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One thing Kennedy is still credited for championing is the American space program. When he issued a challenge to the nation, to put a man on the moon and bring him back to earth ''alive'' before the end of the decade, people called him crazy. How crazy? Ask Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin and you'll get an answer. Just remember to [[Berserk Button|duck]] if you [http://youtu.be/ZOo6aHSY8hU ask Aldrin how crazy the space program was.]
One thing Kennedy is still credited for championing is the American space program. When he issued a challenge to the nation, to put a man on the moon and bring him back to earth ''alive'' before the end of the decade, people called him crazy. How crazy? Ask Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin and you'll get an answer. Just remember to [[Berserk Button|duck]] if you [http://youtu.be/ZOo6aHSY8hU ask Aldrin how crazy the space program was.]


On November 22nd 1963, Kennedy visited Dallas, Texas as part of campaigning for his upcoming run for re-election. As his motorcade passed through Deeley Plaza, shots were fired; Kennedy was hit in the head and throat, and rushed to hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Although a ex-marine, Lee Harvey Oswald, was later arrested and identified as the main suspect of the assassination, numerous irregularities in the record -- along with Oswald's ''own'' assassination, by a mob-connected nightclub owner named Jack Ruby -- soon gave rise to numerous conspiracy theories about [[Who Shot JFK?|who had]] ''[[Who Shot JFK?|really]]'' [[Who Shot JFK?|killed Kennedy]], involving conspirators as wide-spread as [[The Mafia]], [[Dirty Communists|the Soviet Union]], lots of Cubans both pro- and anti-Castro (anti-Castros being pissed about Kennedy's failure to support the Bay Of Pigs, widely believed to be the reason the invasion failed; pro-Castros being pissed about the invasion to begin with, not to mention the President and C.I.A's ongoing "let's try to kill Castro as often as humanly possible" policy), the [[Cloak and Dagger|CIA]], and Kennedy's [[Evil Chancellor|Vice President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], who succeeded him as President <ref>Johnson was known to be extremely ambitious in wanting to be president, and was disappointed at being called up to be a fairly powerless Vice President</ref>. A commission headed by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren later identified Oswald as a "lone gunman". In 1979, the House Assassinations Committee concluded that Kennedy was probably killed as a result of a conspiracy, contradicting the Warren Commission's results, on the basis of a single piece of evidence (a dictabelt recording); this evidence was re-examined in 1983 and subsequently discarded.
On November 22nd 1963, Kennedy visited Dallas, Texas as part of campaigning for his upcoming run for re-election. As his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza, shots were fired; Kennedy was hit in the head and throat, and rushed to hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Although a ex-marine, Lee Harvey Oswald, was later arrested and identified as the main suspect of the assassination, numerous irregularities in the record -- along with Oswald's ''own'' assassination, by a mob-connected nightclub owner named Jack Ruby -- soon gave rise to numerous conspiracy theories about [[Who Shot JFK?|who had]] ''[[Who Shot JFK?|really]]'' [[Who Shot JFK?|killed Kennedy]], involving conspirators as wide-spread as [[The Mafia]], [[Dirty Communists|the Soviet Union]], lots of Cubans both pro- and anti-Castro (anti-Castros being pissed about Kennedy's failure to support the Bay Of Pigs, widely believed to be the reason the invasion failed; pro-Castros being pissed about the invasion to begin with, not to mention the President and C.I.A's ongoing "let's try to kill Castro as often as humanly possible" policy), the [[Cloak and Dagger|CIA]], and Kennedy's [[Evil Chancellor|Vice President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], who succeeded him as President <ref>Johnson was known to be extremely ambitious in wanting to be president, and was disappointed at being called up to be a fairly powerless Vice President</ref>. A commission headed by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren later identified Oswald as a "lone gunman". In 1979, the House Assassinations Committee concluded that Kennedy was probably killed as a result of a conspiracy, contradicting the Warren Commission's results, on the basis of a single piece of evidence (a dictabelt recording); this evidence was re-examined in 1983 and subsequently discarded.


[[Weasel Words|For the record]], the "Single Bullet" theory is still the official and most complete version of events, as far as current evidence is concerned. Despite questions raised on this subject, there is not enough solid evidence to conclude otherwise. The History Channel conducted a reconstruction a few years ago, using a man in a bucket truck at the height of the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, shooting at a convertible at the correct distance from him, moving at the correct speed, with dummies made of ballistic gel and inserts similar to human bone. The result was the bullet almost, but did not quite match the exact trip of the original bullet, but did go through both bodies (Kennedy and Connelly) at a close measure, slightly deflecting because the bullet in the recreation was off by a fraction of an inch from the travel of the original bullet and struck a different bone in one of the dummies. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Please don't start an edit war over this.]]
[[Weasel Words|For the record]], the "Single Bullet" theory is still the official and most complete version of events, as far as current evidence is concerned. Despite questions raised on this subject, there is not enough solid evidence to conclude otherwise. The History Channel conducted a reconstruction a few years ago, using a man in a bucket truck at the height of the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, shooting at a convertible at the correct distance from him, moving at the correct speed, with dummies made of ballistic gel and inserts similar to human bone. The result was the bullet almost, but did not quite match the exact trip of the original bullet, but did go through both bodies (Kennedy and Connelly) at a close measure, slightly deflecting because the bullet in the recreation was off by a fraction of an inch from the travel of the original bullet and struck a different bone in one of the dummies. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Please don't start an edit war over this.]]
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