John F. Kennedy

:JFK redirects here. For other uses, see JFK (disambiguation).

Assassination and aftermath

President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963 at 12:30 pm CST while on a political trip through Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged at 7:00 pm for killing a Dallas policeman by "murder with malice", and also charged at 11:30 pm for the murder of the president (there being no charge of "assassination" of a president at that time). Oswald was fatally shot less than two days later in the basement of the Dallas police station by Jack Ruby. Five days after Oswald was killed, the new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, created the Warren Commission, chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination. The Warren Commission, as well the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970s, concluded that Oswald was the assassin. However, critics contend that Oswald did not act alone or was not involved at all and was framed and have proposed a number of conspiracy theories which contradict the government's official account. Among the most widely posited conspirators in the assassination are the CIA, the mafia, the KGB,and Fidel Castro, Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and some sort of military-industrial complex led by U.S. Army Generals.

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Dallas, Texas - November 22 - 1963 - CST - Lee Harvey Oswald - Jack Ruby - Lyndon B. Johnson - Warren Commission - Earl Warren - House Select Committee on Assassinations - Conspiracy theories - CIA - Mafia - KGB - Fidel Castro - Lyndon Baines Johnson

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