On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The Warren Commission, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting the president. However, many people have long believed that there was a conspiracy involved in Kennedy’s assassination.
One of the main pieces of evidence cited by conspiracy theorists is the lack of concrete evidence linking Oswald to the assassination. Oswald was arrested shortly after the shooting and claimed that he was a patsy, but he was never brought to trial and was himself shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later.
Another point often brought up by conspiracy theorists is the fact that several witnesses reported hearing shots coming from the grassy knoll, an area to the right of the president’s limousine, rather than the book depository building where Oswald was allegedly located. The Warren Commission dismissed these accounts, but many believe that these witnesses were credible and that the shots came from multiple sources.
Additionally, some have pointed to the strange deaths of several key witnesses and investigators involved in the case. For example, several witnesses died in accidents or by suicide, and several investigators were killed in the line of duty. Some believe that these deaths were not coincidental, but rather evidence of a larger conspiracy to cover up the truth about the assassination.
Many people continue to believe that there was a conspiracy behind Kennedy’s assassination. Some believe that the CIA, the Mafia, or even the Soviet Union were involved in the plot. While the Warren Commission’s findings may have been accepted by the government and many Americans, the theory of a conspiracy continues to be a source of fascination and debate.
