Dealey Plaza

When we were in Texas last year, we visited Dealey Plaza, the place where President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. As I walked the plaza and visited the nearby book depository, where Lee Harvey Oswald took his shots, I thought a lot about what happened on that day. The Warren Commission indicated that Oswald acted alone, but I don’t believe that and my reasoning is simple. Oswald shot at the president’s motorcade from an elevated position and from behind the motorcade, the book depository. But the one thing that made the theory that Oswald acted alone impossible was the 8mm movie taken by Abraham Zapruder, while standing on the grassy knoll to the president’s right. That film clearly shows the impact from the headshot that killed President Kennedy. When shot, the president’s head moves back and to his left, indicating that the fatal shot came from the grassy knoll, in front and to the right of the president, and behind Abraham Zapruder. Newton’s third law of motion states, “For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction”. So for the presidents head to move back and to his left he would have had to of been shot from in front and to the right of his location at the time of impact. I do believe that Oswald, on the sixth floor of the book depository at the time, was involved in the assassination as President Kennedy was shot in the neck from an elevated position and behind the motorcade, but I don’t believe he took the fatal headshot. More than sixty years later, we still don’t know exactly what happened on that day. However, President Trump recently ordered the release of all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination, so maybe now we can find out the truth from that terrible day.