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Government & Politics · Assassinations & deaths of public figures
Competing accounts of whether Lee Harvey Oswald fired shots that struck President Kennedy, whether he acted alone if so, whether a shot came from inside the motorcade, and whether U.S. intelligence agencies were involved beyond investigative roles.
Open the caseLee Harvey Oswald3
- Documented · Lee Harvey Oswald was killed on 24 November 1963 before standing trial.
- Contested · A backyard photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle has been disputed as authentic or altered.
- Contested · Some accounts allege that profiling and counter-intelligence framing were used to shape public perception of Lee Harvey Oswald’s motives and associations.
Warren Commission3
- Documented · President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Warren Commission by Executive Order No. 11130 and directed it to evaluate the facts and circumstances of the assassination and the subsequent killing of the alleged assassin.
- Official · The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted as a lone gunman shooting from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.
- Official · The Warren Commission submitted its report on 24 September 1964.
House Select Committee on Assassinations2
- Official · The House Select Committee on Assassinations issued its final report in 1979.
- Documented · The House Select Committee on Assassinations reviewed FBI and intelligence-handling of the assassination investigation, including supervisory testimony and related files.
John F. Kennedy2
- Documented · Declassified JFK assassination records have disclosed previously withheld material on U.S. intelligence operations and related secrets.
- Documented · President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, on 22 November 1963.
Central Intelligence Agency1
- Contested · Release of a CIA file on George Joannides has been cited as evidence of long-running agency nondisclosure connected to the assassination investigation.
Mannlicher-Carcano1
- Contested · Ballistic and statistical analyses of Mannlicher-Carcano bullet lead composition have been used in debates over whether recovered fragments came from the same ammunition.