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Historic district in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Lee Harvey Oswald is variously reported to have shot and killed Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit between approximately Central Time on November 22, 1963; the most commonly cited times cluster around ...
Most sources place the Texas Theatre in the Oak Cliff neighborhood roughly 2–5 miles south or southwest of Dealey Plaza (the JFK assassination site). Tour operators and local guides commonly state abo...
The official Warren Commission conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone remains the formal record , but a wide spectrum of alternative theories persists—pointing fingers at foreign governments, U...
The "Umbrella Man" is the figure seen opening and waving a black umbrella on a sunny day in Dealey Plaza as President Kennedy's motorcade passed; he was later identified as Louie Steven Witt and testi...
Forensic evidence presented to the Warren Commission in 1964 tied the Mannlicher–Carcano rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository to the bullets and cartridge cases recovered at Dealey Plaza th...
The acoustic evidence from a Dallas police Dictabelt was central to the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) finding that “scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability...
Official and mainstream accounts say Patrolman J.D. Tippit was on his normal Oak Cliff beat and moved toward central Oak Cliff after hearing radio traffic about the assassination and a suspect descrip...
Photographic and video evidence available in public records includes autopsy photographs and X‑rays held in the National Archives and shown in prior releases, plus contemporaneous hospital photos and ...
Lee Harvey Oswald is broadly reported to have fired the shots that struck President Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository at about 12:30 p.m.; within the hour he left the De...
Abraham Zapruder was a Dallas dress manufacturer who filmed President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, capturing the only known complete movie of the shooting — a 26‑second, 486‑frame 8mm...
Newly released JFK files from March 18, 2025 expanded public access to FBI documents, photos, audio and video but — according to mainstream reporting — did not produce definitive proof of a second sho...
’s 8mm home movie is a lesser-known but consequential piece of amateur footage from that uniquely shows the grassy knoll during the fatal moments of the assassination and has been circulated in imperf...
The multiple‑shooter theory rests chiefly on three threads of evidence: contemporaneous eyewitness reports that many observers perceived shots from the knoll area, —most famously the 1979 (HSCA) revie...
Forensic debate over Dealey Plaza centers on two linked disputes: whether one shooter (Lee Harvey Oswald from the Texas School Book Depository) fired all fatal rounds, and how bullet paths—most notabl...
Contemporaneous newspapers, motion picture evidence and police recordings form the backbone of the official reconstruction of Lee Harvey Oswald’s movements on November 22, 1963, and — as summarized by...
Most mainstream accounts place Lee Harvey Oswald inside the Texas School Book Depository up to about the time of the motorcade’s passage through Dealey Plaza at roughly 12:30 p.m.; eyewitness and offi...
Contemporary public materials and local histories identify the Texas Theatre as the site where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested after the November 22, 1963 events, and they place that theatre in Oak Cli...