Ghosts of Dallas

Within a few years of its appearance in 1964, the Warren Report had become a joke, a punchline. And the funniest thing about it, according to the critics, was the Single-Bullet Theory: the idea that a single bullet fired by Oswald had gone through both President Kennedy and Governor John Connally. The conspiracy theorists had a name for this bullet. They called it the Magic Bullet, because they believed that no bullet in the real world could possibly have behaved the way the Warren Commission said this bullet had behaved. If the conspiracy theorists were right to believe that, then the whole Warren Report was a fiction. If on the other hand the Warren Commission was right about the single bullet, that would tell us something important about conspiracy theory. It would tell us that the conspiratorial worldview is too limited and one-dimensional, and that it fails to grasp how rich and surprising the world can sometimes be. If a single bullet did go through both Kennedy and Connally, then reality itself is more magical than conspiracy theorists are capable of imagining …

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On the afternoon of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Abraham Zapruder shot the most famous home movie ever made. Was the proof of a JFK conspiracy concealed somewhere in the Zapruder film's 486 frames? After watching the film over and over, one young investigator became sure that he'd stumbled on the secret of Kennedy's murder. Oswald couldn't possibly have acted alone. There had to have been a second gunman. The proof of it was right there on film ... 

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When John F. Kennedy arrived in the Emergency Room of Parkland Memorial Hospital at 12:40 on the afternoon of his assassination, he had two visible wounds on his body. One of them was a small neat hole in the center of his throat. "It looked like an entrance wound," one of the surgeons who treated him told the press later that afternoon. Asked which direction the bullet had come from, he said: "It appeared to be coming at him." Two more of the emergency surgeons shared that view. But hadn't Kennedy been shot from behind, by Oswald, hunched over in his perch on the 6th floor of the Book Depository? If the throat wound was an entrance wound, the official story about the assassination was in deep trouble. As one reporter wrote at the time, "The question that suggests itself is, how could the President have been shot in the front from the back?"      

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A week after the Kennedy assassination, President Lyndon Johnson established the Warren Commission, a blue-ribbon Presidential Commission that aimed to get to the bottom of the crime. Right from the start, the Commission found itself fighting a losing battle on two fronts. On one side of it were the early conspiracy theorists, led by the opportunistic New York lawyer Mark Lane. On the other side was the FBI, led by the devious and relentless J. Edgar Hoover ...

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In light of what we know about Jack Ruby's movements on the morning of November 24, 1963, is it remotely plausible that he was involved in ANY kind of conspiracy to murder Oswald? If not, why he do it? What was the state of Ruby's mental health at the time he shot Oswald? Given the clear evidence that Ruby became a "grossly delusional" man while serving his sentence for murdering Oswald, is it possible that his mental decline had already begun at the time of the Kennedy assassination?

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Lee Harvey Oswald was shot dead in police custody on the morning of November 24, 1963, less than 48 hours after the assassination of President Kennedy. Oswald's murder was broadcast live on TV; around 80 million eyewitnesses saw it happen. The killer was a 52-year-old Dallas nightclub owner named Jack Ruby. Who was Ruby? Why did he shoot Oswald? Ruby is the Wild Card in the Kennedy assassination story. Maybe he's the single best card the conspiracy theorists have to play. Or maybe he's the second Joker in the pack: the second lone assassin who brings the whole conspiratorial house of cards crashing down ...

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“His basic desire was to get to Cuba by any means, and all the rest of it was window dressing for that purpose.” That was how Lee Harvey Oswald’s wife Marina described the five turbulent months that she and husband spent living in New Orleans between April and September of 1963. How strong, exactly, was Oswald’s desire to get to Cuba? When Marina said he was ready to get there “by any means”, what did she mean? Was there anything Oswald wouldn’t do in pursuit of his Cuban fantasies? If we want to understand why Oswald shot Kennedy on November 22, 1963, the five months he spent in New Orleans provide the final piece of the puzzle.

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Why did Lee Harvey Oswald murder JFK? Can his psychological motives be disentangled from his political ones? 

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At 7.52am on Friday, November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald arrived for work at the Texas Schoolbook Depository, carrying a long, narrow, heavy-looking object that was wrapped up in brown paper …

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A conspiracy, or did he act alone? An introduction to Lee Harvey Oswald: Marxist, defector, wife-beater, street activist, would-be plane hijacker, and attempted murderer of a prominent Texan "fascist"... 

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