The Warren Commission and the House Committee had different views concerning JFK's assassination. ... Although Lee Harvey Oswald is thought to have fired three shots from the window of the Texas Book Depository, the question of whether a fourth shot was fired by somebody else from the grassy knoll has been the subject of heated debate (Final Report 187). ... As fascinating as the debate over who killed the president: Why does the shooting 40 years ago still captivate American society? ...

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For many decades liberalism was the biggest factor in politics, and the largest force in changing America. Liberals believed in a government that was active in the nation to provide "economic prosperity, international security and social justice"(Schulman 1). Lyndon Baines Johnson "embodied the cont...

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On November 22, 1963, shots rang out in Dealey Plaza that would change our country forever. As our 35th president was killed, a country began mourning the death of one of its great visionaries, a man who believed in peace and racial equality, a man unlike any leader before him. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was one of the most tragic events in our nations history, but as horrific as the shooting itself were the lies which were told to the American people in the aftermath. We live in a country where the government was established to be "of the people, by the people, and for the people" a...

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