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JFK’s Funeral
• Millions across America followed the funeral on television. The television audience was
particularly high, as virtually the entire nation was at home viewing the proceedings.
• Approximately one million people lined the route of the funeral procession, from the Capitol back to the White House, then to St. Matthew's
Cathedral, & finally to Arlington National Cemetery.
All work stopped for Kennedy’s funeral as America mourned its fallen leader
The Eternal Flame
After the assassination of the President, Jackie Kennedy, requested an eternal flame for her
husband’s gravesite.
She was inspired by the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in
Paris, which she had seen during a visit to France in
1961
Curse of Tippecanoe
• This angered the Shawnee chief Tecumseh and brought government soldiers and Native Americans to the brink of war. As a result, Tecumseh and his
brother organized a group of Indian tribes designed to resist white westward expansion.
• In 1811, Harrison successfully attacked Tecumseh’s village in which Harrison defeated the
Shawnee leaders Tecumseh.
• The name "Curse of Tippecanoe" derives from the 1811 battle.
• As governor of the Indiana Territory, William Harrison bribed Native Americans to cede their lands to
the U.S. government and handed out whiskey that caused alcoholism to run rampant among Indians.
The Library of Congress conducted a study in the summer of 1980 about the origin of the tale, and concluded that "although the story has been well-known for years, there are no
documented sources and no published mentions of it".
Supposedly, the Prophet set a curse against Harrison and
future White House occupants.
Elected
President Term of
death
Cause of death Date of death
1840 William Henry
Harrison
First Pneumonia 04-04-1841
1860 Abraham Lincoln
Second Assassinated 04-15-1865
1880 James A. Garfield
First Assassinated 09-19-1881
1900 William McKinley
Second Assassinated 09-14-1901
1920 Warren G. Harding
First Uncertain: Heart attack or stroke
08-02-1923
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fourth Cerebral hemorrhage 04-12-1945
1960 John F. Kennedy
First Assassinated 11-22-1963
1980 Ronald Reagan
n/a Attempted assassination - injured but not killed
Didn’t die in office
2000 George W. Bush
n/a Attempted assassination - not injured
Currently in office
The Lone Gunman Theory
Also known as the Single Bullet Theory
or Magic Bullet Theory
The theory, generally credited to Warren
Commission staffer Arlen Specter (now a U.S. Senator from PA), says that a single bullet, known as "Warren Commission Exhibit 399", caused all of the non-fatal wounds in both President
Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally. The fatal head wound to the President
was caused by another bullet.
• While waiting across the street from the Book Depository for the motorcade, Howard Brennan noticed a man at the southeast corner window
of the sixth floor of the Depository.
• Just after the President's car passed, he heard what he thought was a firecracker or an explosion. He looked up
at the window again & saw the man with a gun, aiming & taking a final shot.
• Within minutes of the assassination, Brennan described the man to the police. He later testified that Lee Harvey Oswald, who he viewed in a police lineup
on the night of the assassination, was the man he saw fire the shot.
Witnesses say…
Bonnie Ray Williams and two co-workers watching the motorcade from fifth floor windows of the Depository
heard three shots come from the floor above, and reverberations shook plaster from the ceiling onto his
head.
Governor John Connally, Mrs. Connally, and the two Secret Service agents in the presidential limousine
all testified that the shots came from the direction of the Book Depository.
Marilyn Sitzman was standing retaining wall 15 yards east of the 5-foot high picket fence on the grassy knoll. She stated that she saw no gunman firing from behind
the picket fence: "The blast of a high-powered rifle would have blown me off that wall."
Charles Hester, Emmett Hudson & Marilyn Sitzman, the only witnesses on the Grassy Knoll who gave testimony about
the direction of the shots, all said the shots came from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository.
Of the EARwitnesses, 99 believed that all the shots came from one direction, and only 5 believed they came from
two directions
Lee Harvey Oswald• Former Marine who moved to the Soviet Union and later returned• Oswald was arrested on suspicion of killing Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit• Oswald did work at the Texas School Book Depository• Ties to Communist Organizations supporting Cuba
• Used a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle in the assassination of JFK
Convicted on 3/14/1964 for the
murder of Lee Harvey Oswald on 11/24/1963, two
days after Oswald was arrested for
the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy.
Jack Ruby
He successfully appealed his conviction and sentence of death. As a date for his new trial
was being set, he became ill and died.
• A number of writers have suspected Jack Ruby of being linked to organized crime, and some have gone on to hypothesize that his
alleged links were evidence of conspiracy to kill Oswald and/or JFK.
• When Ruby was arrested immediately after the shooting, he told several witnesses that his killing of Oswald would helped the city of Dallas "redeem" itself in the eyes of the public, and that Oswald's death would spare Jackie Kennedy the ordeal of
appearing at Oswald's trial
• Other critics do not believe that he had any connections to organized crime. The Warren
Commission had said that they found he had no connections, the House Committee finds
otherwise.