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[[File:NYTkennedyslain.jpg|right|300px|thumb|''New York Times'' for November 23, 1963.]]

[[File:NYTkennedyslain.jpg|right|300px|thumb|''New York Times'' for November 23, 1963.]]

The '''Kennedy Assassination''' occured on November 22, 1963 in downtown Dallas, Texas when, on a speaking trip to a trade center, President [[John F. Kennedy]] was fatally-hit by gunfire from the sixth floor window of a nearby building. The accused assassin - [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] - would himself be gunned down just days later, ushering in a wave of conspiracy theories involving the [[Mafia]], [[Fidel Castro]], or the [[Soviet Union]] as prime suspects despite evidence pointing to Oswald acting alone.

The '''Kennedy Assassination''' occurred on November 22, 1963 in downtown Dallas, Texas when, on a speaking trip to a trade center, President [[John F. Kennedy]] was fatally-hit by gunfire from the sixth floor window of a nearby building. The accused assassin - [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] - would himself be gunned down just days later, ushering in a wave of conspiracy theories involving the [[Mafia]], [[Fidel Castro]], or the [[Soviet Union]] as prime suspects despite evidence pointing to Oswald acting alone.

==History==

==History==

===Lee Harvey Oswald===

===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.

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 enamored 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 discharge, he was in Helsinki, Finland, about the cross into the Soviet Union and renounce his American citizenship.

==References==

==References==

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiznn7id7zg Complete CBS broadcast of November 22, 1963, begining with the normal start of ''As The World Turns'']

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiznn7id7zg Complete CBS broadcast of November 22, 1963, beginning with the normal start of ''As The World Turns'']

*[http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=gray%20whale%20fws&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#q=kennedy+assassination&hl=en&view=2&emb=0 BBC production: ''The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy'' (2004)]

*[http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=gray%20whale%20fws&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#q=kennedy+assassination&hl=en&view=2&emb=0 BBC production: ''The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy'' (2004)]