Who Killed Kennedy?
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, it threw the nation into shock. During the assassinations of President James Garfield in 1881 and President William McKinley in 1901, many people saw both the shooting and the shooter. But during the Kennedy assassination, although many people lining the street on that unusually warm late-November day saw the president get shot in the head, no one saw the shooter.
The man accused of assassinating Kennedy was himself murdered on live national television two days later by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby. It is not surprising that this raised the possibility of a wider conspiracy.
(It should be noted that the term “conspiracy theory” has come to mean an absurd assertion with no evidence. Because most of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination involve questions about whether there was a second shooter firing at the president from behind a picket fence behind a “grassy knoll,” the term “grassy knoll” is almost synonymous with “conspiracy theory.”)
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