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Kennedy Assassination

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/* History */ Added Info about the Zapruder film
:''"President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1 p.m. Central Standard Time today here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound in the brain. I have no other details of the assassination."''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJP_m5mv0IU]
 
The whole assassination was filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas-based women's clothier who initially filmed the motorcade because he was excited about the arrival of President Kennedy, but this soon turned to horror when he caught the assassination on film. The Zapruder film is the most complete film of the assassination, and was studied by the Warren Commission during their research.
Lyndon Johnson, as well as the Secret Service, were concerned about security as thoughts of a conspiracy began to circulate; the Secret Service wanted Johnson to leave for the safety of Air Force One, which he did, with the body of the slain president and Mrs. Kennedy joining him less than an hour later. Still, the plane did not take off for Washington until a Texas judge had been brought aboard to do a proper swearing-in of the new president.
===Lee Harvey Oswald===
Lee Harvey Oswald was born October 18, 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His childhood included a bad stepfather, constant moving, and poor grades in the schools he was in when not being truant. He came across a pamphlet about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the spies who sold atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, and soon became enamoured in [[communism]]. He served in the [[Marine Corps]] from 1956 until 1960, earning "sharpshooter" proficiency with the M-1 rifle, and a court-martial for instigating a fight. Much of his free time was spent reading about Marxism, communism, the revolutionaries who were involved with it, and the Russian language. Nine days after he left the Marines on a hardship dischage, he was in Helsinki, Finland, about the cross into the Soviet Union and renounce his American citizenship.
 
 
 
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