Persuasive Speech

The JFK Assassination(Conspiracy?)

Specific Goal: Explain to the audience the inconsistencies the warren report found and try to show that there may have been more than one shooter.

Introduction

It was the conclusion of the Warren Commission that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only shooter in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 who killed President John F. Kennedy.

Thesis Statement: From examination of the Zapruder Film and the Warren Report, both are inconsistent with each other and proves there may have been a second shooter.

Body
I. Explanation of the Single (Magic) Bullet Theory that the Warren Commision (Earl Warren, Chief Justice at the time).
a. The magic bullet enters the President's back, headed downward at an angle of 17 degrees. It then moves upward in order to leave Kennedy's body from the front of his neck (wound number two) where it waits 1.6 seconds, turns right and continues into Connally's body at the rear of his right armpit (wound number three). Then, the bullet heads downward at an angle of 27 degrees, shattering Connally's fifth rib and leaving from the right side of his chest (wounds four and five.) The bullet continues downward and then enters Connally's right wrist (wound number six) shattering the radius bone. It then enters his left thigh (wound number seven) from which it later falls out and is found in almost "pristine" condition on a stretcher in a corridor of Parkland Hospital
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II. The Parade Route.
a. If there was only 1 shooter in Dealey Plaza that day, Houston would have been the logical choice, since it was in a straight line from the Texas Book Depository. If Oswald would have missed the first shot he would have enough time to re-aim and then fire again.
b. Instead the shooters waited for him to get onto Elm Street and put the President into a Triangulation and made sure one of them would