50 years of theories: JFK file release spotlights explanations
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50 years of theories: JFK file release spotlights explanations

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Story highlights Trump issued a memo blocking some of the release The release could breathe oxygen into some of the many competing theories Washington CNN — President John F. Kennedy’s death gave birth to decades of competing theories – and a mountain of government paperwork. The Warren Commission report continues to face heavy skepticism from people advocating alternative theories, and a poll taken around the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination showed the majority believed more than one person was involved, showing popular suspicion for the idea Oswald acted alone. Here are a handful of the most popular and well-known conspiracy theories about the assassination: Multiple shooters The House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations report also concluded Oswald fired on Kennedy, killing the President, but differing with the Warren Commission, the House report said there was a “high probability” that two gunmen fired at Kennedy, offering skeptics of the Warren Commission endless fodder. Incidentally, the botched operation, among other things, led Kennedy to criticize the CIA, and a New York Times report quoted Kennedy as saying he wanted “to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” After the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US continued plotting to kill Castro for years, including trying to poison the autocrat’s cigars.

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