Video footage posted on YouTube showed clashes between police and activists on Friday as a somber crowd gathered under rainy skies for the first official anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas.
Kennedy was shot as his motorcade was moving through Dallas on November 22, 1963.
After he was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital, his Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States and ordered a federal commission to investigate the assassination.
Headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission became known as the Warren Commission.
The Warren Commission concluded that three shots had been fired, all by a single shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Oswald had been arrested the same day that Kennedy was shot. He was charged with the murder of the president and killing a Dallas police officer approximately 45 minutes after he shot Kennedy.
Two days later on Nov. 24, 1963, as Oswald was being transferred from police headquarters to the country jail, he was shot dead by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
According to the Warren Commission, Oswald had acted alone and had fired three shots from the sixth floor of a building behind Kennedy’s Limousine.
However, a video recording of Kennedy’s assassination, taken by Abraham Zapruder, shows after Kennedy grasps for his throat, his head moves violently backwards, a reaction more typical of being shot from the front.
Moreover, other video recordings show many people, including police officers, run not towards the building where the investigation said Oswald fired from but towards a picket fence in front of Kennedy’s car.
Several people, who were linked to Kennedy’s assassination or the investigation, were violently killed. According to some counts, over 170 people involved in this case have died suspiciously.
According to private investigator Josiah Thompson, who wrote “Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination,” four shots were fired at Kennedy and they were fired by three different gunmen from three different places.
Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, many Americans still do not believe the Warren Commission’s version of this dark chapter in American history.
According to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, over 60 percent of Americans say the assassination was part of a broader plot not just a lone shooter murdering the US President.
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