Killers in Cold Blood by Ray Black

Author:Ray Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Omnipress
Published: 2011-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

John F. Kennedy

The assassination of John F. Kennedy is probably the most controversial case in the modern history of the United States. The question has frequently been asked – did Lee Harvey Oswald kill Kennedy by himself, or was he part of a larger conspiracy? There is no doubt that there were all the right ingredients for a conspiracy. It is strange that Kennedy was assassinated in front of thousands of people and while being filmed, yet the superfluity of witness evidence, from eye to lens, served only confuse matters enormously. Even the analysis of film footage was open to interpretation so that the result was a plethora of conflicting opinions that managed to muddy investigations.

Of Irish descent, John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He graduated from Harvard in 1940 and went straight into the navy. He was renowned for his bravery when, in 1943, his boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer. Despite being seriously wounded, Kennedy led the survivors through dangerous waters to safety.

After the war Kennedy became a Democratic Congressman, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. In September 1953, he married Jacqueline Bovier and two years later wrote Profiles in Courage, while convalescing following an operation on his back. For this book he won the Pulitzer Prize in history.

Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States in 1960, the youngest man ever elected to this role. Major events during his presidency include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War. However, above all Kennedy had a vision for the United States: ‘a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion’. His administration saw the start of new hope for both equality for Americans and the peace of the new world, but this was to be shortlived as his reign was truncated by an assassin’s bullet.

Kennedy chose to visit Dallas in November 1963 for three main reasons: to help raise funds for the Democratic Party campaign, to begin his quest for re-election and to mend political boundaries (the Democrats had previously lost Dallas in 1960). Following a meeting with Vice President Johnson and Governor Connally on June 5, 1963, it was announced that Kennedy would definitely visit Dallas despite early concerns about security. Adlai Stevenson, the US Ambassador to the United Nations had recently been heckled and struck by a protest sign on a recent visit.

The police were nervous and they prepared exceptionally stringent security precautions so that the demonstrations marking the Stevenson visit would not be repeated. However, for some reason Winston Lawson of the Secret Service, told the Dallas police not to assign the usual number of experienced homicide detectives to follow the president’s car. This was standard protection for any visiting dignitary and had they been in place they could possibly have prevented the shooting. However, that is all hearsay.

The planned

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