John F. Kennedy assassination

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 PM Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding in a presidential motorcade within Dealey Plaza. He was the fourth U.S. President to be assassinated, and the eighth to die while in office.

Conspiracy theories

Many dispute the conclusion that Oswald was the assassin, claiming he was part of a conspiracy or was not even involved at all. Investigations, scientific testing, and re-creations of the circumstances of Kennedy's death have not, in the American public's view, settled the question of who plotted to kill him. A 2003 ABC TV News poll showed that only 32 percent (plus or minus 3 percent) of Americans who expressed a view believe that Oswald acted alone in the Kennedy assassination http://abcnews.go.com/images/pdf/937a1JFKAssassination.pdf; a Discovery Channel poll revealed that only 21% believe Oswald acted alone. http://poll.discovery.com/servlet/viewsflash?jfk=6&cmd=tally&pollid=jfk&results=data%2Fdsc%2Fpackage%2Fjfk.results.html&submit.x=51&submit.y=6; a History Channel poll gave a figure of 17%. http://www.historychannel.com/jfk/jfk_poll_results.jsp Over the years, scores of conspiracy theories have emerged as to who had been culpable in killing JFK, suspects ranging from an organized crime/CIA cabal, to the oil industry, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Israeli soldiers because of his vow that Israel would "never have Atomic Weapons as long as I'm president," and even suggestions that an ailing Kennedy had deliberately orchestrated his own death.

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