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Lee Harvey Oswald

Cop Handcuffed To Lee Harvey Oswald, Recalls Infamous Shooting

AP | JAMIE STENGLE | Posted 05.14.2013 | Crime

DALLAS -- The man in the cowboy hat seen handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald in the iconic photo of Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby was honored Tuesday for...

Never-Before-Seen JFK Artifacts Coming To The Newseum

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.11.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON — Some never-before-seen artifacts from the minutes and hours following President John F. Kennedy's assassination are going on displa...

Hitting the Road: Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Kevin Ryan | Posted 05.08.2013 | Fifty
Kevin Ryan

From behind a thick plate of glass, I looked at the sniper position, shielded by stacks of book boxes. This was recreated according to photographs taken in 1963. It was strange standing there. A few feet from ground zero, I felt like the stacked boxes still hid the shooter and the truth about what happened.

Did Lee Harvey Oswald Act Alone? Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn Set Up? Edward Jay Epstein Investigates

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.06.2013 | Books
Jesse Kornbluth

I met Edward Jay Epstein in 1965, a lifetime ago. He was researching a book about the Kennedy assassination. I wondered why. Wasn't JFK killed by Lee ...

JFK Assassin's Apartment Demolished

AP | NOMAAN MERCHANT | Posted 03.16.2013 | Politics

DALLAS — A handful of history buffs and curious onlookers watched Monday as a bulldozer tore through the walls of a dilapidated apartment buildi...

John Brennan and the CIA's Last JFK Secrets

Jefferson Morley | Posted 03.13.2013 | Politics
Jefferson Morley

The overarching issue at stake in Brennan's confirmation is official secrecy in the name of national security. Do the White House and national security agencies acknowledge limits on their powers of official secrecy? The JFK assassination story provides a useful benchmark in this debate.

Lee Harvey Oswald's Apartment Being Demolished

AP | JAMIE STENGLE | Posted 11.30.2012 | Crime

DALLAS -- A dilapidated Dallas apartment complex where Lee Harvey Oswald briefly lived before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is being ...

Who Killed JFK -- Part One

David Fearnhead | Posted 01.27.2013 | Media
David Fearnhead

One of the common misconceptions of the Kennedy assassination is that we would, by now, have heard the true story. The fact is many witnesses have gone on record, and continue to do so.

Major Author Headlines 50th Anniversary JFK Ceremony

AP | JAMIE STENGLE | Posted 01.20.2013 | Politics

DALLAS — The city of Dallas will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy next year with a ceremony featuring...

Chipper Jones: JFK Conspiracy Theorist

The Huffington Post | Kavitha A. Davidson | Posted 01.30.2013 | Sports

It seems that since his retirement from baseball, Chipper Jones has used his downtime to brush up on historical conspiracy theories. The former Atl...

Former Kennedy, Johnson Aide Dies

AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 07.09.2012 | Politics

TRENTON, N.J. — While researching his epic series on Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro found himself again and again calling upon Nicholas deB. Katzen...

Fidel Castro Had Prior Knowledge Of JFK Assassination, New Book Claims

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.19.2012 | Politics

A new book by a former CIA analyst provides evidence that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro may have had prior knowledge of President John F. Kennedy’s as...

Can We Give Those Conspiracy Theories a Rest?

David Macaray | Posted 03.25.2012 | Politics
David Macaray

We don't always need a proportionately grandiose theory to explain a grandiose act. Sometimes momentous things get done by dreary, ordinary people.

Stephen King And Errol Morris Talk JFK's Assassination

artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | Posted 01.11.2012 | Fifty

In the Nov. 13 issue of the Book Review, the documentarian Errol Morris reviews Stephen King's new novel, "11/22/63." The book, like the film Morris i...

Oswald by Dennis Richard: Anatomy of an Interrogation

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 09.13.2011 | Arts
Melody Breyer-Grell

The thing I respect most about Dennis Richard's play, Oswald is the fact that I did not know what the author's personal opinion of the events were.

Guns and Poses

George Heymont | Posted 08.23.2011 | Arts
George Heymont

Two recent Bay Area productions placed guns in the hands of their actors. While the weapons they used may have shot blanks, their playwrights did not.

Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin Put Up For Auction

AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

LOS ANGELES — A ghoulish piece of American history is now up for sale to the highest bidder. The modest wooden coffin in which John F. Kennedy's...

I Slept in Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin

Stephen J. Gertz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Stephen J. Gertz

The possibility was irresistible. The request graciously accepted, I prepared for bedtime; I took out a book to read, a rare book.

My Day in Dealey Plaza: Why JFK Was Killed by a Lone Assassin

Michael Shermer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michael Shermer

Is it really necessary to invent additional assassins of John F. Kennedy when it is obvious that one could have done the job? No. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. QED.

Did LSD Kill JFK?

Tim Kring | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Tim Kring

Encompassed in the televised killing of Lee Harvey Oswald is the DNA for why I wanted to tell the story contained in the novel Shift.

Dartmouth Scientist says Oswald rifle photo real

AP | HOLLY RAMER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

CONCORD, N.H. — The infamous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle in his backyard would have been nearly impossible to fake, accordin...

Stephen Harper Fake Assassination Photo: Canadian Liberals Apologize For Posting Pic

Posted 05.25.2011 | World

The Liberal Party of Canada has been forced to apologize after showing a fake picture of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper being assassinated...

Annals of Unsolved Crime: The Oswald Mystery

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Edward Jay Epstein

The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.

The Secret of Conspiracy

Michael Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Michael Kaplan

Just as we want our success to be the result of skill, not luck, we prefer to be the victims of conspiracy rather than chance.

What Will Someday Come to Pass

Craig Crawford | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Craig Crawford

The saddest thing about Teddy's burial at Arlington on Saturday is that there were no brothers left to say what he said for RFK.