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American former marine who assassinated John F. Kennedy (1939–1963)
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...
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...
Since the 1992 JFK Records Act set a 2017 deadline for disclosure, multiple waves of previously secret documents have been released—most notably the Assassination Records Review Board’s 1990s transfer...
Official U.S. investigations have concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963; the Warren Commission and later federal inquiri...
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...
Allen Dulles served as a former CIA director and a member of the Warren Commission investigating President Kennedy’s assassination; his participation and prior CIA role have been cited as a central te...
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 ...
Newly released government files in 2025 disclose extensive Cold War-era CIA covert operations and gaps in agency record-keeping, but multiple major news outlets and historians say those records “do no...
Major investigations have repeatedly rejected or found no persuasive evidence for many popular JFK conspiracy claims: the Warren Commission concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone , the 1982 National ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s public claim that the CIA was involved in President John F. Kennedy’s assassination rests mainly on his personal belief and inferred motive rather than disclosed documentary pr...
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...
Most official investigations concluded Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone shooter: the Warren Commission and later federal reviews found Oswald acted alone . But public skepticism has persisted for decade...
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...
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 ...
Allen Dulles’ role on the Warren Commission is presented in the available analyses as a focal point for claims that his presence introduced conflict of interest, potential bias, and limits to the Comm...
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 available records and recent reporting do that the CIA killed President John F. Kennedy; no document produced so far provides proof that agency officers planned or executed the assassination, and ...
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...
The mainstream, official finding is that Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Officer J.D. Tippit shortly after President Kennedy’s assassination; the Warren Commission and later the HSCA reached that co...
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 ...