John Fitzgerald Kennedy John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of United States, a war hero and great achiever of the history, was assassinated on 22nd November, 1963 on his trip to Texas. He was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald who was supposed to be the lone assassin. A number of conspiracies exist in order to completely investigate the cause and benefactor of the assassin which are discussed in detail in this paper.

Conspiracy and Assassination

Cuban Conspiracy

Inefficiency of Warren Committee

Special Committee

The Role of Castro

The Soviet Government

The Role of Mafia

Lee Harvey Oswald

Public Perspective

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

John F. Kennedy, who was also known as JFK, was born in May 29, 1917 in the city of Brooklyn. JFK provided his services in the U.S. Navy from the year 1941 to 1944 and served in World War II at the South-Pacific. John F. Kennedy represented the remarkable leadership and courage when his vessel was collided and he made his contribution in order to save the life of his crew. After getting released from the U.S. Navy duty, Kennedy represented Massachusetts-District and moved in the Congress in 1947 by winning his nomination in general election and appeared to attract the attention due to his success in early age. He earned his candidature for the nomination of President in 1960 and became the second youngest president of United States. He was determined for the continuous progression of America in order to "eliminate the exceeded ratio of poverty and upheld for the battle that was going on in all over the world in pursuit of communism."[footnoteRef:2] The objectives set by him with respect to the "Apollo project were achieved and he played a significant role in order to terminate the cold war."[footnoteRef:3] [2: Richard Reeves, President Kennedy: Profile of Power (Simon and Schuster, 1994),10.] [3: Reeves, President Kennedy: Profile of Power,17. ]

Conspiracy and Assassination

The conspiracy made with respect to the benefit or forfeit seem to be productive in nature because they often meet their objective especially when the objective is far much important to achieve. President Kennedy was on a trip in Texas on November 22nd, 1963 where he was supposed to "neutralize the political conditions among the two democratic-parties consisting of Liberals which was led by Ralph Yarborough and the Conservative party which was led by John Connally, however, during the trip of Texas the President addressed in San-Antonio, Forth-Worth and Austin."[footnoteRef:4] The president was on his "presidential ride in Dallas with his wife and Connally and when the ride was crossing over by the downtown at the central time of half past twelve; three shots were fired and out of which one hit Connally in his torso while the two shots struck John F. Kennedy in his head and neck."[footnoteRef:5]The assassination video confirmed the "exact happening of the unfortunate event."[footnoteRef:6]The president was taken for the emergency treatment in Parkland Hospital but was confirmed to be dead at the time of 1:00 PM. The police suspected Lee H. Oswald to fire the shots and assassinate the president but the charge was denied by the suspect, who was later found dead on November, 24th. The Chief Justice made his conclusion that Lee H. Oswald was working alone in the assassination of the president. However, the chief justice's conclusion was found to be disputable and the assassination of Kennedy was believed to be the result of a conspiracy and number of conspiracy theories has been presented till now in order to analyze and reinvestigate the assassination. [4: MichealSchuyler,"The bitter harvest: Lyndon B. Johnson and the assassination of John F. Kennedy," Journal of American Culture 8, no. 3 (1985): 101.] [5: Ibid., 3.] [6: VagnesOyvind and Zaprudered, "The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture." Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, (2011): 211.]

The current study is aimed to present the theories that have been proposed in order to answer the cause and benefactor of Kennedy's assassination. The conspiracy theories have been discussed with respect to the in-depth analysis and assumptions.

Cuban Conspiracy

The Cuban conspiracy started in 1963 when the council of national security activated "the disparaging strategy against the Havana-Government."[footnoteRef:7] The newly forged contract took place between CIA and Cuban-official, who was named as Rolando Cubelas aka ALMASH, by which the proposition for the assassination of Castro was assured. The word Castro can refer to the inside job that is required to be taken care of and the proposition warned that the U.S. leaders who are persistent to eradicate the leaders of Cuba should not consider themselves safe because the Cuban-leaders will ensure their insecurity but the...

In October 29th, the meeting between ALMASH and the head of the agency Desmond Fitzgerald took place in which the agent characterized himself as Kennedy's Attorney and ensured ALMASH that the coup proposed with respect to the Cubans is held back and further on the day of the assassination of Kennedy; the meeting reoccurred in order to assure the Cubans that they will be provided with the armory by the U.S. And the deal was made. Kennedy's assassination was "difficult to be backed by the fact that Oswald was working alone."[footnoteRef:8] The Deputy-Attorney-General Katzenbach profoundly declared that the public should be made to believe about Oswald's accusations but again, the notion was not sighted in order to refrain from the disturbing political condition between the Soviet-Union and U.S. Moreover, the "CIA's contribution was not adequate enough to carry out the investigation due to the positioning of incumbents who did not know the ground realities about the Cubans and ALMASH."[footnoteRef:9] There also exists the possibility that security agents of the "Cuba might have seriously taken Castro's threat and attempted to assassinate the president for their own safeguard."[footnoteRef:10] [7: David R.Wrone, "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: An Annotated Bibliography." The Wisconsin Magazine of History (1972): 23.] [8: DonaldSchulz,"Kennedy and the Cuban Connection." Foreign Policy 26.(1977): 59.] [9: Donald, "Kennedy and the Cuban Connection."Foreign Policy 26. (1977): 61.] [10: Max Holland, "After Thirty Years: Making Sense of the Assassination." Reviews in American History 22 (1994): 206.]
Inefficiency of Warren Committee

The Warren Commission which was established for the investigation of Kennedy's assassination was not provided with enough evidences and connections to relate the Cubans with the assassination of the president and the "Warren Commission also lacked the knowledge about the CIA activities with respect to the Cubans."[footnoteRef:11] Moreover, the extent of the bureaucracy within the department can be visualized by the fact that "the investigators of the assassination including the CIA-Director did not possess the knowledge of the ALMASH-operation and, the CIA personnel who know about this operation kept the ALMASH information from the Warren Committee in order to avoid the embarrassment and for the sake of the operation's secrecy."[footnoteRef:12] Furthermore, some of the personnel could not find any connection between the ALMASH and the assassination which kept this issue apart from the investigation. The Warren Committee continued to draw connections with the inclusive part of the Cuban in the assassination of the president but the CIA also kept the information about the Cuban-activities and did not provide any information that could be helpful in the investigation but it was also the profound responsibility of the Warren Committee to ask for the related information and in this way the committee failed to operate at its optimum level. The commission also consisted of the former CIA-Chief Allen Dulles, who possessed the knowledge about Castro but it does not seem that the information related to Castro was ever shared with the members of the warren committee[footnoteRef:13]. [11: David R. Wrone, "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: An Annotated Bibliography." The Wisconsin Magazine of History (1972): 27.] [12: Ibid., 10.] [13: David R.Wrone, "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: An Annotated Bibliography." The Wisconsin Magazine of History (1972): 23.]

Special Committee

The special committee was formed which consisted of 12 members who were elected by the House-of-Representatives by September 17th of the following year in order to conduct an in-depth analysis of Kennedy's assassination and investigate the operation. The investigations by this committee was started over from a couple of months ago of the assassination "when Castro; decided to agree with the terms proposed by U.S. In which Castro was provided with domestic and financial support."[footnoteRef:14] The Soviet economy was facing hardships due to the missile-crisis and needed the aid in trade and technological advancements so that their economy could grow. Therefore, Castro and Soviets needed to keep their peace offerings in order to be provided with financial aid by the U.S. The intelligence department was provided with the information by the following month that Castro was unhappy about the terms that U.S. have made with Cuba and wanted to back out from the agreement but it was also determined that Castro also wanted to be accommodated in the U.S. The information was shared with the president and a "discrete meeting with the Cubans was decided in order to discuss the various aspects of the negotiations."[footnoteRef:15] Kennedy also made his attempts "to remove the memory related to Bay-of-Pigs from Castro as the agenda…