Who Shot John F. KennedyOn November 22, 1963, America lost its innocence. Perhaps he has also lost faith, trust in the American government. At a gallop in 1960, 89% of the American population trusted the government. It has since fallen to less than . This means that since the early 1960s, more than 70% of the population has lost faith in the federal government. While there may be several reasons why many people lost their faith, the most important was probably the assassination and investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In 1963 and 1964 the United States government told the American public what happened that fateful day in Dallas, Texas. They said that a madman, Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone killed the president of the United States. This is not the truth. The man who would make peace with Russia and end the Vietnam War early was not killed by a single man. JFK was killed in one of the greatest conspiracies in this country, and perhaps in the history of the world. The assassination of John F. Kennedy shocked the entire country at that time. It was the destruction of Camelot. But to understand what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, we must first look at Kennedy's past. Where he comes from, what he has done, in his private life and in his political life. John Kennedy, despite what the public may have thought, was no saint, and his actions may be what angered enough people in his own country and the government to commit one of the country's most serious crimes; the assassination of the commander and chief. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in 1917 to Joseph P Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Joseph Kennedy, or Papa Joe as he was called, was famous in his own right. After doing the work for…half the paper…resident. But the proof was theirs. While perhaps no one knows what really happened that day in Dallas. Many people took what they knew to their graves. Oswald was killed in the Dallas police station by the famous mobster Jack Ruby. Dozens of other witnesses died mysteriously as investigations by the House Select Committee on Assassinations and Garrison began. If it was Oswald and there was no conspiracy, why was there so much effort to cover it up? The HSCA also stated that "the committee believes, based on the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. Even members of the Warren Commission itself knew this was a lie. Arlen Specter said the wound on his back had always bothered him. There were reminders that the commission would lie and that it needed to be covered up.