The JFK Assassination

Out of all the events in American history, the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy has probably spawned the most widely held conspiracy theories.

A leading one is that there was more than one shooter involved. This stems from the official investigation into the assassination that claimed Lee Harvey Oswald managed to kill the President as well as wounding fellow passenger Governor John Connally with just three rounds. It was asserted that one bullet had passed through Kennedy before hitting Connally. But sceptics call this fanciful and dubbed it “the magic bullet theory”. Instead this group believe there was more than one shooter and that the fatal shot was fired from a grassy knoll near the route of the motorcade. It has been claimed the FBI orchestrated the killing.

Other theories centre on who might have paid Oswald and given him orders. Culprits include the Soviet Union, Cuba and the Mafia. Vice-president Lyndon B Johnson, who was sworn in as president after Kennedy’s death, has also been accused with some suggesting he wanted to cover-up scandals or take control of the country in a coup. (Hodge & Rogers, 2019)