JFK John F. Kennedy Assassination

JFK John F Kennedy Assassination: What Really Happened? A Look into the Declassified Files

There are moments in history so embedded in the public consciousness that they appear to replay endlessly—on television screens, in classrooms, in hushed conversations late at night. One of those moments is Nov. 22, 1963.

The photograph of President John F. Kennedy slumped in the backseat of a shiny red Lincoln Continental in Dallas, Texas, has become more than an image of American history. It is a riddle. A slow-motion trauma. A national obsession.

For decades, we’ve been told the story. Lee Harvey Oswald acted by himself. Three shots rang out from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.