# Who was behind the JFK assassination?

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### claim_3400e5d62b5ac33a1aa103b7

Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit was shot at approximately 1:15 p.m. on November 22, 1963.
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### 2025–2026 Releases

2025–2026 Releases
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### President Kennedy's Assassination

President Kennedy's Assassination
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#### claim_73121d2ba5f62c17acbd794f

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.
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#### claim_883557528ee63c5c82f6df77

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.
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#### claim_d036a1f62e960f30896f5bf2

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.
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##### claim_159d86cef7bae132e4aeb6b8

Morley testified that he had found no pre-assassination intelligence showing that the CIA or FBI knew Oswald intended to kill Kennedy.
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##### claim_258249d84b34f76b3647e488

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.
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##### claim_2aeb23c474dd1fc0770ce697

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.
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##### claim_495b901da1cc2c114bac3a9d

Texas Governor John Connally was seriously wounded while riding in the jump seat ahead of President Kennedy during the assassination.
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##### claim_6a9e30f751afaaa8ba12284f

The CIA officials did not inform the Warren Commission about CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro.
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##### claim_6a9eec4b9aec8ff517e5da44

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.
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##### claim_8166edd66a79b54cb6d94b0e

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.
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##### claim_8749a96e3664800477cb059e

President Lyndon Johnson created the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy by Executive Order 11130 on November 29, 1963.
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##### claim_aec653c3e86bc7636e569cfb

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.”
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##### claim_d65f8ebda501b95a0287a902

The FBI initially withheld from the Warren Commission an entry in Oswald’s notebook containing an FBI agent’s name, address, and telephone number.
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##### claim_ddc01a44745132ae045ae61e

President Kennedy was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital at 1:00 p.m. on November 22, 1963.
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###### claim_16678f23c96d2df7917dbe18

The Warren Commission's report was delivered on September 24, 1964.
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###### claim_42a7aa85586e6f72dbabb89e

Morley's conclusion that the discrepancy in Angleton's testimony constitutes a prosecutable lie is an interpretation, not an adjudicated fact.
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###### claim_46db0daba9c049e4e79cb3e1

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.
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###### claim_5ff8f339a79d72dc50f1abcd

The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy was chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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###### claim_632ed845291a2a422eb59094

Lee Harvey Oswald was 24 years old at the time of his arrest.
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###### claim_6b5f8a4f8c6256ac5ab9d291

Morley inferred that Kennedy’s enemies high in the government, “probably CIA and Pentagon,” were the “intellectual author” of the assassination.
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###### claim_797927085409dad812bed4d0

Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963, in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.
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###### claim_cad380e984d96c8bbcd82048

When asked who fired the shots, Morley answered: “I do not know.”
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###### claim_cf019f580063d1289ee71807

According to Morley, the CIA began opening or intercepting Oswald-family correspondence on November 9, 1959, and copies reached Angleton’s staff by 1962.
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###### claim_d8d3f3571937a29fe5714153

Richard Helms later explained that the Warren Commission had not specifically asked about CIA operations.
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###### claim_e0addfc3e30f1d1c1ab457e0

The HSCA rejected Helms' explanation, stating that investigators could not specifically request information about operations whose existence the CIA had concealed.
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###### claim_14f5af0b8c06acf8d49ee0db

The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy.
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###### claim_2fe1e5b0cf9a4d08a53fd975

The Warren Commission's final meeting occurred on September 18, 1964, six days before the report's delivery.
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###### claim_31385d1814e578804fa016a1

Exactly 300 days elapsed between the creation of the Warren Commission (November 29, 1963) and the delivery of its report (September 24, 1964).
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###### claim_4e9a563e08af383d24786534

The 888-page Warren Commission report was formally presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House on September 24, 1964.
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###### claim_5067efebd9e6c12365dfdb47

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.
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###### claim_50a0acda9fb08f24014be0c0

Warren Commission member Senator Richard Russell missed the September 24 presentation ceremony of the report.
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###### claim_6257821294938a579dfcd83e

The underlying evidence for the Warren Commission report was published as 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits, released in November 1964.
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###### claim_6cd4397950e4d48c938442c1

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.
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###### claim_740b74cbc460f63234f5124c

Staff lawyers for the Warren Commission were reportedly still writing key chapters in the final weeks before the report's delivery.
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###### claim_85334ce91e757d99d97684ff

The full Warren Commission report and 26 volumes of hearings are hosted by the National Archives.
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###### claim_8a148b7ec68c30903d94c722

The New York Times published a full summary and extensive excerpts of the Warren Commission report on September 28, 1964.
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###### claim_8eb12d0d3c0aa579f6db9ada

Executive Order 11130 established the Warren Commission's mandate on November 29, 1963.
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###### claim_b2f7f58edec60847a57da8e8

All seven members of the Warren Commission attended the Oval Office ceremony where the report was presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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###### claim_b75f88eaa2688fbb45381e31

Lee Harvey Oswald was never tried, and no judicial determination of his guilt occurred.
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###### claim_d64bc689a72fefe3cf48e1a2

Newspapers received embargoed advance copies of the Warren Commission report.
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###### claim_f67e4b6b3c66e8575727462f

The Warren Commission sought and received extensions for its report, pushing completion into late September.
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###### claim_f86c85554e1b132fd782499a

The 26 volumes of Warren Commission hearings and exhibits included 15 volumes of testimony and 11 volumes of exhibits.
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###### claim_fce30816f14278485a4715f8

President Johnson initially requested the Warren Commission report by approximately June 1964, before the 1964 election season.
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###### claim_00efa08bf48a6ed15deedb07

The Warren Commission concluded that Jack Ruby also acted alone.
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###### claim_01547076849466f519037495

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.
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###### claim_0a5c8962931649ea0a1ef4c9

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.
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###### claim_1d04145cf169de86200d29cc

The Warren Commission found no credible evidence that Oswald was a member of any foreign or domestic conspiracy.
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###### claim_31500dfb918cdf448ffee7e6

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.
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###### claim_37068c6b9a7e57c26f0044ea

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.
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###### claim_3b71fff487415829c14f1fe0

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.
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###### claim_41560d921d729d877c104312

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.
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###### claim_4be35a7c79027f6afd44f0c2

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.
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###### claim_593cc0d3270d003cc4c9d710

The Warren Commission found no evidence that either Lee Harvey Oswald or Jack Ruby was part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign.
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###### claim_d55ee9317e40592da7ebf341

A Gallup poll taken in late November 1963, days after the assassination, found that only 29% of Americans believed Oswald acted on his own.
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###### claim_d6fe65595004e79d03b26fe5

The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the sixth-floor southeast corner window of the Texas School Book Depository.
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###### claim_d892583e477f44b157161904

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.
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###### claim_ddc9fb6a2435138dcc8ba5fd

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.
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###### claim_eefd7867ca79f71bc7a91c2e

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.
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###### claim_f82d193ffe8bf65f3fbd6024

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.
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###### claim_feef074a3f125ab6f0bd0d89

Chapter 1 of the Warren Commission report also states that to determine the motives for the assassination, one must look to the assassin himself.
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###### claim_0322d36a586eb197957f837f

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.
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###### claim_06b29e272ca6a7359775d32e

The Warren Commission stated that proving negatives was inherently difficult and that possible involvement by others with Ruby could not be “established categorically.”
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###### claim_199e19f92f31274c4886c77e

Lee Harvey Oswald used a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, according to the Warren Commission.
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###### claim_1bf27342bbe726407ab3813f

The "single bullet" finding was the most contested internal point within the Warren Commission.
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###### claim_4b72033ad95663c6dd32ccfd

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.
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###### claim_5f4a886f53bfd889017c73a8

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.
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###### claim_7ed1e9d8ab68d9d634e63a0e

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.”
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###### claim_89d0966dd58f03ab72c522ab

The HSCA concluded that Jack Ruby’s act of shooting Oswald was not spontaneous and involved “at least some premeditation.”
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###### claim_9502af8b9243823c48dd7f0f

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.
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###### claim_997c6e2d473bcb9cb4265264

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.
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###### claim_aab8735c19dd1852637cc98b

The "single bullet" proposition was largely developed by staff lawyer Arlen Specter, who later became a U.S. Senator.
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###### claim_b60e8002499fc0aa950e98a4

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.
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###### claim_c0b4e6f34a2bdd106bb3b269

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.
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###### claim_d024ed72afa805fd5e7eb6fc

The HSCA found it less likely that Jack Ruby gained access to the police basement without assistance.
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###### claim_dccbf035f4096875817f028a

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.
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###### claim_e8d8295a9a1d0c9b7da5cb0f

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.
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###### claim_face87e985bc1d92da0b652c

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.
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###### claim_018f698e5ab9a2e0f6ead25f

Photographs were found showing Oswald holding the rifle in his backyard.
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###### claim_07d00ededa1bf8691dc7095c

Forensic analysis supported the authenticity of the photographs showing Oswald holding the rifle in his backyard.
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###### claim_192c72decd94f3b3acce0934

The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald used a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to assassinate President Kennedy.
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###### claim_297e38e6f9f753b489a00a59

Oswald claimed the photographs of him holding the rifle in his backyard were fakes.
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###### claim_2d34322b64cc74e101602e92

The Warren Commission found no credible evidence linking Oswald to any foreign or domestic conspiracies.
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###### claim_3e1a7408947cf3f0dce0e43d

Critics have raised issues about the accuracy and condition of the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, questioning its capability for the precise shooting attributed to Oswald.
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###### claim_49f46d19f4b9399931b5304f

All Warren Commission members agreed that the shots came from the sixth-floor Depository window.
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###### claim_6966ac639062513b11db2a15

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.
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###### claim_9f75ec948aed44232e54f3ab

The Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was delivered to a post office box rented by Oswald.
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###### claim_a4a8e0b9d48618f41cada73e

Oswald had undergone rifle training in the Marine Corps and achieved a sharpshooter rating.
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###### claim_a74b76526b9dc9c851278254

Tests showed the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle could achieve the necessary accuracy despite doubts raised by critics.
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###### claim_aae309e7d15790d811843899

Witnesses saw Oswald with a package he claimed contained 'curtain rods,' which matched the disassembled length of the rifle.
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###### claim_b85b16a3af40f129b6c07d13

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.
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###### claim_c1112773692bbf894e7b4549

Oswald purchased the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle using the alias 'A. Hidell'.
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###### claim_cc7ebbdbca73eec1345d9196

The National Academy of Sciences later contested the acoustical evidence considered by the HSCA regarding a second gunman.
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###### claim_cebab7f215d27dc76541530c

The 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.
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###### claim_d0c5ca3b45a6b9a99f74e24b

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.
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###### claim_deddd519fb36cf9ad10b2b7a

Lee Harvey Oswald was employed at the Texas School Book Depository.
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###### claim_e3f00fe154cced120c32ed0e

Oswald's rifle skills were later described as average, despite his sharpshooter rating in the Marine Corps.
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###### claim_f291fa5d4e73814c4e4896d5

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.”
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###### claim_f6c350aba78b6646ca455d83

The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) considered acoustical evidence indicating a possible second gunman in the assassination.
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###### claim_fc62e4b56741514fbacff11f

Ballistic evidence, including bullets and shell casings recovered from the scene, matched the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.
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