JFK REPORT FROM DENMARK

We would like to encourage all readers of this report to have one thing in mind while reading; We think that most of the material that we have examined for this report, has left us back with even more questions than when we started. Therefore we want to make it perfectly clear that we will not be held responsible for what is written in this report as we do not think that the material used is 100% reliable. This is because our mainsource is the Internet and anything there might be altered, modified or changed in some other way by who ever might desire that. It is of course unfortunate that we have to take this precaution but we do not want anyone on our backs just because of a college report. A last remark is that whenever the word "we" occur we mean us, ourselves, the authors and not the general public of America or Denmark.

"If we cannot have the truth once and for all about the government's murder of John Kennedy, if the warfare interests in our government are so powerful that they cannot be questioned about such things, then let us have an end to the pretense that this is a government of the people."
~ New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison ~

Introduction

November 22^nd 1963. Dallas, Texas. 12:30 PM. The motorcade turns from Houston Street into Elm Street. The cortege with President John F. Kennedy slows down to approximately 10 mph as it turns. Everything seems okay. No one is yelling angrily at the President although he isn't too popular in this part of the country... Someone starts throwing firecrackers. The Secret Service agents start to look a little worried. Suddenly a very loud noise is heard. It was a rifle shot! The motorcade quickly speeds up and heads straight for the Parkland Memorial Hospital. The President is missing a large piece of his brain and scull and in top of that he has a wound in the throat. The doctors couldn't find a heartbeat, but he was still trying to breathe through the hole in his neck.

At 13:00 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was pronounced dead...

On the 25^th of November 1963 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was buried.

When Kennedy was elected president it was the smallest victory ever in American politics. Kennedy won by as little as about 100,000 votes over Richard M. Nixon. He was a politician who didn't like to settle with a compromise. He fought for Negroes and it was probably the Black community that gave Kennedy the victory.

"The mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the cause of freedom around the world!"

John F. Kennedy, 1960

In his book "Profiles in Courage" from 1956 he uses John Quincy Adams from Massachusetts as a role model. Like Adams Kennedy wanted to do something for his country by becoming a politician. They both didn't like the way things were run in the Government. Quote: "�Our Government is simply a collection of dishonest opinions: If you vote for me, I'll vote for you!" Unquote. It was things like these that made Kennedy want to change the system. And he succeeded but only for a short period of time. He met a lot of resistance from a lot of different departments in the White House. Especially the departments that dealt with foreign affairs were very dishonest towards JFK. They were also very annoyed by this young punk that came in from the street and wanted to change everything. Still he kept on fighting for what he believed in.

"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy's political credo

Why did anyone want President Kennedy dead?

Here's a list of the people/organisations that we could imagine as taking part in a conspiracy against John Kennedy:

The American Military Industry Complex

As JFK was sworn in as President he promised the US population that he would work for peace and freedom all over the world. USA was already involved in the Vietnam War at the time JFK took over the presidency. American troops had been stationed in South Vietnam since 1954 when the American Army invaded Vietnam in order to stop the war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Just as Kennedy had promised he immediately started to bring peace to the world. He tried to get a regulative through in Congress that would give Kennedy the power to withdraw troops from the Vietnam scenario. This made him very unpopular with the American weapons manufacturers, Bell Helicopters and General Dynamics because this would mean gigantic losses of profit. By the start of 1963 the Vietnam War started to get really bloody once again. This meant that the Military Industry Complex had the possibility to earn even more money but they would fail if Kennedy got what he wanted.

The US Department of Defence had an annual budget of more than 190 billion dollars during wartime. This of course meant that the weapons manufacturers were interested in US involvement in a war. Then more war the more money they would earn!

Angry Southern Racists

Kennedy also wanted to make America a better place for everybody. This also meant the Afro-Americans. Ever since before the American Civil War (1860) the population in the Southern states has considered the Afro-Americans as slaves. Even though the South lost the Civil War they still considered the Negroes as lesser humans a hundred years later. If Kennedy could force the equal rights through a lot of people would get very angry. A lot of people wouldn't like to admit that they are racists but it still doesn't take very much to get an American angry if a non-Caucasian kills someone. That is why organisations like Ku Klux Klan and American Libaralists fight against everyone who isn't white. For some JFK might have been the straw that broke the camel's back�

The Mafia

Kennedy also promised that he would fight crime that was a fast growing business at that time. Of course this meant that the people who were actively involved in organised crime started to consider JFK as a new threat towards their activities. Not only the military industry thrives on war. The Mafia, especially in Chicago, had at the time a lot of money invested in tools of war and weapons. They probably still have because they make a lot of money using violence and threats

Another point could be that Kennedy's younger brother Robert Kennedy was a prosecutor. He had specialised in organised crime. He tried very hard to get rid of the organised gangs all over USA. In order to warn the American Government the Mafia could have had the brother of their biggest problem murdered. This might stop him from continuing his work.

Fidel Castro and the Oil Barons

Castro was in the beginning thought to be the man behind the murder. Kennedy had banned all trading with or on Cuba. This was done because Castro's soldiers were systematically destroying all American oilrigs, refineries and factories. This hurt the oil barons because they weren't able to negotiate with Castro. In the end the barons would lose millions of dollars and because they weren't receiving any form of compensation they couldn't cover their losses. This made the barons angry and they knew that the vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson was more aggressive towards Cuba. This must be considered as a very powerful motive.

CIA

Right from the beginning of Kennedy's presidential period he got into conflict with the CIA. Kennedy blamed them for holding out on him. He wasn't properly informed of important overseas issues such as the Cuba crisis involving the Russian nuclear missiles etc. One of the big turning points in the relationship between Kennedy and CIA was the invasion of the Bay of Pigs in 1961. CIA supported Anti-Castro soldiers that tried to invade Cuba in order to kill Castro. Kennedy took the full official responsibility of the disaster but in private he told his family and friends that the CIA forced him to do so. In fact the CIA tried to force him into sending American planes as airsupport for the Anti-Castro-soldiers that tried to invade Cuba. Kennedy refused and instead he fired Allen W. Dulles, Cabell and Bissell, the top directors of the CIA.

Satellite pictures of Cuba showed nuclear missiles. It was clear that Russia had gained permission to place the missiles on Cuba in order to prevent a US invasion of the island. Kennedy ordered battle ships to the area because more Russian missiles were en route to Cuba by ships. Things really got hot right until the ships turned back in the last moment. Kennedy was believed to have arranged a secret deal with Russian Minister of Foreign affairs Khrusjtjov. The Russians removed the missiles from Cuba and in return Kennedy promised that the American forces wouldn't invade. Some people then thought that Kennedy had sympathy for the Communists.

It was said that Kennedy tried to close down CIA because of all the pressure that they put on him. Nor did Kennedy approve of the methods used by the Agency's agents. He thought that a lot of the missions carried out by those same agents weren't always properly planned. Instead Kennedy wanted to assign all responsibility of paramilitary operations during peacetime to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In spite of Kennedy's efforts his proposal was turned down because of bureaucratic resistance on Capitol Hill.

CIA has to be considered as a very powerful opponent that can do just about everything they please. The people within the CIA think of the next employed as a brother or sister. It is so to speak a very tight net of agents, directors and office workers. They could easily have used one of their top marksmen or simply put out a contract on his head. And it would be a very easy task for them to find a scapegoat.

FBI

FBI isn't thought to be the assassin. If they were involved they probably would act more like the cleaning team, making sure that the truth isn't uncovered. FBI is responsible for the welfare of the nation and should have been aware of the threat against the president. They probably were but for some not yet known reasons they didn't do anything about it.

"To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The assassination

We have been visiting a lot of Web pages to gather as precise information as possible about this specific happening. But actually it has made us more and more confused the more pages we have visited. We depend on some of the pages to be more reliable than others though, and therefore it of course varies how much attention has been paid to the pages. All in all we believe that the assassination was made by a conspiracy and the following parts might be a bit influenced by this although we will try to consider the things with all points of views in mind. Finally a brief overview of what happened:

11.35 Air Force One lands at Love Field, Dallas, Texas. Aboard are J.F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy

11.56 The motorcade leaves Love Field. Limousine carries the President and First Lady, along with the Governor of Texas, John B. Connally and his wife. Vice president Lyndon B. Johnson and "Lady Bird" Johnson ride in the car behind.

12.29 The motorcade passes Texas School Book Depository Building leading into the Dealey Plaza on the way to lunch and a political rally.

12.30 JFK shot. Governor Connally seriously wounded. Panic breaks out in Dealey Plaza.

12.33 Lee Harvey Oswald leaves Texas School Book Depository Building.

12.38 J.F. Kennedy and Governor Connally admitted to Parkland Hospital.

13.00 J.F. Kennedy pronounced dead

13.15 Officer Tippet of the Dallas Police Force murdered by a lone gunman later said to have been Oswald.

13.50 Oswald seized after a scuffle in a Texas Theatre cinema.

The arrival

A couple of days before the arrival of President Kennedy, the motorcade route was announced in the media. The route was decided on November 18^th and was published the next day. That means that the route was known to the public three days before the actual arrival. Some people think that this was to make it easier for the assassins to plan their individual positions and that the whole thing was the CIA's work. But one also has to keep in mind that Kennedy was rather unpopular in Dallas. Therefore it might as well have been to inform his supporters about where to get a good view of their President. Another thing to keep in mind is that only one month earlier of the visit of Kennedy, another "important man" had been to Dallas. The United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was mildly assaulted during his visit there and Dallas was said to be "a hostile city". Considering this one must agree that there wasn't really much attention paid to security and protection on the day of President Kennedy's visit. Neither the police, the military nor the Secret Service was at maximum strength and able to secure a safe route for the Presidents motorcade.

Houston Street

As the motorcade turns on to Houston the next suspicions begin to occur. Some say that if there was just a single gunman he would have fired his rifle at this moment. The argument for this is that he would have the best shot here, with the target moving in an almost straight line towards him. The reason he didn't fire was that he waited for a triangular crossfire to become possible, as this would surely increase the chance of killing the President. The people that support the anti-conspiracy theories say that he did not fire because the shot on Elm Street would be optimal for a sniper, as the target is moving in a direct line and away from the shooter.

Crossfire

PART 2