The Commissions
This official body, chaired by a Chief Justice of the United States, was created by Executive Order 11130 to investigate the assassination in 1963.
What is the Warren Commission?
He was identified by both investigations as the man who fired three shots from the Texas School Book Depository.
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
This was the make and caliber of the bolt-action military rifle found on the sixth floor of the Depository building.
What is a 6.5-millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano?
This amateur motion picture was used by both investigations to calculate the speed of the limousine and the timing of the shots.
What is the Zapruder Film?
Both investigations concluded that the shots which hit the President were fired from this specific location.
What is the southeast corner window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository?
Established in 1976, this committee conducted a full study into the assassinations of both JFK and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)?
Seven weeks before the assassination, Oswald traveled to this city to visit the Cuban and Soviet Embassies.
What is Mexico City?
This controversial theory posits that one bullet caused all the non-fatal wounds to both the President and Governor Connally.
What is the Magic Bullet Theory?
This percentage probability was assigned by HSCA experts to the finding of a second gunman in Dealey Plaza.
What is 95 percent?
This location of the President's autopsy, which was not in the same state as that of the murder.
What is The Bethesda Naval Hospital?
This President of the United States mandated the first official investigation to ensure the truth was ascertained amidst numerous rumors and theories.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
This Dallas nightclub owner fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Police Department on live television.
Who was Jack Ruby?
According to the Warren Report, this many shots were fired in total during the assassination.
What is three?
This crucial piece of medical evidence went missing from the National Archives in 1966, sparking decades of mystery.
What is President Kennedy's brain?
In 1967, New Orleans DA Jim Garrison put this man on trial for conspiracy to murder the President of the United States.
Who is Clay Shaw (alias Clay Bertrand)?
The HSCA concluded its work in 1979, finding that Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of" this.
What is a conspiracy?
Shortly before the assassination, Oswald walked into the Dallas FBI office and asked to speak with this agent.
Who is James Hosty?
The HSCA based its conspiracy finding on acoustical evidence suggesting a second gunman was located here.
What is the Grassy Knoll?
According to the autopsy, this section of the President's skull marked the location of the primary head trauma.
What is the occipital protuberance?
One conspiracy theory believes that it was this CIA operation that brought the federal government and organized crime together in an effort to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba.
What is Operation Mongoose?
This Representative from Ohio served as the chairman of the HSCA during the final phase of its investigation.
Who was Louis Stokes?
In a letter he wrote, Oswald admitted speaking with this former KGB agent while visiting the Soviet Embassy in the fall of 1963.
Who is Valery Kostikov?
This Governor of Texas was seated in front of Kennedy and sustained serious injuries to his back, chest, wrist, and thigh.
Who was John B. Connally?
Due to the performance of this life-saving medical procedure by the surgeons at Parkland Memorial Hospital, the wound to the President's throat was altered prior to the autopsy.
What is a tracheostomy?
It was the secretly promised U.S. removal of Jupiter missiles from this nation that eventually defused The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
What is Turkey?