Was there a conspiracy involved in Kennedy's assassination?
Published in Daily Trivia
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. CST on Friday, November 22, 1963, while on a political trip through Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged at 7:00 p.m. for killing a Dallas policeman by "murder with malice", and he was also charged at 11:30 p.m. for the murder of the President (there was no charge for the "assassination" of a President at that time). Oswald was fatally shot less than two days later in a Dallas police station by Jack Ruby. Five days after Oswald was killed, President Lyndon B. Johnson, created the Warren Commission -- chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren -- to investigate the assassination. It concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. A later investigation in the 1970s by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) also concluded that Oswald was the assassin. However it added that it was likely that he was part of a conspiracy to kill the President, and that it was likely one additional shot (that missed) was fired from another location. The HSCA did not find sufficient evidence to identify any other members of a conspiracy.
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