On April 17, 1961, a group of CIA sponsored Cuban exiles attempted a hostile takeover of Fidel Castro's Cuba. The operation was code named "Operation Zapata." The plot failed. The President at the time, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, promised vital air support to the troops but withdrew it in the 11th hour. The withdrawal resulted in the death of thousands of men and caused great humiliation to the CIA. What the CIA wanted more than anything was to get revenge for what the President had done to them (Norton).

"The Dallas motorcade, it was hoped, would evoke a demonstration of the President's personal popularity in a city which he had lost in the 1960 election" (Warren 1). At the intersection of Houston and Elm Streets

Several eyewitnesses in front of the building reported that they saw a rifle being fired from the southeast corner window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. One eyewitness, Howard L. Brennan, had been watching the parade from a point on Elm Street directly opposite and facing the building. He promptly told a policeman that he had seen a slender man, about 5 feet 10 inches, in his early thirties, take deliberate aim from the sixth-floor corner window and fire a rifle in the direction of the President's car (Warren 5). This mysterious man would be later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald. The police detained him approximately forty-five minutes after the shooting. Oswald liked being alone and reading. As a part of his Marine training he took an intelligence test. The results of the test showed that he had an above average intelligence. From these characteristics the government assessed that he would fit the personality of an assassin (Duffy).

It is very unlikely that three people would try to assassinate the President on the same day, at the same spot. The CIA had an integral part in coordinating and recruiting the members for the assassination, and it was successful. John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination was not due to a lone gunman with radical ideas, but rather the work of a right wing government conspiracy.

Many people to this day will testify that they saw smoke coming from the grassy knoll. They believe this came from a second gunman contracted by t

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