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Disclaimer: The following story, photos, and accompanying items are fictionalized and are part of Saint Leo University’s Alternate Reality Learning Experience (ARLE). The events described did not occur. The characters are fictional and any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.
According to a recently deceased member of the Warren Commission, the commission knew Lee Harvey Oswald was not the assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Now that this information has been leaked, public outcry has caused the U.S. government to agree to a new trial.
In addition to public outcry, the Oswald family supports this initiative. They have been trying for years to clear their family name.
“We want the world to know he was wrongfully accused,” said his family member. “Plus, we have not been able to obtain our inheritance because of this despicable injustice.”
In order to have an unbiased jury, President Trump stipulated that modern-day college students would provide the safest, least biased group possible. More than 1000 universities applied to be chosen for the jury pool, and Saint Leo was chosen based on a lottery system.
“I believe Saint Leo students will make a fine jury. They will be the best jury available and they will receive rave reviews for their effort,” President Trump stated on Twitter.
According to the federal government, on Nov. 22, 1963 Oswald, a former U.S. marine, assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas during a motorcade through Dealey Plaza. He was originally arrested for the murder of J.D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer, who was killed 45 minutes before Kennedy was shoot. Oswald was later charged with Kennedy’s murder. Days later, when Oswald was being transferred from the city jail to the county jail, he was murdered by Jack Ruby. Ruby, who owned a Dallas nightclub, shot him in front of a televised audience during a live broadcast.
Rudy told the Warren Commission that he was distraught over Kennedy’s death.
“I was saving Mrs. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial,” he said during his testimony.
A year later, the Warren Commission concluded Oswald acted alone in the assassination. These findings were supported by investigations from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and the Dallas Police Department.
The chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassination from 1977-79, G. Robert Blakey, believed both men were attached to organized crime. He believed Oswald carried out a hit for the mob, and then Ruby was contracted by the mob to kill Oswald.
“The most plausible explanation for the murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby was that Ruby had stalked him on behalf of organized crime, trying to reach him on at least three occasions in the forty-eight hours before he silenced him forever, said Blakey in Ronald Goldfarb’s book Perfect Villains, Imperfect Heroes: Robert F. Kennedy’s War Against Organized Crime.
For years, conspiracy theories have abounded, but on Nov. 3-4, 2017, Saint Leo students will hear the evidence and decide once and for all if Oswald really did murder Kennedy.
