On November 22, 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy arrived in Dallas to excited crowds lining the streets hoping to catch a glimpse of the president. At 12:30 in the afternoon, the President's car made the final fatal turn. As the car turned left onto Elm Street, passed the Texas School Block Depository, and descended the hill to Dealey Plaza, Governor Connally's wife said, "Mr. President, you cannot say that Dallas is not does not love you” (Report of the Presidential Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy 48). Immediately afterwards, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was shot in the neck and again in the head (Report of the Presidential Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy 48). To this day, the United States mourns the death of its once young and inspiring president. Forty-eight years later, many people still don't know who is really responsible for the death of such a powerful and popular president. Since the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, numerous conspiracy theories have emerged that the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were linked to the assassination and that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, but had been trapped. As loyal Americans, people do not want to believe that the president's own government is conspiring to assassinate him. However, there are many possible reasons for his potential involvement in the murder. Tensions began to rise when the CIA sent 1,500 trained anti-Castro expatriates to take over Cuba. At the last critical moment, President Kennedy called off the airstrikes that had neutralized Castro's air force. The results were horrific... middle of paper ... very difficult for Americans to accept the idea that someone as insignificant as Oswald could have killed someone as important as Kennedy. The idea that a single man could kill the President of the United States frightens the public because he threatens the security of the nation. The public feels less vulnerable to the idea that there was an organized, collective group conspiring in the assassination plot. It is difficult for Americans to accept the idea that Oswald could have single-handedly outmaneuvered the CIA, FBI and presidential secret services. The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy will remain one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American political history. Unfortunately, no matter how many witnesses or how much new evidence is found, it is unlikely that the world will ever know the complete truth about this American tragedy..