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Perhaps no event in history has inspired as many alternative theories as the assassination of John F Kennedy. With literally thousands of books on the topic, each with their own interpretation of every detail, every member of the crowd, every frame of the infamous Zapruder film, sorting out the truth from the lies has consumed people’s lives for decades.
Today on A Day In History, we’re going to delve into the JFK assassination. We’ll present the official version, then highlight the discrepancies in the story, present alternative theories for some of the major disagreements, and tell you who we think really killed JFK in Dallas that day.
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We’ll start with the official version proposed by the Warren Commission.
President Kennedy was in Dallas, Texas on November 22nd 1963 riding in an open-top vehicle with First Lady Jackie Kennedy beside him and Texas Governor John Connelly and his wife Nellie in the front.
At 12:30pm, the motorcade turned left from Houston Street onto Elm Street on Dealey Plaza, passing the Texas School Book Depository on the right. Shortly after doing so, 3 shots rang out, fired by Marine veteran and former Soviet defector Lee Harvey Oswald from the 6th floor of the Depository. One of those bullets struck Kennedy in the back and then went into Governor Donnelly Another bullet then struck the President in the head causing catastrophic and fatal damage.
Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where he was declared dead shortly after. His body was taken back to Washington along with new President Lyndon Johnson and Jackie Kennedy for an autopsy at Bethesda Naval Medical Centre which confirmed that two shots hit him, the second fatally.
Meanwhile back in Dallas, Oswald fled the Depository, returned home to grab a pistol before being spotted by Police Officer J. D. Tippit who had been given a description of Oswald from the scene. Oswald shot Tippit and then hid in a movie theatre where he was found and arrested by police. Two days later, on November 24th, Oswald was assassinated in turn by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby as he was being moved through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.
Since then there have been literally thousands of books, articles, documentaries, and more arguing other theories for the assassination, but this basic narrative is a good starting point.
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Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know About the Assassination of JFK, (1993)
Gerald Posner, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, (1993)
J. Edgar Hoover, Reaction of Soviet and Communist Party Officials to JFK Assassination, 1st December 1963
James W. Douglas, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, (2010)
Jim Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (1990)
Kenneth Silber, ‘The Fed and Its Enemies’, AdvisorOne, 1st February 2010,
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Michael Natale, ‘Who Killed JFK? You Wouldn’t Believe Us If We Told You’, Popular Mechanics, 21st November 2023,
Ramon Antonio Vargas, ‘JFK assassination witness questions whether shooter acted alone‘. Guardian, 11st September 2023,
‘Study: Shot Was Fired From ‘Grassy Knoll’’, ABC News, 26th March 2001, :text=March%2026%20%2D%2D%20There%20may,to%20a%20new%20acoustical%20study
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