JFK assassinated 47 years ago today

  On December 22nd 1963 a disgruntled and deranged communist determined to one day be famous–Lee Harvey Oswald–ascended the stairs of the  Texas School Book Depository and dubiously etched his name into the history books. As President Kennedy’s motorcade turned up Elm Street and headed into Dealy Plaza in Dallas Texas, Oswald fired a shot from the book depository,  killing the president wounding John Connally.

  As Lee Harvey Oswald tried to make his escape–probably to Mexico and then on to Cuba–he was confronted by Officer J.D. Tippet whom he also murdered before hiding in a movie theater where he was eventually captured.

  Seven months earlier Lee Harvey Oswald failed in an attempt to assassinate General Edwin Walker, believing he was successful he confessed to his wife that he had killed the general and justified it to her by comparing Walker to Hitler. The attempt proved unsuccessful because the shot he fired was deflected by the window paine he fired the shot through. Marina Oswald never reported her husband to the authorities–if she had the assassination of JFK would never have happened.

  On November 24th, 1963 Oswald was felled by a bullet fired by Jack Ruby, fueling speculation that there was actually a government conspiracy to kill the president. We will never know the full details of that day and what led Lee Harvey Oswald to commit this heinous crime because of Jack Ruby.

  November 22nd, 1963 was one of the darkest days in American history, those that did not live through that day can never fully understand what America was going through during this day. But there must have been anger, confusion, heartbreak, disbelief, and grief the likes of which had never been felt before on a national level.