John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. The facts are overwhelming. Period.

I was going to go to bed prior to responding, but then I read your reply, and I couldn't wait. First of all, one of the most common conspiracy theories involves a "sudden" and "evil" alteration of the motorcade route in Dealey Plaza. This is classic conspiracy bunk, and complete historical fallacy. let me clear this one up quickly so that it is not repeated: The ONLY way a vehicle could get to the Trade Mart, where Kennedy was scheduled to speak at 1pm that fateful day, was to take elm Street to the freeway. Elm Street exits to the right after the overpass, and the freeway takes a traveler directly to the Trade Mart. if the evil Secret Service and FBI had wanted to get the President to the Trade Mart by staying on Main Street, they would have had to jump a curb. In fact, every single car and bus in the motorcade would have had to jump the curb after the overpass to access the freeway. Actually, because I have been to Dealey Plaza several times and have driven the route, I can tell you that it isn't even a curb. It is a divider about 3 to 4 feet in width. The limo would have been beached on such a curb. Again, this is one of the most commonly cited "theories" about the malignant forces at work that day, and one of the most easily disproved. The route was NOT altered that morning. Complete hogwash. The route was the same one planned three days before, and Oswald knew it, because it was published in the Dallas Morning News (Elm Street route and all)! Conspiracy debunkers have disproved this weak accusation repeatedly for 40 years, and yet it still pops up, because people fail to do primary source material research. They just repeat conspiracy books, articles, and websites. This is how conspiracy theories survive reason and flourish, despite all evidence and reason to the contrary. Next: The "miraculous" police description of Oswald 12 minutes following the assassination. Nothing miraculous about it. Howard Brennan was sitting with his wife on the concrete wall across Elm Street, directly facing the Depository. He noticed a man with a rifle 10 minutes prior to the assassination and POINTED HI OUT TO HIS WIFE. When the shots began, Brennan looked up and saw a white male wearing a brown shirt, dark hair, thin, etc. He recalled watching the man take a third shot, then pause as though to make sure he had hit his mark, and then he withdrew back into the window and disappeared. (You can read Brennan's testimony anywhere). Now, Brennan's description was PRECISELY what was utilized by DPD because they had nothing else to go on. Ironically, and this is what confuses conspiracy nutjobs the most, Brennan became convinced that a conspiracy existed later in life, and refused to do any more interviews about the assassination. Why is this ironic? Because Brennan's very description and his observation, with his wife, of the shooter, his description which was verbatim broadcast all over Dallas to police dispatchers, and his recollection of the exact same description of events to the Warren Commission (he did not alter or embellish his recollections like so many others mysteriously did (see: Jean Hill) is what led to Oswald's arrest. Conspiracy theorists cannot reconcile Brennan's rock solid witness descriptions that went out over police radios with his later fear that a conspiracy occurred, because it defeated conspiracy theorist attempts to discredit the man. Magically described on police radios and then arrested? Hardly. This is precisely what I was waiting for from someone who believed a vast conspiracy occurred. See, I spent 8 years -- eight years -- studying the assassination. I went into my research convinced beyond a doubt that a conspiracy had robbed this country of a president, and that evil forces were in play to suppress the truth. Then I began to do original, primary source material research. Meaning I did not rely on conspiracy books, on websites, on YouTube videos, on magazine articles. I read original testimony. I visited Dealey Plaza. I interviewed experts. I visited the National Archives three times to view original documents, archival photographs, and artifacts from that day. and my steadfast determination in believing in a conspiracy crumbled. A reasoned mind cannot do original research and hold to the theory that anyone but Oswald murdered Kennedy. Every "fact" argued by conspiracy theorists for decades has been thoroughly, and REPEATEDLY disproved, and often by people who originally BELIEVED in a conspiracy! But here's the catch: conspiracy theorists who publish their ideas, and thus have the power to influence a wide-reaching audience, also have an agenda to keep their theories alive. Why? It is first and foremost a money making endeavor. They need to keep their theories dancing in the minds of unknowing people who have NOT done any research themselves. So they purposely avoid to mention facts. They distort reality. They fail to disclose evidence that has been around for 45 years. They forget names, places, events, facts. they warp reality on purpose to keep the myth alive. This isn't simply me babbling on here; this is absolute fact. Conspiracy theorists manipulate the truth and suppress facts in their publications to keep people enthralled. This is almost as big a crime as the assassination itself. Almost. What IS a big crime is the argument that Oswald was innocent. It insults John Kennedy and his legacy to suggest that his murderer was innocent of the greatest crime of the century. Let's hear some more of your "facts". As I said, I have researched this subject to death. I have heard every single one of them, and I have an answer -- not a theory, a factually based response -- to every single one of them.