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...high Government officials. The disclosure that some CIA agents schemed with Mafia racketeers to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro has fanned theories about a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. So, too, has the recent admission by the FBI that it secretly destroyed a threatening note from Lee Harvey Oswald, although that reckless act was apparently done only to save the agency from embarrassment. Those facts were withheld from the Warren Commission by both agencies. A Harris Poll, taken in October, shows that 65% of the public believe that the Kennedy assassination was "not the act of one individual, but rather...
...resurgence of conspiracy theories is all the more remarkable because not a single fact linking Oswald with anyone else in a plot has become known in the eleven years since the Warren Commission issued its 888-page summary and 25 accompanying volumes of exhibits and testimony. Headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission included Congressmen Gerald R. Ford and Hale Boggs, Senators Richard B. Russell and John Sherman Cooper, former CIA Director Allen W. Dulles and former Diplomat John J. McCloy. The mass of evidence was gathered over nine months and based on some 25,000 interviews conducted...
...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...