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The JFK Assassination
At 12:30 p.m. local time on Friday, November 22, 1963, three rifle shots were fired at the presidential motorcade as it traveled through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was struck twice — first through the neck and then in the head. He was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital at 1:00 p.m. The man arrested for the killing — Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and returned to the United States with his Russian wife in 1962 — was shot to death two days later, on November 24, in the basement of the Dallas Police Department by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner with documented organized-crime connections. Oswald was never tried. The Warren Commission, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson on November 29, 1963, concluded in its September 1964 report that Oswald had acted alone. The 1976-1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Oswald had assassinated Kennedy but that 'a conspiracy was probable' based on disputed acoustic evidence. Approximately 5 million pages of classified material related to the case have been declassified in waves since the 1992 JFK Records Act — most recently in major batches in October 2017, November 2017, April 2018, December 2022, and June 2023. The final tranche under Trump's second presidency was released March 18, 2025. The declassifications have confirmed extensive operational CIA activity connected to Oswald's pre-assassination movements but have not produced documentary evidence of a second shooter or of senior-level U.S. government involvement. The case remains the foundational American conspiracy story and the principal modern example of how partially-declassified state files can sustain — rather than resolve — public doubt.
Operation Northwoods
In March 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff put a document on Robert McNamara's desk. It proposed a series of false-flag attacks against the United States — sunk ships, civilian terror campaigns in Miami and Washington, a faked civilian airliner shoot-down — to manufacture public support for invading Cuba. Every member of the Joint Chiefs signed it. Kennedy rejected it within days. The document stayed buried for thirty-five years.
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