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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