The murder of the US president left millions convinced their government lied and covered up. Decades on, it continues to twist the truth about everything from Covid to G5 to Trump’s defeat at the polls
n 22 November 2021, a crowd of 100 or so people gathered in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, the site of John F Kennedy’s assassination 58 years before. They were convinced that JFK’s son,Jr, was about to return, to take his place as vice-president alongside a reinstated Donald Trump, to battle the satanic paedophile cabal that had taken over Washington. Some even waved “Trump-Kennedy 2024” banners.
Part of the reason the assassination was so different – so disturbing, so conspiracy-theory-friendly – was that, on the face of it, events just didn’t add up. How could it be possible that Oswald, an apparent nobody with an old sniper rifle, had pulled off such a crime single-handedly? The Warren commission, investigating the assassination, ruled out other possibilities in 1964, but rather than putting the issue to bed it only fuelled more questions.
Indeed, conjecture about the assassination became a national pastime. The elements of the mystery became part of the language: the grassy knoll, the magic bullet, the second shooter.
Nevertheless, the public lapped it up. JFK became a hit, earning more than $200m worldwide and winning several awards, including two Oscars. Its impact prompted the 1992, which directed the US’s national archive office to collect all official records of the assassination and release them to the public, although some documents were not revealed
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