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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" and for this reason American people must not tolerate being lied to by the establishment which they created. .
             The Warren Commission's investigation concluded that a lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot the president without an accomplice. Stretching their imaginations to far reaches, this government-sponsored commission disregarded an amazing amount of evidence and inconsistencies. What should have been one of the most thorough investigations ever conducted was unbelievably flawed, leading many to believe there could have been a conspiracy, and yet to this day, the Kennedy case is considered closed by the majority of Americans. .
             To understand why it is believed that such a conspiracy existed, one only needs to read through the pages of the Warren Report and the testimonies of various witnesses who were watching the president at Dealey Plaza on the day of his assassination or the investigation of his death in the aftermath. One of the most unfortunate and inexcusable errors in the federal investigation of the Kennedy assassination was the flawed autopsy that was preformed on him. The doctors who preformed it did not do a thorough enough job for historians to gather much new evidence of a second or third gunman. The errors in the autopsy do something more damaging to the conspirators, they implicate the U.


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