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claim_3400e5d62b5ac33a1aa103b7
Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit was shot at approximately 1:15 p.m. on November 22, 1963.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
2025–2026 Releases
2025–2026 Releases
Labels: Inferred, Low
President Kennedy's Assassination
President Kennedy's Assassination
Labels: Inferred, Low
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Large releases of information in 2025–2026 materially strengthen evidence that the CIA and FBI knew substantially more about Lee Harvey Oswald before November 22, 1963, than early official accounts suggested.
Labels: Source-linked, High
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The 2025–2026 releases do not contain a verified operational order, payment trail, participant confession corroborated by records, or physical evidence identifying a sponsor for the JFK assassination.
Labels: Inferred, High
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President John F. Kennedy was shot at approximately 12:30 p.m. CST on November 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Morley testified that he had found no pre-assassination intelligence showing that the CIA or FBI knew Oswald intended to kill Kennedy.
Labels: Source-linked, High
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The note from Oswald to Agent Hosty reportedly contained a threat or warning and was destroyed, reportedly flushed down a toilet, within hours of Oswald’s murder.
Labels: Source-linked, High
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Morley testified that Richard Helms, James Angleton, and George Joannides were “responsible for, or complicit in” Kennedy’s death, framing it as either criminal negligence or covert action.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Texas Governor John Connally was seriously wounded while riding in the jump seat ahead of President Kennedy during the assassination.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The CIA officials did not inform the Warren Commission about CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Journalist Jefferson Morley alleged in 2025 congressional testimony that a newly unredacted 1978 HSCA transcript shows CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton gave false sworn testimony about CIA surveillance of Oswald’s correspondence while Oswald lived in the Soviet Union.
Labels: Source-linked, High
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Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository, was arrested about 80 minutes after the assassination in the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff.
Labels: Inferred, High
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President Lyndon Johnson created the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy by Executive Order 11130 on November 29, 1963.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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Morley described the fully declassified pre-assassination Oswald file as 198 pages, contradicting Richard Helms’s 1964 sworn characterization of the CIA’s prior information as “minimal.”
Labels: Source-linked, High
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The FBI initially withheld from the Warren Commission an entry in Oswald’s notebook containing an FBI agent’s name, address, and telephone number.
Labels: Source-linked, High
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President Kennedy was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital at 1:00 p.m. on November 22, 1963.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The Warren Commission's report was delivered on September 24, 1964.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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Morley's conclusion that the discrepancy in Angleton's testimony constitutes a prosecutable lie is an interpretation, not an adjudicated fact.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Members of the Warren Commission included Senators Richard Russell and John Sherman Cooper, Representatives Hale Boggs and Gerald Ford, former CIA Director Allen Dulles, and John J. McCloy.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy was chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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Lee Harvey Oswald was 24 years old at the time of his arrest.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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Morley inferred that Kennedy’s enemies high in the government, “probably CIA and Pentagon,” were the “intellectual author” of the assassination.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963, in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.
Labels: Inferred, High
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When asked who fired the shots, Morley answered: “I do not know.”
Labels: Inferred, High
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According to Morley, the CIA began opening or intercepting Oswald-family correspondence on November 9, 1959, and copies reached Angleton’s staff by 1962.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Richard Helms later explained that the Warren Commission had not specifically asked about CIA operations.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The HSCA rejected Helms' explanation, stating that investigators could not specifically request information about operations whose existence the CIA had concealed.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The Warren Commission's final meeting occurred on September 18, 1964, six days before the report's delivery.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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Exactly 300 days elapsed between the creation of the Warren Commission (November 29, 1963) and the delivery of its report (September 24, 1964).
Labels: Inferred, Low
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The 888-page Warren Commission report was formally presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House on September 24, 1964.
Labels: Source-linked, Low
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Senator Richard Russell had serious reservations about the Warren Commission report, as evidenced by his December 1970 letter and a private dissent on September 16, 1964.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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Warren Commission member Senator Richard Russell missed the September 24 presentation ceremony of the report.
Labels: Source-linked, Low
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The underlying evidence for the Warren Commission report was published as 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits, released in November 1964.
Labels: Source-linked, Low
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The Warren Commission report was not publicly released on September 24, 1964, but was released to the public three days later on September 27, 1964.
Labels: Source-linked, Low
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Staff lawyers for the Warren Commission were reportedly still writing key chapters in the final weeks before the report's delivery.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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The full Warren Commission report and 26 volumes of hearings are hosted by the National Archives.
Labels: Source-linked, Low
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The New York Times published a full summary and extensive excerpts of the Warren Commission report on September 28, 1964.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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Executive Order 11130 established the Warren Commission's mandate on November 29, 1963.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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All seven members of the Warren Commission attended the Oval Office ceremony where the report was presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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Lee Harvey Oswald was never tried, and no judicial determination of his guilt occurred.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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Newspapers received embargoed advance copies of the Warren Commission report.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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The Warren Commission sought and received extensions for its report, pushing completion into late September.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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The 26 volumes of Warren Commission hearings and exhibits included 15 volumes of testimony and 11 volumes of exhibits.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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President Johnson initially requested the Warren Commission report by approximately June 1964, before the 1964 election season.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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The Warren Commission concluded that Jack Ruby also acted alone.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The HSCA agreed that Oswald fired the three shots that struck Kennedy and Connally but could not identify any other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy.
Labels: Contested, Medium
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In a November 20, 1966, Atlanta Constitution interview, Senator Richard B. Russell stated he could accept that Oswald fired the shots but could not agree that Oswald acted alone and could not rule out a conspiracy.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The Warren Commission found no credible evidence that Oswald was a member of any foreign or domestic conspiracy.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The 1982 NAS Committee on Ballistic Acoustics found that the impulses attributed to shots in the HSCA acoustic analyses were recorded about one minute after the assassination.
Labels: Contested, High
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In Appendix 12, the Warren Commission stated that, lacking Oswald’s testimony, it had to painstakingly reconstruct facts leading to the conclusion that Oswald assassinated President Kennedy alone and without advice or assistance.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The Warren Commission qualified its “acted alone” finding by stating that proving negatives to a certainty is difficult, and any evidence of others involved with Oswald or Ruby was beyond the reach of US investigative agencies and had not come to the Commission's attention.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The Foreword of the Warren Commission Report states that each member of the Commission carefully considered the entire report and concurred in its findings and conclusions, presenting the lone-assassin conclusion as unanimous.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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A 1982 National Academy of Sciences Committee on Ballistic Acoustics unanimously found that the HSCA acoustic analyses of the Dallas police Dictabelt do not demonstrate a grassy knoll shot.
Labels: Contested, High
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The Warren Commission found no evidence that either Lee Harvey Oswald or Jack Ruby was part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign.
Labels: Inferred, High
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A Gallup poll taken in late November 1963, days after the assassination, found that only 29% of Americans believed Oswald acted on his own.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the sixth-floor southeast corner window of the Texas School Book Depository.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The Warren Commission's conclusion depended on the proposition that one bullet (Commission Exhibit 399, the "magic bullet") passed through Kennedy's neck and caused all of Connally's wounds.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Senator Richard B. Russell, a member of the Warren Commission, dictated a private dissenting statement on September 16, 1964, which was not published with the Report.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) 1979 Final Report concluded that scientific acoustical evidence indicates a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy.
Labels: Contested, High
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Senator Richard B. Russell's private dissenting statement argued that suspicious circumstances and insufficient evidence prevented a conclusive determination that Oswald acted alone, without knowledge, encouragement, or assistance from others.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Chapter 1 of the Warren Commission report also states that to determine the motives for the assassination, one must look to the assassin himself.
Labels: Inferred, Low
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that eyewitness testimony refuted the Main Street ramp theory for Ruby's entry and judged that he probably entered through an alley and stairway route instead.
Labels: Contested, High
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The Warren Commission stated that proving negatives was inherently difficult and that possible involvement by others with Ruby could not be “established categorically.”
Labels: Inferred, High
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Lee Harvey Oswald used a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, according to the Warren Commission.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The "single bullet" finding was the most contested internal point within the Warren Commission.
Labels: Contested, High
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The HSCA found that Jack Ruby had a significant number of direct and indirect contacts with underworld figures, including people connected to La Cosa Nostra leaders and the Dallas criminal world.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The Warren Commission concluded that Jack Ruby entered the police basement unaided, probably through the Main Street automobile ramp, only minutes before he shot Oswald.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The Warren Commission concluded its Ruby analysis by stating that “the evidence is persuasive that he acted independently in shooting Oswald,” rather than using the exact categorical phrase “Ruby acted alone.”
Labels: Inferred, High
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The HSCA concluded that Jack Ruby’s act of shooting Oswald was not spontaneous and involved “at least some premeditation.”
Labels: Contested, High
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The HSCA did not identify a person who knowingly conspired with Jack Ruby to murder Oswald, nor did it conclusively place Ruby inside the conspiracy it believed probably killed Kennedy.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The HSCA judged that Jack Ruby’s one-day Havana-to-Miami-and-back journey was probably courier activity for gambling interests, although it did not connect that activity directly to either murder in 1963.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The "single bullet" proposition was largely developed by staff lawyer Arlen Specter, who later became a U.S. Senator.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The HSCA found that Jack Ruby’s suspicious telephone calls were generally consistent with attempts to obtain help in a dispute involving the American Guild of Variety Artists and performers at his nightclubs.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Jack Ruby met FBI agent Charles W. Flynn eight times between April and October 1959 after volunteering to provide criminal information, but the FBI closed the potential-informant file because Ruby’s information was of little value.
Labels: Inferred, High
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The HSCA found it less likely that Jack Ruby gained access to the police basement without assistance.
Labels: Contested, High
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The HSCA concluded that Jack Ruby made at least two—and possibly three or more—separate trips to Cuba, based on Cuban tourist cards, immigration records, FBI records, and bank records, which contradicted the Warren Commission's report of one social visit.
Labels: Contested, High
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The HSCA stated that the Warren Commission’s and FBI’s conspiracy investigations were seriously flawed and that the Commission was incorrect in finding no significant associations involving Oswald and Ruby.
Labels: Contested, High
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A Western Union receipt showed that Jack Ruby completed a $25 money transfer at approximately 11:17 a.m., about four minutes before he shot Oswald at approximately 11:21 a.m.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Photographs were found showing Oswald holding the rifle in his backyard.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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Forensic analysis supported the authenticity of the photographs showing Oswald holding the rifle in his backyard.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald used a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to assassinate President Kennedy.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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Oswald claimed the photographs of him holding the rifle in his backyard were fakes.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The Warren Commission found no credible evidence linking Oswald to any foreign or domestic conspiracies.
Labels: Contested, High
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Critics have raised issues about the accuracy and condition of the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, questioning its capability for the precise shooting attributed to Oswald.
Labels: Contested, High
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All Warren Commission members agreed that the shots came from the sixth-floor Depository window.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that while Oswald fired shots, there was a high probability of a conspiracy in President Kennedy's assassination.
Labels: Contested, High
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The Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was delivered to a post office box rented by Oswald.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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Oswald had undergone rifle training in the Marine Corps and achieved a sharpshooter rating.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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Tests showed the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle could achieve the necessary accuracy despite doubts raised by critics.
Labels: Contested, High
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Witnesses saw Oswald with a package he claimed contained 'curtain rods,' which matched the disassembled length of the rifle.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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In a recorded telephone conversation with President Lyndon B. Johnson on the evening of September 18, 1964, Senator Russell stated he did not believe the same bullet hit both Kennedy and Connally, citing Connally’s contrary testimony.
Labels: Inferred, High
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Oswald purchased the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle using the alias 'A. Hidell'.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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The National Academy of Sciences later contested the acoustical evidence considered by the HSCA regarding a second gunman.
Labels: Contested, High
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The 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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Supporters of the single-bullet theory among the Warren Commission members included Chief Justice Earl Warren, Allen Dulles, John J. McCloy, and Gerald Ford, resulting in a roughly 4-3 split on the issue.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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Lee Harvey Oswald was employed at the Texas School Book Depository.
Labels: Inferred, Medium
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Oswald's rifle skills were later described as average, despite his sharpshooter rating in the Marine Corps.
Labels: Contested, Medium
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Senator Cooper affirmed he “held in [his] mind during the life of the Commission that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally” and “there was no evidence to show both men were hit by the same bullet.”
Labels: Source-linked, High
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) considered acoustical evidence indicating a possible second gunman in the assassination.
Labels: Contested, High
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Ballistic evidence, including bullets and shell casings recovered from the scene, matched the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.
Labels: Inferred, Medium