The mystery behind why John F Kennedy was assassinated

New Delhi: John F Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States was assassinated on November 22, 1963.Americans will pause to observe the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death on 22nd November 2013.The assassination took place in Dallas, Texas. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings had put together a gathering at Dealey Plaza to commemorate the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination.JFK was a young and charismatic president, with a stylishly Vogue wife. He was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald.The Warren Commission was set up a week later to officially examine the motives and circumstances surrounding the assassination.The following year in September, it release an 888-page report with 26 volumes of supporting material.Later in 1976 The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established to investigate the assassinations, 13 years after the killing. The mystery as to why Oswald shot Kennedy has been the subject of official inquiries and countless films, books, and newspaper and magazine articles over the past 50 years. Here are some facts relating to the assassination: 1. Kennedy was the fourth US president to be assassinated. 2.Kenndy was shot in the head on live television,. This was immediately followed by the killing of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live television.He was the only president shot dead on live television. 3.The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that John F. Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy based on the recording of the gunshots fired in Dealey Plaza, captured over a police radio. 4.The inquiry on Assassination fuelled theories of a second gunman and a wider conspiracy. 5.Historian says Oswald's intended target was Governor Connally, not President Kennedy. 6. According to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, 4 gunshots were fired, two of them occurring within ½ a second of each other, too close to be fired by one man. 7.A graphic home movie footage of the assassination showed that the first bullet fired by Oswald was deflected by a street sign. 8.Warren Commission quickly tried to dismiss the audio record of the gunshots by claiming that the recording was actually of gunshots in another part of the city, and confused for Dealey Plaza shots because of a timing error.