Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...varied reasons-some selfish and financial, others well-intentioned and sincere-dozens of critics have assailed the report and its central findings. Those conclusions were: 1) only one assassin, Oswald, fired the shots in Dallas' Dealey Plaza; 2) there were three shots, and all were fired from behind the two victims, Kennedy and then Texas Governor John Connally, who was seated ahead of the President on a jump seat in a limousine; 3) one bullet missed both men; one passed through Kennedy's neck and Connally's chest and right wrist, stopping in his left thigh...
...famed photo of Oswald with a rifle and a pistol actually Oswald's head imposed on someone else's body...
...Lecturers making this claim often display a LIFE cover (Feb. 21, 1964) of this photo. LIFE'S artists routinely outlined parts of the photo to clarify detail, such as the rifle. Oswald's Soviet-born wife Marina testified that she took two snapshots of this pose. Warren Commission investigators have one of the negatives. Experts testified that beyond doubt it came from Oswald's camera and in no way was doctored...
...probable that Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Oswald, was part of a plot...
...estimated four, a few five), the FBI and the Warren Commission staff at first had also assumed that three separate shots had inflicted the wounds on Kennedy and Connally, though they thought one rifleman could have done all of the shooting. The Zapruder film and the known characteristics of Oswald's rifle forced them to reconsider; this resulted in the theory that a single bullet struck both Kennedy and Connally...