Essay about The Kennedy Assination A Conspiracy

What reasons did the HSCA have in 1979 for suggesting that President Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy in 1963? In 1976, the House Select Committee on Assassinations began to reinvestigate the events at the assassination of JFK. A report was published by the committee in 1979 stating that there was a probable conspiracy surrounding Kennedy’s death, contradicting the Warren Commission’s theory. However, the HSCA could not prove that someone other than Oswald may have assassinated the president. What the HSCA could do however, was to prove that there were flaws in the evidence that the Warren Commission used to formulate their theory about Oswald being the lone assassin of JFK. A major part to the Warren Commission’s theory was†¦show more content†¦This was also backed up by the differences between the original diagnosis from the Dallas doctors and the official autopsy of JFK’s body. The Dallas doctors found that Kennedy’s throat wound was an entrance wound which meant that the Warren Commission was wrong about Oswald shooting Kennedy from behind. However, before the official autopsy, Kennedy’s body was left unattended for about twenty minutes, in which there may have been a clumsy attempt to alter JFK’s wounds to fit the Warren Commission’s theory. The official autopsy then diagnosed that the throat wound was an exit wound, fitting continently with the theory that Oswald shot JFK from behind. The Dallas doctors could just have made a mistake, however it is more probable that the Warren Commission’s theory about Oswald was wrong and they tried to cover it up by tampering with Kennedy’s wounds. Many eye witnesses at the scene of the crime were ignored by the Warren Commission, unless the witnesses’ statements supported the Warren Commission’s theory. For example, fifty-eight out of ninety witnesses heard gun shots coming from the Grassy Knoll, however the Warren Commission chose to overlook this vital evidence because it didn’t sustain the theory that Oswald shot Kennedy from the Book Depository. Source G shows witnesses’ statements that were discounted by the Warren Commission. Firstly, Source G shows that a woman who said that she was â€Å"pretty used to guns† heard four to six