The biography Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy written by Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer is a very informative book. ... I don't recommend this book for anyone to read! ... So being interested in the beginning of the book made me impelled to read the rest, but as I read on I wanted to throw the book away. On the other hand I do recommend this book to write a book report on, there is a lot of information to get good material, but as far as reading for fun you should set this book down and leave it in the library. I did enjoy writing the report and I learned a lot about Jacqueline and her steppin...

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Miss Mercer wrote out a full report on what she saw and gave it to the Warren Commission, however, none of it was spoken of or even mentioned in the Warren Commission's Report. ... After the shooting, the rifle was found on the sixth floor of the Book Depository and was assumed to be Oswald's gun. ... One week before the shooting, a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's drove Oswald to the Book Depository. ... The day of the shooting, a brown paper bag was said to have been found on the sixth floor of the Book Depository. ... This evidence, however, was not mentioned in the commission&#...

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Witnesses at the scene of the assassination claimed they had seen shots being fired from behind a wooden fence on the Grassy Knoll and from the Texas School Book Depository. ... The police soon found out that Oswald worked at the Texas Book Depository. ... Oswald's hand prints were found on the book cartons and the brown paper bag. ... He immediately set up a commission to "ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late President John F. ... The Warren Commission reported to President Johnson ten months later. ...

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JFK The Assassination of John F. Kennedy For the American people, John F. Kennedy was the bright future. He was a young man that they was as holding the torch for this country. When he was elected, he brought youth and a relaing calm to the White House for the first time in our nation's history. ...

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The shooting of Kennedy in the neck is impossible from such an angle from the 6th floor of the book depository. ... When detectives and policemen went to search the School Book Depository they found a sniper's nest. ... The rifle was found at the other end of the building hidden in between two piles of book. ... "I though the shot had come from the garden directly behind me I don't recall looking towards the Texas School Book Depository. ... Officer Smith drew his pistol and went past the Book Depository and directly down the slope towards the grassy knoll area. ...

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While recovering, he wrote a book which would go on to earn him a Pulitzer Prize. The book, Profiles in Courage, is a study of several prominent American political leaders. ... In the book, a group of lawyers and congressmen are hired to reinvestigate the assassination. ... Ferrie's library card was also reported to be in Oswald's wallet at the time of his arrest. ...

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The Warren Commission also stated in the final report that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the three shots from the book depository, hitting his targets in less than eight seconds. ... Kennedy, President of the New Frontier, the report characterized Oswald as a "crazed loner who acted alone." ...

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In this report I will compare and contrast three of the theories that conflict with the official Warren Commission account of the assassination. ... The Warren commission, which was given unrestricted investigating powers, was directed to look at all the evidence and give a complete report of the assassination to the American people. ... The report maintained that Lee Harvey Oswall, acting alone and without accomplices, shot and killed the President and wounded Texas Governor John Connally from the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository Building in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. ...

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In addition, they reported that Oswald acted alone in the assassination, as there was no evidence found of a conspiracy involving anyone else. Also, concluded was that only three bullets were fired during the assassination and that they were all fired from the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository by a rifle owned by Oswald. ... On October 15, 1963, Oswald took a menial job at the Texas School Book Depository. The Warren Report stated that Oswald went through life in a continuous state of anger. ...

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As the Presidents open top motorcade traveled down past The Texas School Book Depository shots were fired, the President was killed. ... As the Presidents open top motorcade traveled down past The Texas School Book Depository shots were fired, the President was killed. ... This causes people to believe that Oswald was desperate to find a place in history (Warren Commission: Report (1964), n.p.)....

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Lee Harvey Oswald shot the president from the sixth-floor window in the Texas School Book Depository. ... According to Parmet, "As early as December 2, 1963 the United States Information Agency reported the widespread belief that the assassination resulted from a conspiracy. ...

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Nearly the entire staff of the Warren Commission, authors of an official report done by the government displaying the conclusions of the Kennedy Assassination, was comprised of ex-CIA agents. ... In that position it would be surrounded on three sides by the Dealey Plaza, the Texas School book depository, and the grassy knoll to the north of Elm Street, an ideal position for multiple gunmen. ... Furthermore, dozens of credible witnesses reported hearing gunshots coming from the grassy knoll, which the commission concluded no shots had come from. ... He also later admitted that he found a fou...

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The motorcade was supposed to take a relatively strait course through Dealey Plaza without passing by the Book Depository. ... This exposed JFK to snipers positioned at the Book Depository, "Grassy Knoll" and the Dal-Tex building. ... Robert Hughes captured movement from the sixth floor corner window of the Book Depository and the window next to it (Belzer 17). ... Other evidence indicated that police officers on the scene turned not toward the Book Depository, but toward Zapruder's position neat the grassy knoll. ...

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He then expanded that thesis into a best-selling book, Why England Slept (1940). ... According to some reports, both Kennedy and the first lady became heavily dependent on these injections through weekly use. ... " Widowed by Onassis, the former first lady returned to the public eye in the mid-1970s as a high-profile book editor, and she remained among the most admired women in the United States until her death in 1994. ...

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Instead of making a movie reporting what the journalists discovered, All the President's Men delivers an interesting account of "how they discovered the information on Watergate" (Toplin, 181, 183). ... Oliver Stone made plans for the movie J.F.K. after reading Jim Garrison's book, On the Trail of an Assassin. ... When the Garrison Report was released, it was also revealed that he had bugged potential witnesses" phone lines and attempted to tape a private conversation among three N.B.C. news reporters. ... Bernstein had a tendency to go on Ross-4 gut instinct, while Woodward te...

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While rounding a corner near the Texas School Book Depository, a shot rang out, and struck the President in the neck. ... The government authorized an extensive investigation of the assassination and through the "Warren Commission" report issued in September 1964, it was concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of the President. ... The New York Times, the first major newspaper to publish an article about the shooting in Dallas, reported in their afternoon paper that President Kennedy was shot and killed while in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. ...

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