WhiteHouseDiary

//From A White House Diary - Lady Bird Johnson//

Page 674.

Read the selection, answer the questions on page 679, and email your typed response to me at perellid@bangorsd.org.

Wiki Question:

Shortly after President Kennedy's assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, a supporter of Communisty Cuba, was arrested for the crime. Two days later, during a transfer between jails, Oswald was fatally shot by a nightclub owner named Jack Ruby, who soon thereafter died of cancer. Neither man lived to stand trial.

Newly sworn-in President Johnson immediately ordered a special investigation into the assassination. The investigating committee was headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and included future president Gerald Ford among its members. In September 1964, the committee reported to Johnson that it had found no evidence of a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy, nor any evidence to connect Oswald to Ruby.

Perhaps because Oswald was never put on trial, some peopl ehave refused o accept the conclusions in the report. Conspiracy theories continue to be advanced. However, no person has ever confessd to involvement in such a conspiracy, nor has any other hard evidence contradicted the Warren Commission's conclusions.

Read through the following site, and then discuss your feelings with your fellow classmates. Was this a conspiracy or not? Why? Why now?

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