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Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963; Ruby himself gave several motives — most prominently that he acted out of rage at Kennedy’s murder or to spare Jacqueline Kennedy the trauma of a...
Police officers who located Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theatre on November 22, 1963, arrested him after a brief struggle in which Oswald allegedly produced a pistol and claimed he was a victim of ...
A range of inconsistencies in eyewitness accounts, questions about physical evidence, and the identification of several alternative suspects or persons of interest have fueled the claim that may not h...
Lee Harvey Oswald is widely identified in historical records as the man arrested hours after President John F. Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22, 1963, and the person Jack Ruby fatally shot two days later w...
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...
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...
Most major official inquiries have concluded Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone shooter: the Warren Commission found Oswald acted alone , later federal summaries and institutional histories — the FBI and ...
Declassified releases since 2017 and a large Trump-era dump in 2025 opened tens of thousands of JFK-related pages but have not resolved core questions about Jack Ruby’s wider connections; scholars quo...
Multiple formal psychiatric and psychological examinations of Jack Ruby exist in the public record: jail-administered psychological tests in late December 1963 and January 1964, a preliminary diagnost...
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 Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and that there was “no credible evidence” of a conspiracy . Over six decades of alternative theories—implicating the CIA, the...
The assassination of on November 22, 1963 remains the subject of competing official findings and persistent public controversy: and concluded acted alone , while a later congressional inquiry——conclud...
Declassified records released under the Records framework since 1992 — and especially the large tranche published in March 2025 — have filled gaps about covert operations and Oswald’s travels but have...
The Warren Commission, while faulting the Dallas police for failing to control the crush of reporters and spectators that allowed Jack Ruby to reach Lee Harvey Oswald, issued a set of practical securi...
The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was lawfully taken into custody after resisting arrest in the Texas Theatre and that while he was not abused during his detention, Dallas police ...
Recent, large releases of JFK-related records in March 2025 have reignited long-standing conspiracy discussions: roughly 63,000–80,000 pages were made public after an executive order, and the FBI repo...