JFK

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and the people all over the world mourned the death of our young and inspiring President. It has been thirty years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and many people are still uncertain as to who is actually responsible for his assassination. Over the years there have been numerous theories that the CIA and the FBI were somehow linked to the assassination. Most of these theories have been disproven by other theories. The government's theory is that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald's past may answer some questions as to why he is considered to be the assassin of John Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald was born on October 18, 1939, to a lower- middle class family. Oswald's father died two months before he was born; this left Oswald to be taken care of by only his mother, Marguerite. Marguerite had a hard time dealing with the death of Lee's Father, which left her all alone to raise Lee and his two brothers, Robert Oswald and ...

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10). In the summer of 1952, Merguerite and Lee moved to New York. However, this caused problems for Lee; because New York did not allow children to skip school. He was put on probation and was evaluated by psychiatrist who said, "Vivid fantasy life, turning around topics of omnipotence." (Parshall 72) Which basically meant that Lee was in his own world and did not seem to pay much attention to the happenings in the real world. He was once asked if he preferred the company of boys or girls, to this question he responded,, "I dislike everybody." (Parshall 72). By the psychiatrist account and by his own mother's accounts, Lee was an independent loner as a child. To keep Lee from being ...

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