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Most mainstream and official accounts find no evidence that Secret Service driver William R. Greer fired the shots that killed President Kennedy; forensic and investigative reports attribute the rifle...
Available reporting shows major, long-standing official findings — notably the 1964 Warren Commission — concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and many mainstream analysts and recent reviews of decl...
Newly released records and reporting since 1998 have not overturned the Warren Commission’s basic finding that Lee Harvey Oswald fired shots from the Texas School Book Depository, but they have added ...
Official investigations and later forensic projects consistently link the bullets and fragments recovered from the limousine, the Parkland stretcher, and autopsy material to 6.5×52mm ammunition used i...
Lee Harvey Oswald is tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by a multi-part evidentiary chain placing him on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository at the time shots struc...
The Warren Commission concluded that multiple strands of evidence tied Lee Harvey Oswald to the fatal shooting of Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit roughly 45 minutes after President Kennedy’s assassinatio...
Conspiracy theorists have proposed a range of in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including organized crime figures, CIA operatives, and alleged professional assassins purportedly uncon...
The most prominent “multiple shooter” claims stem from (a) the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ (HSCA) 1979 acoustical analysis that it said indicated a high probability of a second gunman, a...
Lee Harvey Oswald left the Texas School Book Depository shortly after the assassination and, according to multiple official and contemporary accounts, walked down to the first floor, exited the buildi...
Contemporary official investigations concluded that the fragments removed from President Kennedy were consistent with 6.5 mm (Mannlicher–Carcano) style ammunition and that forensic panels found eviden...
Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry publicly said shortly after the murder of President Kennedy that Lee Harvey Oswald had been arrested and he brought Oswald before reporters at police headquarters; Curr...
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 archival trail tying Lee Harvey Oswald from the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) to his Oak Cliff rooming house on November 22, 1963, is built from contemporaneous police records, the Warren Co...
Modern forensic work has repeatedly re-examined JFK assassination evidence using newer techniques—neutron activation and other metal analyses, digital 3‑D preservation, laboratory re-testing and compu...
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 core, recurring claim across the materials is that Lee Harvey Oswald fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, killing President John F. Kennedy, then left the building, enco...
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...
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...
Independent re‑examinations of the Zapruder film, bullet fragments and rifle ballistics since 1998 have come from a mix of academics, forensic labs, private investigators and technical contractors; ke...