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October 18, 1939 Lee Harvey Oswald was born - the only official suspect in the murder of US President John F. Kennedy. Chronicle of events and major versions of the crime in the photos.





John F. Kennedy was fatally shot November 22, 1963, when together with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade drove on Elm Street during an official visit to Dallas. "John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, has died at the age of 46 years" - said while on the front page of The New York Herald Tribune. Describing his visit to Dallas, journalists wrote: "Mr. Kennedy greeted the enthusiastic residents, despite predictions that in Dallas - this citadel right republicanism - the President will be given the cold shoulder»
Career of John Kennedy began in 1946. Selected members of the US House of Representatives Democrat Kennedy then elected to three terms in the period from 1947 to 1953. In 1957, he was succeeded by the Senate committee on labor and public welfare on the Foreign Affairs Committee. July 13, 1960 he was nominated by the Democrats for the US presidency. November 8, 1960, ahead of Richard Nixon, Kennedy was the youngest president in American history, and the first president of a Catholic



Kennedy clan as if pursued by bad luck. Members of this family rarely die a natural death. John F. Kennedy (left), died of wounds in the head in Dallas, his brother Robert Kennedy (center) was shot dead in 1968, and Ted Kennedy (right) became the only refutation "Kennedy curse" before they reach 77 years of age. He died of a brain tumor, but his life was marred by scandals



Jacqueline and John Kennedy met in May 1952 at a dinner party, a year later, they announced their engagement. During a trip to Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated, Jacqueline was beside him. The first lady did not even realize that her husband was shot - the sound of a shot she took of the exhaust of the motorcycle. The wounded president was taken to Parkland Hospital. Jacqueline tried to get into the operating room and said the president's doctor: "He was shot in front of me. I all in his blood. What could be worse ?! I want to be there when he dies. " From soothing she refused. The doctor still let her to her husband, saying: "This is - its right, it's - her prerogative»



After John F. Kennedy died, Jacqueline refused to remove a blood-stained pink suit. There she stood beside Lyndon Johnson, who took the oath of office as president on board the aircraft, which was to take the body of the murdered Kennedy to Washington. First lady explained it this way: "I want everyone to see what they did to John»



During the investigation into the assassination of President took the FBI led by Edward Hoover and the Warren Commission (Chairman of the US Supreme Court). The results of the investigation of the Warren Commission were published in September 1964. As for the FBI investigation, a special committee of Congress, engaged in reexamining the findings in 1979, came to the conclusion that, in the part that actually touches the assassination of the president, the investigators worked perfectly well, but not enough attention is given to clarify the motives of the crime and the alleged plot against Kennedy



The Warren Commission concluded the following: Lee Harvey Oswald November 22, 1963 5, 6 seconds made three shots into the car the president from the sixth floor of the book store in Dallas, Texas, where he worked. As a result of the shots, President Kennedy was assassinated, Texas Governor Connally was wounded seriously, and one of the passers - easily. After that Oswald killed the local police. The Commission agreed that Oswald "acted alone and without anyone's advice or help»



Former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald (October 1959 to June 1962 he lived in the Soviet Union), was arrested on suspicion of murdering a police officer, which occurred 40 minutes after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The defendant did not admit his guilt. Two days later, he decided to move to the district tyurmuDallasa. This process was broadcast live. At 11:21 nightclub owner Jack Ruby in Dallas came out of the crowd and shot Oswald in the abdomen. Two hours later, Oswald died in the same hospital as the Kennedy



The Warren Commission was unable to establish the motives that drove Oswald (pictured srazuzhe after shooting him Jack Ruby): "It is clear that Oswald was predetermined hostility to his environment. He seems to have failed to establish a serious relationship with other people. Finding Oswald what he considered an ideal society was doomed from the start. He sought for himself a place in history - as a "great man", which would be recognized in its own time. Commitment to Marxism and communism appears to have been another important factor in his motivation. This and many other factors could shape the character of Lee Harvey Oswald, and there was a man capable of the assassination of President Kennedy »



The controversy over the fact who killed John F. Kennedy, has continued until now. Among the suspects, Fidel Castro, the Mafia, the CIA, J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Secret Service, and many others. Most Americans do not believe in the conclusions of the Warren Commission, investigates crimes and accused former US Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. The other day in an interview with NBC disputes upheld and Secretary SShADzhon Kerry: "I have to this day remain serious doubts that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone»



There is a theory according to which the assassination of Kennedy could be his successor as president, vice president, Lyndon Johnson. As motive supporters version called not only the desire for power, but self-preservation instinct that moved Johnson. The fact that the vice president was suspected of corruption. As stated in 2002, his mistress Madeleine Brown, "if Kennedy was not killed that day, that Lyndon Johnson likely would have gone to prison." The fact that the president was killed in Dallas, too casually. Lyndon Johnson was born in Texas and the Dallas police controlled, which could help him to hide part of the evidence. About this version is not only stated Ms. Brown, but also Richard Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy herself



According to another version, the death of John F. Kennedy was a tragic accident, and the killer - George Hickey, Secret Service agent guarding the president, his family and senior officials of the United States, which on the day of the assassination of Kennedy was riding behind the limousine. After the first shot, which really made Oswald, Hickey, trying to protect the president, returned fire. That Hickey bullet fired from a semi-automatic rifle AR-15 hit in the neck with the president, who was riding in front of him. Proponents of this version argue that the White House knew the truth, but in order to avoid scandal, all the evidence had been destroyed, and the case was hushed up by order of Robert Kennedy



The theory that Kennedy was assassinated on the orders of the American Mafia, also exists. Proponents of this version think that the murder are godfathers Carlos Marcello, Santo Traficante and Sam Dzhiankana. The main reason - a war that John Kennedy announced the US mafia



Funeral president held November 25, 1963. Their organization is engaged personally Jacqueline Kennedy. When the coffin arrived in Washington, she took off her wedding ring, put his wife's hand and said assistant Ken O'Donnell: "This ability is now nothing»



Say goodbye to John F. Kennedy came more than 800 thousand. People. At the head of the procession walked Jacqueline Kennedy and the president's brother Robert and Edward. Children riding in the presidential limousine behind. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. When the coffin was lowered into the ground, Jacqueline lit the eternal flame at the grave. The whole ceremony was broadcast three national channels



Doubts about the involvement in the killing Kennedy and supported by the problem of "magic bullet". The fact that the same bullet, according to the findings of the Commission, hit in the neck Kennedy changed the trajectory and the wounded man sitting in front of Senator Connally. According to experts at Oswald did not have time to do more than three shots. Thus, to explain the history of the "magic bullet" could only having one more arrow (that converges with the theory of involvement in the murder of a security guard George Hickey)



The question of who killed Kennedy, for 50 years, gives food for writers, artists, musicians and filmmakers. One of the first was a book by William Manchester. Write to author offered her a widow Jacqueline president. All the royalties from the book - $ 5 million - went to the library Kennedy. Book sensation of the year was Stephen King's novel "11/22/63," about how things have turned out would be if the unknown hero was able to stop Lee Harvey Oswald



No event in American history has so often dramatized as the murder of the 35th president. In January 2014 in rolling out the "Parkland", named in honor of the hospital, where he died Kennedy, and two days later, and his murderer Oswald (pictured - stills)



Only this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination in Dallas, the 35th president SShADzhona Fitzgerald Kennedy Publishing Skyhorse Publishing has published 25 books on crime. Photographed many documentaries and feature films, trying to find the answer to one question: who killed JFK.

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