Was the Assassination a Conspiracy or the Act of a Lone Gunman?

 

President Lyndon B. Johnson 1971

 

In 1971, the retired president gave an interview to Leo Sands of the Atlantic Monthly. At that time he said,

“The assassination in Dallas had been part of a conspiracy. I have never believed that Oswald acted alone.”

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Congressional Committee 1978

In 1978 a Congressional committee investigating the assassination of President Kennedy, issued a report in September of that year which concluded:

 

“We believe, and the facts strongly suggest, that President Kennedy was assassinated as the direct result of a conspiracy…”

 

Life (magazine) 1966: On November 25, 1966, Life magazine editors issued the following statement:

 

“One conclusion is inescapable: the national interest deserves clear resolution of the doubts. A new investigating body should be set up, perhaps at the initiative of Congress. In a scrupulously objective and unhurried atmosphere, without the pressure to give assurance to a shocked country, it should reexamine the evidence and consider other evidence the Warren Commission failed to evaluate.”