killer. When Oswald was being taken to the county jail he was shot by a nightclub owner named Jack Ruby.(â€Å"Accused JFK Assassin Is Arrested, Then Gunned down.†) For many people it was simple, Oswald was Kennedy’s killer. But if you are like most people you think Oswald did not act a lone, or maybe did not even have anything to do with the assassination. There are many theories of how, why, and who killed Kennedy, but some of them are more popular and make more sense than others. For example the grassy knoll theory which is the theory that there was a gunman on the grassy knoll, either assisting Oswald or acting alone.(â€Å"Dealey Plaza and the Grassy Knoll.†) In Oswald’s single gunman theory, Oswald was on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building with a bolt-action sniper when he fired the three shots that killed the president and injured governor Connally. The rifle Oswald used was found on the sixth floor which was a good spot for him to kill kennedy. Many people say tha... ...in real life say that the wall would have been too short for an average person to stand behind it and only have a head and torso showing. They also say it was too tall for an average person to be kneeled down behind the wall but still have a head and torso still showing. The grassy knoll theory and the theory that Oswald killed JFK are only two of the many theories about his assassination. There are many completely different theories and there are many little theories that base off of one big theory such as the badgeman theory comes off of the grassy knoll theory. Even though Kennedy was killed more than fifty years ago most people still do not think Oswald was a lone gunman. Since this event happened many years ago it is hard to gather new facts to prove the theories right or wrong. Even if Oswald was arrested for Kennedy’s murder we still may never know the truth.