John F Kennedy assassination has been described as "the mother of all conspiracies".
Events :
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by gunshot while traveling in a motorcade in an open top limousine in Dallas, Texas at 12:30 pm CST on Friday, November 22, 1963.
Within two hours, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for killing Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit.
On Saturday, November 23, Oswald was also accused of murdering President Kennedy.
On Sunday, November 24, Mafia associated nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald as he was being transferred from the city jail to the county jail.
Source: History.com
Conspiracies:
Many people suspected that the assassination was part of a larger plot.
Broadcasters speculated that Dallas right wingers were involved.
Thomas Buchanan's book ‘Who Killed Kennedy?’ published in May 1964 has been credited as the first book to allege a conspiracy.
According to Vincent Bugliosi 1,000 to 2000 books had been written about the Kennedy assassination.
Ninety five percent of which are supporting the view that there was a conspiracy.
A total of 42 groups, 82 assassins and 214 people had been accused at one time or another in various conspiracy theories.
Conspiracies accused:
The CIA
Mafia
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro
The KGB and many more.
In addition to Oswald, Jerome Kroth has named 26 people as "Possible Assassins". They include:
Orlando Bosch
James Files
Desmond Fitzgerald
Charles Harrelson
Gerry Hemming
Chauncey Holt
Howard Hunt
Charles Nicoletti
Charles Rogers
Johnny Roselli
Lucien Sarti
Frank Sturgis
Public opinion:
2003, Gallup Poll reported that 75% of Americans do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.
2003, ABC News poll found that 70% of respondents suspected that the assassination involved more than one person.
2004 Fox News poll noted that 66% of Americans thought there had been a conspiracy while 74% believed that there was a cover up.
2009, CBS News poll found that 76% believed the President had been killed as the result of a conspiracy.
2013, Gallup Poll found that 61% of Americans believed that other people besides Oswald were involved.
These conspiracies have made the assassination of President Kennedy as one of the most conspired events of the world.
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