In 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison dared to solve the assassination of President Kennedy. His goal was to bring the real assassins to justice. He had high-level informants in the government. He had first-hand witnesses. He had real-time video of the rifle shots that killed the president. But he confronted the most ominous opponent: The U.S. Government. He was almost destroyed in his quest to reveal the truth. Below, Miguel Simo re-opens the case. It’s been nearly sixty years, and we still don’t know what happened. According to Miguel, we lost a beloved president on Nov. 22, 1963. We also forever lost our trust in our own government.
JFK Conspiracy: Murder in Plain Sight
The only person that was suspicious about who actually killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America, was Jim Garrison. In the 1950’s the CIA began training assassins. The assassins went around the world killing the people that they thought were evil. The CIA worked for JFK and there is suspicion that they are the ones responsible for his death. In the movie JFK Jim Garrison had a meeting with ex CIA agent Mr. X. Mr. X reveals that there was a lot of planning in JFK’s murder. He talks about how the CIA operated and that there were a lot of basic security violations. Mr. X proudly boasted,”We were good.” This meant that the CIA could have orchestrated the assassination and had the means to get away with it. Nowadays many believe that Jim Garrison was right, and that the CIA were involved in the murder. The files that were finally released in 2017 showed that Lee Harvey Oswald was always being tracked by the government. For some mysterious reason they lost track of him exactly the day of JFK’s murder. President Donald Trump announced that not all of the files were going to be released, and he pushed back the release dates even further. Are we ever going to get the whole truth, or is it too dangerous for people to learn the truth?
In 1963 JFK’s term was cut short. The young president was about three years into his presidential term. He had already done and seeked what other presidents didn't. He had achieved peace with the Soviets, and had ended the cold war. That was going to look good for his next presidential campaign, so many of his enemies declared him a target. Most likely he was going to win the next election campaign. It was said by some people that he was pro- communism and that he was a weak president. The president of the United States of America was killed because his enemies wanted war, but he wanted peace.
Film director Oliver Stone doesn’t want us to forget the assassination. I wasn’t even born when the murder occured; in fact, I wasn’t even born when the movie came out. After watching the movie about 30 years after the premier and 60 years after JFK’s death. I have an idea of the mistrust Stone is talking about. On November 22, 1963 at approximately 10:30 am. JFK was in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. JFK was in a 1961 Lincoln Continental with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis. When they were passing through Dealey Plaza Kennedy got sniped, and one bullet took his life at the age of 46. Dealey Plaza is where JFK was murdered, and o one knows for sure why this happened. President JFK had many enemies, so it's hard to tell if it was his own people or someone else sent from another country. All I got from the JFK historical movie investigation is that the person who took the shot was trained really well. Oswald just took the fall for the crime, and the investigators didn’t get the picture. They figured since people from the scene where killed it was now impossible to pinpoint the truth. It also didn’t help that it was obvious that there were corrupt agents involved.
- To read Miguel's complete Film History Research Paper, please click on the following link: JFK.
- To see a reenactment of the president's murder, please watch the following clip from Oliver Stone's movie:
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