365个英语简短小故事-160. JFK Assassinate

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Every November 22, people worldwide remember and ponder the assassination¹ in 1963 of President John F. Kennedy. He was sitting in the back seat of a convertible² (the top was down) when bullets fired from a rifle tore into him and a fellow passenger.

The assassination was caught on 8mm film by Abraham Zapruder. Digital enhancement of that famous film shows part of Kennedy’s skull³ getting blown off. JFK was barely alive as the convertible sped to the nearest hospital; he died shortly after arriving there. The damage to his brain was so great that even today’s medical techniques couldn’t have saved JFK.

Conspiracy⁴ theories have persisted since the time of the assassination: the Mafia did it, the Teamsters did it, the CIA/FBI/Secret Service did it, Congress did it, the Federal Reserve did it, LBJ (the vice⁵ president) did it, the Communists did it, the Cubans who hated Castro did it, and the two guys behind the grassy⁶ knoll⁷ did it.

Conspiracy theorists do not believe that a lone⁸ gunman did it. The lone gunman was Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald didn’t get to say much in his defense⁹ except, “I’m a patsy,” implying that he knew who really did it. Two days after Oswald shot Kennedy, Jack¹⁰ Ruby¹¹ put a fatal bullet into Oswald.

The Warren Commission conducted the federal government’s official investigation¹² of JFK’s assassination. Its 27-volume report said that Oswald, an ex-Marine, acted alone in shooting JFK from a sixth floor window of a book storage building. But to this day, and probably far into the future, many people dispute this “lone gunman” theory. They believe JFK’s death was a result of a conspiracy by one or more groups of people who felt threatened or deserted¹³ by JFK. The fact that Oswald was murdered while accompanied by a dozen Dallas policemen only strengthens the suspicions of the conspiracy theorists. The Warren report, they say, is merely a government whitewash¹⁴ of the “true” facts.