The United States President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a lone gunman lee Harvey Oswald, contrary to what a number of people have been led to believe. There is enough evidence that supports this lone gunman theory. This argument has also been corroborated and supported by various other eyewitnesses who testified in the Warren Commission. A number of people have confirmed and admitted witnessing Lee Harvey Oswald fire the shots emphasizing that the shots were fired from Texas School Book Depository. This paper shall focus its attention on the Lone Gunman theory and will seek to bring together the witness testimonies and evidence that seeks to support these arguments. It will also look at the opposing arguments, at their strengths and their shortcomings.

Although the conspiracy theory proponents and witnesses may sound convincing, the presence of credible witnesses and evidences against it flatly waters down these arguments. Howard Brenan is one such eyewitness who admitted to seeing Oswald on one of the upper floors of the Texas School Book depository. He was standing at the turn of the Houston Street keenly watching as the Presidential motorcade passed by leisurely. From his angle, he had a clear unblocked view of the depository building from where coincidentally Oswald was shooting. As he told the investigations later, he happened, on a window on the sixth floor of the alleged shooting, see a man moving to and fro the window a number of times.

According to him, he heard an explosion immediately after the President motorcade had taken the bend towards Elm, after it had gone past the dreadful depository. Upon taking a quick look towards the wind, he caught a glimpse of Oswald as he took aim to fire his very last shot. He said that he was positive it was Oswald as he had seen him clearly from the window.  It is his report to the police immediately after the shootings that led to the arrest of the lone gunman, he later identified him on the television later and later on a lineup. His testimony is reliable due to his closeness to the scene of the shooting and his vantage point.

Emett Joseph Hudson was standing on the Northern side of the Elm Street and was at a strategic point where he could have a vantage view of both the President and the gunman. He was standing with two men who however did not testify, he said he only heard some three shots but however had enough reasons to believe that the shots came for the depository direction. He was very positive that no other shot was fired form any other direction apart from the depository.

Marily Sitzman is another witness who also confirms and reinforces the arguments that a lone gunman killed John F. Kennedy. At the time of shootings, Sitzman was in the office with her boss and were video recording the event that was happening a block away as the Presidents motorcade passed. The film that they were recording came to be famously known as the Zapruder film and it was the center of the attention then.

From this position of their office, the Presidential motorcade was passing right in front of them and they were able to record as the bullet hit the President. Sitzman is uptight and maintains that the three shots came from the same gunman and if there was another shot, she could have heard it louder as she was closer to the said second gunman. She remains positive that the shots were fired from the depository and not from any other direction.

The above three witnesses are convinced and are clear on this. The conspiracy theorists claim there were more than one gunman and that the shots were fired from both the schoolbook depository building and the much-touted grassy knoll. Despite this view so much points towards the lone gun man theory. The witnesses’ claims of the lone gunman were validated by the team of independent and competent investigators. The findings of the investigations have it that Oswald did it and did so unaided (Larry M. S., 2005).

John Conally, a US governor, and his wife was too in the same limousine as the President and was too indeed hurt. Conally and this wife together with other two secret service agent admitted and confirmed the other witnesses reports that the shots were fired form the School Book depository. Of all the 105 witnesses interviewed and who gave their testimonies 99 confirmed the lone gunman report, while only five were differing. This large number of both primary and secondary witnesses is a confirmation that indeed the long gunman theory is more than plausible. Controversy however still rages on as to the total number of shots that were fired that day...

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