The government has examined the investigation of his death,and concluded that Kennedy was killed by Oswald, who fired three shots with a rifle from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository when the presidential motorcade passed by on Nov. 22, 1963. But that has never fully satisfied doubters, and polls have shown that most Americans still believe that someone other than Oswald must have been involved. "the magic bullet" has recently been disprooved when president Trump released the sealed documents related to the cover up of Kennedy's death acidental or not.
The larger goal was uniting Americans around the war effort.
Cracking down on dissent would be a negative action in support of the larger, positive goal the government sought. The government wanted a fully united public in support of the war, and so it put out the message that that freedom of speech might have its limits in times of war.
They wanted there land back
