The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, some more believable than others. Some of the most well-known include the involvement of the Mafia, Fidel Castro retaliation, and anti-Castro Cubans’ anger at the failed coup. A new Gallup poll shows that 65 percent of Americans now believe JFK was killed as the result of an assassination conspiracy, rejecting the official “Lone Gunman” theory.
The Zapruder film, used as evidence in the case against Lee Harvey Oswald, is seen as evidence in countless conspiracy theories about who shot the president. Polls have shown that most Americans believe JFK was assassinated as an outgrowth of a conspiracy. In 1991, the conspiracy reignited in the form of a major Hollywood movie. In October 2017, the National Archives released over 2,800 previously classified records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The assassination of President Kennedy has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, alleging the involvement of the CIA, “Umbrella man”, and an inside job. Even though JFK Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999, many people were credulous enough to believe the QAnon conspiracy theory. John F. Kennedy’s assassination anniversary on November 23 spotlights a key moment for America’s conspiracy theories amid Donald Trump and other factors.
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Let’s get one thing straight, Jackie flat out refused to change her blood and tissue spattered outfit. She did that on purpose. She knew she was irritating the hell out of people around her by so doing. There was no one, NO ONE more heroic on that day than Jacqueline Kennedy. She was asked several times to get out of what must have become a grotesque and smelly get up, and she said; “No, I want them to see what they did to Jack.” She knew she was a gory witness to a horrible crime. Whoever said “oooh it was such a whirlwind she didn’t have the chance to change….” in the comments below is an example of ignorance.
I was in high school when Kennedy was shot. I lived in an urban area and I can remember how quiet it was for days afterwards. Conspiracy theories started shortly after his death. There were people who thought he actually wasn’t dead; the same people who think Elvis is (was) still alive. The article was great. Thanks Mr. Beat.
I’m a tour guide Downtown Boston and when we are at the Old State House I explain people that the Official Spot of the Boston Massacre is not the correct one. The right one is in the middle of the intersection. I do tell them I understand why the city doesn’t put a marker on the exact spot, because people will be stupid enough to take a picture in the middle of a busy intersection. And you filming some people who do exactly that on a busy road in Dallas proves my point 😀
I was born about a week after JFK was shot. The day it happened my mom was in the doctor’s office for a routine check up. The doctor was telling her what to pack, what papers to sign, what to expect at the hospital- when the receptionist came in and told them, “I heard on the radio just now that President Kennedy had been shot!” The doctor and Mom just looked at each other and at the receptionist in total shock. Later, Mom drove over to her mother’s house. Sure enough, there was Grandma sitting in front of the T.V., perusal Walter Kronkite get kicked off the set for breaking down in front of the whole nation! She and Mom then continued to watch the live coverage without saying a word to each other. Dad then came to Grandma’s from work asking what was going on since no one was was at our house when he got there. Mom and Grandma both looked at him like, “Excuse us? You didn’t hear anything at work? You’re from Boston and you didn’t hear anything? (We were living in Indiana at the time.)” Mom went into labor with me while perusal JFK’s funeral on T.V. I was born November 28, 1963, at 8:44 p.m. local time in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This is amazing, Mr. Beat! President Kennedy’s assassination is such a heartfelt moment in US history, and you’ve told the story beautifully! I can’t help but feel for Jackie, knowing that she was covered in his blood and brains, and that she refused to let him go for the rest of the day. Thank you for going through so much trouble to publish this article, it was worth it! PS: it is absolutely absurd that YouTube will not allow you to show the pictures and footage of that day. Everybody needs to see what happened on November 22, 1963.
Excellent article! My grandpa still remembers the day President Kennedy was assassinated and remembers where he was and what he was was doing. I was thinking about recording him and letting him recall that day and let him tell the story. Pretty soon we won’t have people being able to tell this story as this generation is getting older and older. For our generation I think 9/11 will be the day we all will remember where we were when it happened but my grandpas generation this is the day that they will always remember where they were and what they were doing. Really enjoyed perusal this article.
One of my history professors jokingly claimed that Canada is also partially responsible for JFK’s death. Despite JFK’s bad back, Canada got him to engage in a tree planting ceremony in Ottawa. The ceremony worsen JFK’s back and helped influence him to wear a back brace. That back brace prevented JFK from recoiling forward or leaning forward after being shot in the neck. As a result, a second more fatal shot was made. In short, sorry aboot that.
It was raining in Dallas on the morning of 11/22. In fact, JFK initially expected a bubble top on the car, and as he was 6′ 1”, he would have to duck a little bit to avoid hitting the car roof. The rain soon blew over by noon and JFK went out without a bubble top. If he did have the bubble top, he’d likely be hit in the shoulder or chest, and would likely have survived. Crazy to think how a drizzle could have saved him.
You have obviously gone to a lot of effort to put this together and I do like your sense of humor however almost everything you have said is incorrect. I was a young lad when JFK was killed and still recall the announcement over the radio of the terrible event. Over the years I have pieced together the truth of what happened. All the information is available if you a willing to look. The most important thing to know is that Lee Oswald did not shoot. In fact he never killed anyone in his life, even during his time in the Army. Another point worth mentioning is Jack Ruby also known as Sparky was Lee’s unofficial God Father.
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Fun fact about this. This past summer I was an intern at the Western Reserve Historical Society. One of the security guards there who worked every Friday was Paul Landis, a former secret service agent who was in the car behind the Kennedys during the assassination. I never met him, but everyone talked about how cool of a guy he is.
I was 8 yrs old when JFK was assassinated, i remember that day very well, a very sad day in American History. There are a few very important events you left out of the article such as the pencil sized hole in the windshield, the damage chrome trim above the windshield, the piece of the curb on Elm St.that was removed that had evidence of a bullet stike, the umbrella man, which may have played a larger role than what some people realize. There was also a rush to destroy evidence in the limo itself in the interior, mainly the seats and door panels, i personally dont think Oswald fired the deadly shot, the head shot came from the front, physics told me that back when i saw the Zapruder Film for the 1st time. There were very many odd events that took place on Nov. 22, 1963, from Officer Tippitt to the 2 caskets and disappearing witnesses. Until the over 4000 pages of unredacted documents are released none of us will really know the whole truth.
11:25 this is so shocking to me. Jacki O on the literal night her husbands brain was blown out into her lap, she’s standing next to Lyndon Johnson as he’s sworn in. I just feel like I wouldn’t be able to go out into public so soon after such a tragedy, let alone in front of dozens of cameras being filmed for millions to see at home
I was in 7th grade history class when the school principal made the announcement over the school intercom. All I really remember of that moment was that the entire room was just dead quiet for several minutes. I generally am no conspiracy theorist but in this case I don’t think the public has been told the truth, or at least important elements of the truth. I have at various times wondered if various foreign governments, organized crime, or even American political figures had a hand in the murder. I don’t think the truth will ever be told.
Mr. Beat, I’m writing a novel about JFK Jr, where he lives beyond 1999 and becomes President in 2008 and leads the country through tumultuous times while reflecting on the successes and failures of his father. He also is a dedicated husband and father, as well as a stepfather. He marries a divorced woman and changes a lot of things that happened in the 2000s and early 2010s. I’d love to share it with you when I’m done, I’m sure you’d love to see the new timeline I create.
When I visited Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor museum, I was struck by how small the area was. While the shot from the sixth floor might have been challenging, a shot from the grassy knoll behind the fence would have been easy. One other thing I found interesting is that museum had a collection of cameras, all of which took pictures of the assassination that day. None of them were entered into evidence for the Warren commission.
Very informative, Mr. Beat. Great work. His story has always intrigued me. Today will mark the 60th year anniversary of this tragic event. Dr. Martin Luther King had a chilling reaction when it happened. He said, “I won’t live to see 40. The nation is just too sick. If they will kill the president, I know they’re going to get me. I know they will get me.” November 22, 1963.
The more you read about Oswald, the more simultaneously pathetic and frightening he becomes. It’s very, very believable that he alone killed the president….and also plausible to consider that the CIA of that time may have failed, pwrhaps deliberately, to take any action on information they had that he was an immediate risk to the president.
Your presentation was concise, thoughtful and easy to understand. I was 18 when JFK was assassinated. He was our generation’s hero. It ended our age of innocence and hope for the future. No one of my generation ever believed that Oswald acted alone. He was just a patsy to shield the guilty. I never understood how the CIA figured into this. Now I do
Lee Oswald was a low level intelligence asset, first ONI, then CIA. He was a patsy. Two weeks before, they had another ex-marine, similar to Lee in Chicago set up in case they could pull it off then. Look up Abraham Bolden. Curtis LeMay had an alibi that day (shot on a hunting trip in Canada) and returned to DC when he got the word JFK was dead, so he could attend the autopsy. There where many complicit, if not directly involved. ” I was in Dallas when we got that SOB and in LA when we got the little bastard”- David Sanchez Morales Try to pull up Lee’s IRS records and see who was paying him pre-1963. He was no angel but the US government owes his family, and the family of other like Roger Craig and William Bruce Pritzer an apology
I have a picture of my Grandpa with JFK when he was campaigning in Indiana in the Fall of 1959. My grandpa was at Purdue living with my Grandma, and saw him coming down an elevator. He rushed out and asked to take a picture – to which JFK was more than happy to. They both bonded because my mom and JFK’s daughter were the same age. Such a surreal photo.
I always like hearing the perspectives from old people about who were around when JFK was assassinated. One of my grandfathers was only like 8 years old and said that the announcement came on the school intercom and all of the teachers were crying. And that he went home and wanted to watch cartoons but every station had the news report. My other grandpa was in high school and he and his friends took the opportunity of school ending early to go hang out in Mexico but that they couldn’t because the border was closed
Nobody can place Oswald on the sixth floor at the time of the shooting. He was seen on the second floor five minutes prior, and less than 90 seconds afterward, calmly drinking a Coke in the second floor lunch room. A paraffin test showed that he had not fired a rifle that day. He had no motive. He can not definitively be connected to the rifle which, as it turns out, was initially identified by five experienced cops as a German Mauser. They only claimed it was the famous Carcano when they decided they could link the Carcano to Oswald. Oswald owned no bullets, no gun cleaning equipment. If Oswald had gone to trial and been represented by competent counsel, he would have been acquitted. He denied doing it: “I didn’t shoot anybody,” he said on camera. He was denied legal representation and interrogated for twelve hours over the next forty-eight hours, and not a single record, note, or recording of his interrogation was made. Then two days after his arrest, he was assassinated by a lifelong Mafia associate in the basement of the Dallas police station in front of seventy cops, so that he could never have his day in court.
My stepmother went to school with Oswald and never doubted he did it. I used to deer hunt quite a bit when young and the the first thing I thought when I stood at that window several years ago was that it was an easy shot. I guess I can’t see how a conspiracy involving several agencies and hundreds of people is still just a guess. Oswald acted alone and there was no conspiracy.
My opinion is that there was no second shooter, but I’m agnostic as to whether Oswald was working with, or being directed by, some other individual or entity. There’s no firm evidence for such an allegation, but I just can’t get over how deeply suspicious it is that the assassin himself got assassinated.
My biggest issue with JFK conspiracy theories is that they often have a conclusion first and then work backwards to find evidence to support it. And it’s usually quite easy to support any theory you may have when you think this way because you often subconsciously overlook or dismiss evidence that points to a contrary conclusion
Really well done article, Mr. Beat! I am impressed you were able to film on location! Kennedy was one of my favorite presidents and I’ve been wanting to visit the Sixth Floor Museum since moving to Texas a few years ago. I didn’t know the boardinghouse was a museum, too, so I will have to add it to my list. I personally am one of the people who thinks there was a second shooter or a bigger conspiracy, especially with Lee Harvey Oswald being a sympathizer for the Soviet Union. (I’m surprised that didn’t make it into the article.) Plus I have trouble buying the “magic bullet theory,” but yes, I started buying into the conspiracy theory after perusal the Oliver Stone JFK film as a middle schooler. I appreciate your taking the time to lay out the evidence for and against the different theories even though you had time constraints. I also still can’t believe YouTube made you censor the photo of Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald; I have a book with it in it and I wouldn’t consider it graphic at all. If you have a chance, on a future trip to Texas, you should visit the LBJ library and the LBJ ranch!
One day, despite the overwhelming secrecy and coverups, the US government will ultimately be held responsible for the assassination of this man. There is no doubt whatsoever, that this was an inside job, and the truth will prevail. Every single person involved will be identified and Damnatio memoriae from history. Regardless of the political times, the intention to enter the Vietnam war by all means for the military industrial complex, or agreed involvement of the mafia, we WILL ALL know what happened on that fateful day, and history will reflect this disgusting and abhorrent course of events. It’s WELL past time to let the public know exactly what happened that day, regardless of what becomes of the CIA and others involved.
I remember when all this happened. I was 5 years old at the time, and back then I lived in Japan while my dad was stationed there in the Air Force. At the time everything happened I was outside playing with my brother, and my mother came running out of our house yelling, “President Kennedy’s been shot!”
I appreciate the balanced look on the events covered in this article. Besides the conspiracies there’s still a lot of information that we don’t know about the assassination since if I remember correctly the investigation by police and other parties at the time was pretty sloppy. Anyways it’s definitely not impossible that Oswald acted of his own accord, but to me it almost seems too simple or convenient? Don’t feel too strongly either way though I think it’s interesting to speculate about since we’ll never definitively know for sure. Would definitely enjoy more historical content by the way, cheers man.
Growing up in Dallas with multiple teachers who were alive and in the city during the assassination, and having multiple opportunities to visit the site and museum was always very cool to me. I’ve never been able to shake the idea of a second shooter, and its also really surreal, as a child at least, to see and stand where Oswald shot from
Thanks for the content…it’s a shame that this is such a complex topic to really adequately discuss in 30 minutes…for example people perusal the article may be left wondering why on earth the CIA was keeping tabs on Oswald and could assume this demonstrates their involvement and the article doesn’t explain Oswald’s background and why these things made sense even if errors in judgement were made. Good effort over all!
I can’t believe you stood right there in Dealey Plaza, with the assassin still at large. 🤦🏻♂️ But seriously. Glad you finally got this article up. I know it has been a headache with YouTube’s over sensitive “Content ID, thinking that the photo you wanted to use was “graphic”. And not a part of history. 🤬
If you’re looking for another complimentary article on JFK’s assasination, I highly recommend Ask A Mortician’s article on JFK’s funeral (from Parkland Hospital all the way to DC, and how Jackie Kennedy ran the show since her husband’s passing (sort of)). It will give you another perspective on the tragedy as well…
A friend of mine once visited the Texas Book Depositary and the exact spot where the assassination actually took place. From all the coverage he had seen, he thought that it was a huge distance that required remarkable marksmanship from Lee Harvey Oswald. That was what he had been led to believe. Instead, he was totally surprised, and he told me, “I could have made that shot!”
The one memorable takeaway I had from visiting Dealey was just how incredibly SMALL it was! Oswald, from the book depository window, was RIGHT ONTOP of Kennedy as the vehicle passed thru. I’ve always felt certain Oswald did it. His motivation I can’t claim to know. But he was THE shooter. If he wasn’t, why literally take off running and shoot the cop that approaches you? That’s incredibly guilty behavior, and most Americans don’t even know that happened. Oswald killed 2 men that day. The president and a Dallas cop. Ultimately, visiting Dealey really just solidified it for me. Quite an easy shot.
I think Oswald killed Kennedy, but I don’t think JFK was the real target. I think Oswald was trying to kill Connally. This article mentioned how there was no clear motive for Oswald killing Kennedy. But Oswald hated Connally, as he was secretary of the navy and refused to change Oswald’s discharge from dishonorable to honorable. Oswald considered Connally a personal enemy. Motive is right there. Even Oswald’s wife assumed he had tried to kill Connally when she was questioned.
This story’s always fascinated me, and one of my favourite movies happens to be Oliver Stone’s JFK. I’ve still never quite known what to make of it, and I’m even writing a spy novel where the main character investigates a mystery in Dallas around the same time as the assassination. Odd note, the first episode of my favourite TV Show, Doctor Who, aired the day after the assassination, and it’s believed that the early ratings figures were disappointing because people just weren’t in the mood to watch it after such an event.
One of the things closer to home (for me in the UK) is a one acre stretch of countryside near Runymede, Surrey, UK, that was donated to the United States by the UK. A simple stone plaque reads the following: “This acre of English ground was given to the United States of America by the people of Britain in memory of John F. Kennedy. Born 29 May 1917. President of the United States 1961-63. Died by an assassins hand 22 November 1963” It also features a very famous section of his 1961 Inaugural Address: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, (in order) to ensure the survival and the success of Liberty,” As it’s fully sovereign US territory, despite me having yet to cross the Atlantic, I have been on US soil 🙂
I was in first grade in Oregon, so we got the news right before lunch. it wasn’t announced in the intercom (iirc we didn’t have one. But someone came to the class, wispered to our teacher, and she told us. We were let out of school. It was a Friday. I can’t remember if my parents even talked about it. Everyone was numb. I do remember the newscasts, though, and the newspapers.
No way, Beat. Oswald may or may not have fired any of those shots but he did NOT fire the fatal shot that blew out his head. You can’t argue with physics and the only way his head would’ve moved back and to the left is from a bullet impacting his head from the front and right. Precisely where the grassy knoll was.
i mean he was too good of a marksman, a non army men practicing to be that good? three rounds consecutively all hitting target? i just don’t buy it. lot of people miss even close up target with guns today. if a dude buys at least few thousand rounds to practice. fbi or cia definitely got a scent of this dude.
Although you do a great job on your articles dealing with history and government, I would say your commentary that Oswald did the shooting is misguided. The fact that Oswald was seen by witnesses in the second floor break room as late as 15 minutes before the assassination, and he was next seen by police officer Marion Baker within two minutes after the shooting. No one could place Oswald in that sixth floor window, much less firing a gun. Witnesses described a “man” and “pipe in a window” who could have been anyone. Oswald was likely an operative for either the CIA or FBI and was likely a pawn in the scheme. As for the Zapruder film, as I wrote in my own piece about this, anyone with eyes, a brain, and common sense could plainly see that Kennedy was hit at least one time from the front. If Oswald went to trial, he would have been likely acquitted due to hearsay and poor evidence.
I am 100% convinced LHO did not shoot the president. Point 1: fragments of the bullet removed from Connelly weigh more then the missing material of CE 399. Point 2: Their was an analysis of the atomic make up of CE 399 and the fragments from Connelly. They don’t match. Point 3: The CIA was working with LHO since he was stationed in Japan. How did he return without any problem and given cash and an airplane ticket rather than being charged with Treason since he had a Top Secret Clearance. He was acting as a spy for the CIA.
My big question about Oswald is why was he allowed back into the country after defecting to the Soviet Union? He still seemed to be a communist sympathizer upon returning so he hadn’t refuted his reasons for going. Was he taken back for some kind of propaganda purposes? They hoped he’d say the USSR was terrible? He did say he didn’t like it there but was not doing a 180 and loving the US again. Oswald was a marksman so he could have pulled off the shots, the positions of Kennedy and Connolly make the single bullet theory possible, The back and to the left can be from a shot from behind, we have this idea about how a shot person falls from movies. The CIA was then very secretive and up to things they wouldn’t want known so they come off shady but how does a group go from a disaster in the Bay of Pigs to a completely brilliant operation on US soil? Why haven’t they killed other presidents or politicians when they feared their influence? That was a much more naive America in 1963 so the president got more protection and so did prisoners in custody thanks to the mistakes of then. The autopsy was rushed because they wanted the body back in DC for the burial. The man was dead from an obvious cause so they thought why do too much. As with every conspiracy theory, how can so many have known about it and kept quiet?
Oswald owned the rifle. Oswald smuggled the rifle. Oswald left his latent print on the rifle. Oswald had every bullet and fragment ever found matched to his rifle. Victims’ reactions in Zapruder’s film clearly demonstrate they are hit by the same bullet, and ergo from behind. Kennedy’s massive exit wound plainly seen exploding at the temple is consistent only with a shot from behind. Connally’s said the shots came from behind. Autopsy shows the shots came from behind. Parkland doctors had no particular problem with the autopsy photos demonstrating the shots came from behind. Witnesses directly under the sixth floor window firmly said the shots all came from directly overhead. Oswald was a perfectly plausible match for the man seen in the window. No unidentified persons were ever caught inside the building. Oswald lied to police about his whereabouts during the shooting. Oswald was the only employee inside the building to immediately flee the plaza. Oswald refused to cooperate with any investigator. Oswald just shrugged a hollow, rambling reply when asked on live TV, “Did you shoot the President?”
a lot of this is rationalization, in the same way people insisted Elvis was runnings around the country for 40 years after his death or that marlyin monroe didn’t off herself. People want some giant conspricy to be true because the truth is unsatisfying and hard to accept That one maybe two lunatics took a president of the us out in broad daylight on the main street of a large us city
Man, you are what I wanted to be. A high school history teacher. I got to do that for three years before I went back for a Ph.D. And taught a couple classes on my own there. Then my wife became pregnant and I had to get one of those jobs that’s kills you, but provides for one’s family. Come on man, if you are anything like what I thought you were, despite your (well thought out) insane view of the Electoral College, you would not have said that. It can be proven (by accepted modern historical standards of evidence) beyond a reasonable doubt, that the official narrative is horse crap. Is it necessary for me to write a 25 page article using Chicago for you to understand that? Or are you just trying to maintain “credibility?” The ONLY “conspiracy theory” I believe in is the one that has a mountain of (universally accepted) evidence…probably just a coincidence.
Mr Beat, this was the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of the Biggest cover up of what our government did to a Sitting president that will forever never be forgotten. I was 10 years old in the 6th grade, November 1963. We Students heard the horrific screaming by our Teacher and the sound will never exit my memory. “The President is Dead, Someone killed him. The President is Dead. Someone Killed him.” I as other classmates were Stunned and Shocked that a Teacher was Crying and screaming. I never witnessed a Young Teacher Crying, and I’ll never forget it that LH O was the Fall guy, and J Rudy took his very life on TV to prevent him from Talking. This act in broad daylight is Not a Conspiracy, it was a Rush to Blame Lee using a Rifle from that window as The Magic Bullet is a Fabricated Story. Our President who Said, ” Ask not what your Country can do for you, Ask what You can do for your Country” Speaks Volumes to the Greatest American Veteran and 45 th President this Country Lost. And since that Day America 🇺🇸 Changed Forever. Just look at 04/05 /2024 and Look at What One Fake And Corrupt FJB aka Brandon has Done with Corruption and Open Borders, and Various Civil Unrest in the USA, and Wars and Rumors of Wars and a Stumbling, incoherent, Lover of Money from Foreign Countries, Ice Cream Licker And Little Girls Sniffing has Done to Retain Power as a Dictator and Turn America Communist, Senator Joseph McCarthy was Right in the 1950’s, he was Criticized, for Listing US Americans Who Endorsed Communism from within and look at America Today, The Democrats are No Different Now, and just look at Hollywood, And Those Entertainers and The Left Today.
After Kennedy was shot, what does Oswald do? He leaves the building. Doesn’t say anything to anyone, including his boss. He just leaves. He goes home and grabs his jacket and gun. Gun? He’s wanders around the neighborhood. Why? He’s looking for someone, hoping the person will drive by. Who? The person who was supposed to pick him up after he assassinated Kennedy but………………… that person never showed up!!!!! I believe he was totally guilty of assassinating Kennedy and he didn’t do it alone. Someone was supposed to pick him up and wisk him off to another country but they never showed up. He got royally screwd and Ruby killed him before Oswald started singing like a canary.That’s what I believe happened, anyway ( or something very similar )
I have very little faith in ever knowing the truth. I was eighteen when it happened still to be considered as a child until I was twenty one. I started out believing the Warren Commission. At the time I still had a lot of faith in the government. As time went by I doubted the government more and more. I became increasingly disappointed with our government. I suspect Oswald didn’t to it. I suspect more than one shooter. I don’t have a suspect. There are numerous possibilities. A prosecutor would decline to go to trial on this case because they could not prove it.
Back when I was an undergraduate in the early 1980s I had a history teacher who was…well…rather dry and unemotional. Great teacher, just kinda low-affect. One day, one of my classmates made a comment about why such a big deal was made about the Kennedy assassination. (For context, most of us students would have been at most, infants or toddlers at the time.) It was the first – and probably the only – time the professor came out of “lecture mode” and switched to “conversation mode.” I’ll never forget what he said: “Unless you lived through it, you’ll never know what it was like that day.” And then he went on to describe the feeling of national despair and of having been robbed of something dear. And today I feel myself repeating those words to a young person who learned about 9/11 as history…not as current events. And THEY’LL use the same words to describe the pandemic to today’s newborns and toddlers.
I’ll just say his; if you know how ballistics work you know the exit wound is massive and then entry wound is small by comparison. Why was the back of JFK’s head blown out if the kill shot cam from the rear? HIs face should’ve been wrecked, but the autopsy photos show it wasn’t. Modern blood spatter science proves the kill shot came from the front because the two Dallas Motorcycle Cops on JFK’s left had blood on the front of their uniforms and bikes. Also the audio on website 1 of the DPD’s motorcycle was proven to be correct AFTER it was supposedly debunked. Just sayin.
It’s refreshing to know that folks like you guys follow the simple facts laid out by the warren commission and aren’t bedeviled by suspicion of the government and the CIA just because there’s serious money to be made in tantalising anti-government conspiracy theories. I believe the federal government serves an important purpose, and like any of us, needs to work on transparency and continuous improvement, but are largely decent honest folks like us and inoscent till proven guilty, I read the Warren Commission and listened to enough ballistic experts whom I thought they did a good job to earn my trust. Just the fact that Oswald shot a police officer five times to get away from him doesn’t seem like your everyday casual innocent dude, among the string of other facts. Thanks a whole bunch for working for our democracy. You guys rock!!
Gotta say I’m disappointed with this article. It’s not enough to make a article that’s 50/50 on both sides and then just say “yeah it wss Oswald but maybe still a conspiracy.” Oswald acted alone, and any theory to the contrary stretches into fantasy land. “The cia was aware of Oswald” yeah of course? He defected to and returned from the USSR, of course they kept tabs on him. Does that in any way hint towards them using him to kill jfk? No, why would they? Does that imply they knew ge would do it? When oswald himself planned the killing only a few days before it happened? No. The jfk killing is not a mystery, any more than 9/11 is a mystery and you wouldn’t make such an open ended article on those conspiracy theories.
On this occasion of the 60th anniversary of the horror I watched about four very recent articles of presentations of different researchers which all show from different angels the extent of the meticulous planning of this crime by CIA, FBI, local police etc. This could only have been coordinated from very high up, i.e. J. Edgar himself. But I doubt that he would have dared to do this if he had not been prompted into it and having been sure of the backing by Lyndon B.
JFk likely fsked his own death! Why did Jackie climb onto the boot? She picked something up. I have said this before in a comment and got a reply saying “It was a piece of JFK’s brain and I accepted this expansion. Since rethinking this I ask why should she do that, even if it was a piece of his brain? If your husband had just been shot would you climb onto the boot of the car to retrieve it so soon? for what reason? Ok whoever said it was a piece of his brain – who said that and how did they know and moreover is that explanation a lie in the cover up? Ok? what I don’t know is did she retrieve the piece of brain fragment before or after the famous shot of his brains apparently being blown out? This theory is someone elses and I don’t know who. the theory goes that JFK had a stage prop device attached to his head, he pulled a detonator chord but the handle fell off and landed on the boot of the car. This is why Jackie risked climbing onto the boot of the car to retrieve it. The stage prop was designed to make it look like JFK’s brains were being blown out. JFK, like the entire Kennedy family are Iluminati. But why fake your death? To put the fear of God into everyone’s mind of the power of the USA Government via the resulting conspiracy theories which predominantly reach the conclusion it was the Government who are ultimately to blame, regardless of who actually supposedly shot him. If this theory is true then it would make perfect sense in terms of the antics of Skull and Bones – and one of their tactics is the Double Cross.
@ 12:06 umm you do realize though that there are still hundreds if not thousands of classified documents still being hidden from the public correct? When there’s lack of transparency this is what happens & people will go with conspiracy theories bc the government is clearly trying to hide information from the public.
One aspect that has consistently perplexed me regarding the assination of John F. Kennedy is the underlying motive behind Lee Harvey Oswald’s decision to assassinate the President of the United States. It begs the question of what circumstances led Oswald to believe it was necessary to ruthlessly murder Kennedy in such a calculated manner. What actions or policies had Kennedy implemented that provoked such a severe reaction from Oswald, prompting him to carry out this heinous act?
Some of these comments…….it’s like these people didn’t watch the article 🤦🏻♀️ There is no big, grand conspiracy, it’s all hokey-pokey, just like the moon landing & flat earth theories. Hypothetically let’s say JFK was assassinated by the CIA or aliens, it would have been leaked I guarantee you: Why? Because boy oh boy do people love to talk.
The assassin of JFK was ultimately the worst day in American history. he was a very popular President. there have been a number of conspiracies with the assassination. but the true answer has never really been established. myself I tend to believe the professionals with the lone assassin answer. but there were some questions about Joe Kennedy. (JFKs father) being involved with organized crime. that claimed that JFK didn’t do flavors for the mob and neither did his brother RFK. who was the attorney general at the time. there have been a number test fires that show a lone assassin. also bullistics doesn’t confirm a second shooter. but the problem is there is no ties with Oswald and the mob. however Oswald and his wife lived in Russia and Cuba for a time. but even with all the information that has been gathered. it’s still inconclusive as to what actually happened. but there were some things that could have prevented the assassination from happening. for instance JFK requested the Lincoln Presidential limousine. and it had a bullet proof top that went with it. but JFK requested the top not be on the limousine. because he wanted to be more accessible to the American people during the motorcade. I guess the real answers will always be inconclusive about the assassination. which is a shame because JFK was one of the greatest presidents this Country has ever had. and rightfully belongs on the Short list of great Presidents.
Kennedy tried to move the U.S.A. away from the Independant FEDERAL RESERVE, He even had Silver Certificate Fiat Currency printed up in anticitpation to be used as legal tender. He and the Governor of Texas were both involved in the movement away from the FEDERAL RESERVE at the time Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The ‘CIA’, ‘FBI’ and ‘THE FEDERAL RESERVE’ were all involved in the assissination the John F Kennedy, it was an inside job by our own government. Today, you hear of talk about a weaponized deep state government, the truth is the Government has been weaponized against the people for many decades now and people today are starting to finally wake up to it! . . .
I’ve been to the Thexas Theater a few times. Love it to death. They participate in film restoration projects as well as show indie films along with feature films. They actually sell LHO mugshot on a t-shirt and have custom made tiles on the walls of case photos and diagrams. On the aniversary of the assisnation they actually play the movie they showed on that day, and charge 25 cents for a ticket. Its like a whole day affair.
In 1963 John F. Kennedy used the US Constitution which states: “Congress will have the power to coin money and regulate its value. » By nationalizing the American banking system and signing Executive Order 111 110 on June 4, 1963, by this law John Fitzgerald Kennedy had just signed his death warrant as this virtually unknown presidential executive order was intended to fundamentally strip the Federal Reserve Bank (the FED) of its power “to mint the currency and regulate its value” which prompted the shareholders of the Federal Reserve to simply get rid of it. Remark : A few months before his assassination, John F. Kennedy was scolded by his father Joseph in the Oval Room of the White House. “If you do it, they* will kill you!”, the signature of Executive Order 111 110 of June 4, 1963… And “they*” killed it. *FED shareholders: According to Mullins, these shareholders are… • The Rothschilds. • The Lazard Brothers (Eugene Mayer). • Israel Sieff. • The Kuhn Loeb Company. • The Warburg Company. • The Lehman Brothers. • Goldman Sachs. • The Rockefeller Family. • The Interests of J.P. Morgan.
What is missing in all these documentaries about the JFK assassination and Jack Ruby is what Ruby told his attorney and his Rabbi. And that was he did it to save the Jewish people, Israel and avoid another holocaust. ?? This was before he went off the rails in his head later. But why would he say that? And he also said he had information about who did the planning for the assassination that no one was ever going to know. ??? This makes no sense until you put some of the seldom mentioned facts connected to this event. First, JFK was in a heated dispute with Ben Gurion concerning Israel’s secret development of the nuclear bomb and was threatening to cut all financial and military aid to Israel if complete inspections of Israel’s Dimona nuclear facilities did not occur. About Israel, JFK was quoted as saying “Those bastards are always lying to me!” Ben Gurion resigned and that delayed the ultimatum until a new leader could be chosen. Shortly after in the same year, JFK was assassinated. Jack Ruby (Rubenstein) was a gun runner for Israel at its inception and was an outspoken Zionist, known for picking fights with anyone who said anything disparaging about Israel. Ruby had traveled to Israel in the past on a “labor organizing retreat”. See the documentary “who killed the Kennedy Brothers”. All the pieces of the puzzle come together in that article.
Okay, so clearly the “fatal” shot to the head according to physics, had to have been taken from the grassy knoll. I’m 99% sure that the 2nd gunman on the grassy knoll infamously known as the “badge man” directly associated with the “smoking gun” image was the person used as a fail safe to make sure the job was completed. I also believe some scary dudes from the CIA coerced Oswald into making him the “fall guy”, aka a person strategically hired to create the assumption of the American people to believe that the JFK assassination was and still is the handi-work of a derranged ex-pat dead set on betraying his country. There’s a reason the I in CIA is intelligence, they believe (at least back then) that they could outsmart the entire U.S. population in believing everything they secretly schemed. Let’s think for a moment that Lee Harvey Oswald, did act alone, and was not hired by the CIA to be the “fall guy” and truly DID want to assassinate the President of the United States. What would’ve been his true motive? Were JFK’s policies really cramping Oswald’s style so much that he’d go as far as taking matters into his own hands? Or did he make a deal with the devil (CIA) to meticulously orchestrate what would become the most popular unsolved mysteries of unsolved mysteries?
This is a great article and the only one I am aware of, that traces the path of Oswald from the Book Depository to his capture. An artist should paint on the streets the footsteps of Oswald on the side walk and road crossings. People today can actually follow the path on the ground of the participants of this truly dynamic and historic chase. Tippit sketched out in body tape where Tippit lay and where Oswald stood to shoot him and then ran from that murder. Another set of footsteps behind Oswald’s to the theater from the shoe store. All the locations are historical sights complete the whole event, literally, a square mile radius measured out from Dealy Plaza to the actual capture ought to be designated a historic district never to be modernized or touched but completely preserved to make this event real for the people of the present and future. Note: Why hasn’t Oswald not proven he was not working with the CIA as a possible double spy? Oswald was in the USSR and kicked out. Too bad some of the Russians at the time Oswald was there and still alive are not interviewed.
The CIA being involved doesn’t make as much sense as people claim. They spent years planning the bay of pigs. It was still a terrible plan. Their alleged plans for the JFK hit are somehow even worse. We know how much the CIA hated commies. Yet I’m supposed to believe they would trust a commie as a major part of their plan? I also have to believe that the CIA wanted Oswald to kill a former US general who was a hardline anti communist. I also have to believe they got Ruby a known proud supporter of JFK to not only participate in the cover up but also be willing to go to death row over it. Then I have to believe that all of this happened so that LBJ could be president only to drag his feet on sending more troops to vietnam. To me, that doesn’t sound like the CIA I know. However, misdirecting and obfuscating details about the assassination in order to have people come to the conclusion that the CIA is so powerful and controlling that they can kill the president surrounded by his security in broad daylight; that sounds right up their alley. It’s better for the CIA for us to think they killed JFK than it is if we think they failed to protect him. If they were so embarrassed about the failure of the bay of pigs that they were willing kill the president. Then you can argue they would go to other great lengths to hide their failure in protecting the president from a lone commie with a cheap Italian rifle. Or maybe they were so fed up with failing to assassinate Castro that they were jealous of Oswald and wanted some credit.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation knew everything needed to prevent that from happening meaning they indirectly had a hand in it. They are their own worst enemy and every city on Earth lives their, The FBI’s, mistakes and traumatic events people are not allowed to talk about! Cowards, aren’t we all!
The FBI was following Oswald because he had previously renounced his US citizenship and defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950’s, embracing communism. He later returned to the US with his Russian wife. The FBI and State Department tragically mis-analyzed his continued opposition to the US government as not posing a threat. Allowing the President to ride in a convertible through an urban jungle was unforgivable.
We have known for decades the “X” is in the wrong place. Unless they moved it. So much of this information has been revised. It’s really fascinating to research all the theories and come to your own conclusions. Oswald’s fingerprints were not found in the assassin’s nest, but Mac Wallace’s were. He was LBJ’s hired gun who even killed Johnson’s sister.
A few mistakes…none Earth shattering, but I thought the corrections should be made. Tippit was shot 3 times, the gunman started to leave, and they returned to shoot Tippit once in the head. He was not shot 5 times. J.D. Tippit was NOT ordered to the area he was shot or even told to watch for a suspect. He was seven miles from District 79, which was his assigned patrol area. There were THREE physicians who did the QUOTE “autopsy.”. Navy physicians (Hospital Pathologists…not forensic pathologists) CMDR J. J. Humes and CMDR J.T. Boswell were joined by Forensic Pathologist Pierre Fink, who was the second assistant, with Humes in charge. Fink was brought to Bethesda National Naval Center, where the autopsy was done, from Walter Reed Army Hospital.
It was a really weird assassination. I haven’t seem good enough evidence to suggest that there was a second shooter, Oswald may have even acted alone (or have been lightly encouraged to continue with his plans). I think there were connections with the CIA, and besides the usual conspiracy theories, it might have been the case that he heard some CIA guys saying they wanted him gone, and he took matters into his own hands. Or some agents went rogue. It seems to me that Oswald was very lucky with his shots, hitting 2/3 times at a moving target at a long distance. If the CIA knew what he was planning they even might have been surprised by the results. Maybe there was a backup plan if Oswald missed. Maybe they didn’t expect him to leave the building alive, or they thought he’d be able to escape afterwards freely. Whatever happened, the CIA didn’t want Oswald captured alove. It seems plainly obvious that there was a hastily pieced together hit on Oswald orchestrated through connections in the mob.
WHY…. DID KENNEDY KNOW THAT “THEY” WERE GOING TO KILL HIM….. PRESIDENT Kennedy’s DEATH WAS LIKE “A SACRIFICE……A SACRIFICE FOR WAR………. “😢 I WAS A YOUTH AT THE TIME OF OUR PRESIDENT KENNEDY. MY GRANDPA AND EVERY ADULT THAT I KNEW CRIED……..😢😢😢..……” THE DAY THE WHOLE WORLD CRIED “😢 THIS EVENT TOOK MORE THAN THREE GROUPS OF PEOPLE……. COULD THIS HAVE BEEN A GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER BY OTHER AGENCIES WITHIN 😢???????? “WE ALL KNEW THE REAL TRUTH… BUT FELT TO AFRAID OF THOSE THAT DID THE DIRTY DEED……… “
I went to these places 5 days after your article premiered. It was neat. I saw the Bridal Shop owner as she closed up about 5 PM. I went into the Texas Theater without paying! War in Hell was playing, and JFK was scheduled for the evening. In the lobby they were playing late 60s hits as I reviewed my schedule and map. Good article; liked 🙂
I bet LBJ was scared to go against the CIA and The Military after what they did to JFK. I’ve been thinking about this a lot and the Z Film came out in 1969 that’s when Robert McNamara switch parties from republican to Democrat …..and if you really think about it deeper ….Nixon was supposed to be president when JFK won to continue the military business. Who ever was holding them military contracts…you gotta follow the money. It’s just strange how gHWBush was director of CIA and then VP then President….did he clean up the mess Alden dukes dies, Edgar Hoover died, LBJ all died of heart attack. After the the Z Film. Clean the imagine of the GOP. Operation mongoose was definitely use during the 60’s jfk, MLK, RFK MK Ultra. I don’t think it was racism why MLK Jr was murder he was a big part of getting the vote out! Republicans for decades have really tryed hard to take power and now we see the SCOTUS is compromised. The dark money is the issue and it needs to be change. The power belongs to the people not military contractors. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockerfeller, Reagan, Bush…..what they all have in common! Imagine foreign enemies installing their puppet? Jim Garrison said Let justice be done though the heavens fall!
Who had the most to gain? Rufus Cornpone? Who ran the Warren Commision ? Now President Rufus Cornpone.. Who said November 21 ” after tomorrow he will never call me Rufus Cornpone again” You guessed it the 36th president of the United States ” Rufus Cornpone”.. Who by the way Kennedy was going to drop from the ticket.. his political career for the most part over.. Good Ol Boy Rufus
Check out America’s untold stories. According to them their were multiplayer shooters. and the Government was involved on every level and that included LBJ, FBI, CIA, Oswald and Ruby even Connelli was involved. They also say there was a shot from the over pass. Oswald was a agent for the CIA. There is a book called The Hit List, 45 people died mysteriously or disappeared, including news reporter, Dorothy Killigan, from What”s My Line! Check.
Doctors who conducted the autopsy were shocked that the X-rays they took were removed and replaced with fakes. The spot on Kennedy’s skull where he was hit was near his right frontal lobe – an impossible place to hit from the book depository, which was behind Kennedy, but a feasible target from the grassy knoll.
The lady selling tickets for $3 a head to Oswald house says *MY Investigation shows… blah blah blah* The U.S., which has every resource know, and unknown, to man available to them, happened to have investigated the incident themselves and came to their own conclusion. Who do you think is right?!? ummm… actually, since I put it that way and reread my own comment, I’m leaning toward believing Grandma!!!😳
Cool website, Mr Beat, for history/government. Facts or opinion. Wow, the JFK assassination. It’s like the Murder on the Orient Express of Presidential shootings. I tend to favor the vindictive husband with a gun, considering how much of an adulterer JFK was. Albeit secretly, anonymously. Just saying. Also, funny how we don’t refer to our presidents with 3-letter acronyms since the assassination crazed ’60s. We still give ’em cute nicknames. Or do we? Reagan was the Gipper, usurping the name of a beloved, accomplished athlete (for his day) as if he himself were the actual Geo. Gipp. Being an actor he could easily be forgiven I suppose. The Kennedy assassination unfolded so perfectly it seems, in every way. Especially when presented in the way it is so may times. Like it was made-for-TV movie stuff, or Oliver Stone film. Too smooth. Too clean. No offense, however, since it was a brutal tragedy. All the major players we can blame in some legit way seems to warrant it. Since Oswald was a Marine you might just as easily blame the government’s Marine Corps. For training him to be such a good shot.
Mr. Beat, I typically enjoy your articles because you seem to do quite a thorough job of researching all avenues. However, I’m sorry to say that I was quite disappointed with this one as you missed quite a bit of information. There was, in fact, a second gunman that day. But not at the grassy knoll as many conspirators will strongly suggest. This gunman was mentioned by multiple eyewitnesses. There’s also a photograph of the man that exists that was revealed during the 1990s but has remained largely infamous. This gunman was a green Secret Service Agent named George Hickey. Hickey had only been with the Secret Service for approximately four months when JFK was assassinated. One of the eyewitnesses was Hickey’s fellow agent, a man named Winston Lawson. Lawson was riding in the front passenger seat of JFK’s car. Lawson said he looked back and saw Hickey standing up in the follow-up car behind the driver with an AR-15 rifle in his hands around the time of the final shot that hit JFK. Lawson said he heard a shot come from Hickey’s direction and believed Hickey had fired his weapon. There were two eyewitnesses on the overpass who saw Hickey with the same gun. One of them was Dallas patrolman, Earl Brown. In his deposition to the Warren Commission, Officer Brown said he saw Hickey standing up with the AR-15 in his hands. Shortly after the cars passed under the overpass, Officer Brown smelled gun powder. There’s also Sen. Ralph Yarborough who said he saw Hickey in the car in front of him with the AR-15 in his hands.
The biggest issue I have always had with this Assasination is what they did with this car after the shooting.. The car was a crine scene.. Period!!! It was put on a plane To Dearborn Michigan for cleaning and Reupholstering.. ordered By Johnson.. I will never believe a thing this U S Goverment tells me. EVER!!!!!!!
Although I am simply a non-American, I can still tell the fact that JFK was one of the best presidents in American history; a super optimistic person, solved people’s common problems that were desperate, made up a resolution for the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of his biggest achievements to this day, he was a WWII soldier who saved lives to fellow soldiers who were drowning and needed desperate help, It’s a real shame that his whole life and presidency ended because of that idiot Oswald, people desperately needed him especially before presidency
Mr. Beat, when discussing the House Select Committee on Assassinations, you didn’t mention the second film of the assassination. It was filmed by Orville Nix. This was filmed where the grassy knoll was. So for that committee to have watched that film and theb conclude there was a conspiracy, there’s much credibility to it. What happened to the Orville Nix film? It surfaced in1978 then magically disappeared after the house committee. There is trickery afoot.
Learn. It’s been to long for you all to STILL have no idea what happened on that tragic, and incredibly important day. Micheal Collins Piper – Final Judgement. Best book on the subject. And I’ve read many. Piper ties all the loose ends together, concisely and honestly, an unflinching look at what was done to the American system of governance.
The only documentary that explains the assassination truthfully was removed by YouTube some years ago. The unfortunate truth 2015 edition jfk assasination. It tells you how, who and why as well as how much they were paid and why Tippet was killed. Tippet was a substitute body for jfk. His nickname was jfk. They had to make Tippets wounds look like shots came from the back but the plastic surgeon didn’t have the time to make the wound look real. Good luck in finding the article it was taken down for being too graphic. It was more likely taken down for being too factual
I’ve spent my entire adult life believing in a conspiracy. However, surprising to me, I’ve changed my mind. Do I think the government knew Oswald was a threat for something? Yeah. Was Oswald probably involved in circles that wanted to get rid of Kennedy? Yeah. Yet, if their plan was to shoot him from a moving target in front of hundreds of people, not the countless times Kennedy was in a crowd, standing still at a podium or alone in his home. Then that’s pretty bad. Also, why do we even have the Zapruder film? Wouldn’t they just destroy the most scrutinized piece of evidence in existence? Oswald saw an opportunity after it fell in his lap and he took it. Was the government probably okay it happened? Sure. But today, I don’t think they did it.