JFK, the People’s President, was murdered in cold blood on November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas. For America, history; one of those vast dividing lines. With a single blow from the international community, the air turned into one of public mourning and pain, followed by a massive outpouring of investigations on the matter.
For in the eyes of truth, the Warren Commission, after huge deliberations, declared that Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed the lone assassin. An act still shrouded in mystery, its surrounding facts and the motive for it yet unexplained, leaving historians and the public still debating it.
JFK Assassination Day
Morning of November 22, 1963. JFK was in Dallas to seek political support for his 1964 election. Riding along in the open motorcade with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife Nellie, Kennedy was attracted by the sights and cheers.
However, as the motorcade entered Dealey Plaza, the sound of gunfire erupted as the President was shot. He died in the hospital; Governor Connally was gravely injured, thus ushering in an intense wave of mourning and quest for understanding that still prevail today.
The Warren Commission Report
President Lyndon Johnson set up the Warren Commission to investigate JFK’s assassination. The commission reported in 1964 that it was Oswald who, acting alone, had carried out the assassination and was killed two days later by Jack Ruby. Yet for many, that explanation fell on deaf ears. Many say that this is not the whole story, with some even alleging the involvement of other conspirators.
History.com summarizes rather judiciously some of the work of the Warren Commission with the assertion that not all questions remain outstanding with respect to Oswald’s motives and possible accomplices.
This may complicate things a bit as far as a conclusion, for the commission also drew its share of controversy. There is a sort of speculation in public discourse; more than 60%(Gallup’s) American believes the assassination involved a conspiracy.
International Implications of JFK’s Assassination
So global is the reach of Kennedy’s assassination and the mourning-from leaders to the common people-his last sonorities speak for what would have been expected on this earth. Even nations import a veritable reminder of Kennedy by paying tribute to his memorial, thus acknowledging in such a transitive interdiction an internationalist testimony. American Diplomacy records: even Nikita Khrushchev laments Kennedy; hence the enormity of his role in international affairs during the Cold War.
Half-mast flags and candlelight vigils were moments held with mass attendance in many countries for the death of a great leader; however, this would bolster the feeling that they engaged all countries, regardless of the nations from which they came.
The assassination of JFK has been a very complicated web of continuing debates and interest. One possible reason for this is that the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone, yet a flood of many more questions came forth, and with it, a million conspiracy theories. Generations to come for many life-weary souls will surely feel the pain of this tragic event in this land and afar. An exciting and life-threatening pursuit for the truth about the murder of President Kennedy goes on in Americans and historians alike.
