JFK Files: What Investigators Really Discovered
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President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Two days later the prime suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot on live television. He never stood trial.
Decades of theories followed. This file sets them against the record: the findings of the Warren Commission in 1964 and of the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979, and the JFK files released from 2017 to 2025.
The single-bullet theory split even the Warren Commission. A police Dictabelt recording led the House committee to conclude there were probably two gunmen, and a National Academy of Sciences panel then found that acoustic evidence seriously flawed. The CIA and FBI kept information from the Warren Commission; a CIA historian’s 2014 report called it a “benign cover-up.” No inquiry ever named a mastermind. Where the records end, the film stops.
Case file
(0:00) The assassination as it happened
(1:19) The motorcade and the shots in Dealey Plaza
(4:36) Manhunt for the missing warehouse worker: Lee Harvey Oswald’s capture
(6:09) Jack Ruby kills Oswald on live television
(7:54) Public doubt and the lone-gunman question
(8:47) The Warren Commission: findings and flaws
(12:59) The Zapruder film is broadcast—impact on the public
(13:52) Conflicting eyewitness testimony and what it means
(17:55) Lee Harvey Oswald: history and motives
(19:06) The Mafia and the second investigation: House Select Committee
(22:47) Public opinion, poll numbers, and the story’s staying power
(24:03) What the CIA and FBI really withheld—a ‘benign cover-up’
About the host
The man at the desk is an AI-generated presenter, not a real person. His voice, which narrates the film, is synthetic, and the score and sound effects were made with AI too. Apart from the host, what you see is real: archival film, photographs and documents, plus present-day photographs of Dealey Plaza and other sites.
Records and images
Universal Newsreel (November 1963) and other National Archives film; excerpts from the 1978 documentary “The Assassination of President Kennedy” (Internet Archive); photographs, documents and newspaper pages via the National Archives, the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons; Library of Congress photographs.
CC-licensed pictures from Wikimedia Commons, cropped and desaturated for this film:
• Dealey Plaza (cropped) — ArtBrom, CC BY-SA 2.0
• Dealey Plaza Dallas 3 — Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0
• Office J D Tippit Historical Marker Area — Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
• JFK Plaque — Jpotter1138, CC BY-SA 3.0
• JackRuby — Grandeland, CC BY-SA 4.0
• X in Road Marks Where Fatal Shot Hit President Kennedy… — Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0
• JFK Wooden Fence — BenFrantzDale, CC BY-SA 3.0
• Dallasjfk — Lowesvisa at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0
• Dealey Plaza Dallas TX 2013-06-08 002 — Thomas R Machnitzki (thomas@machnitzki.com), CC BY 3.0
• Grassy Knoll — Mchristo19, CC BY-SA 4.0
• Grassy Knoll palisade — "Gorik" (Flickr user), CC BY-SA 2.0
• Dallas 2012.19 — Javaman200, CC BY-SA 4.0
• John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States. — Kheel Center, CC BY 2.0
• Texas Schoolbook Depository 411 Elm St TX 2013-06-08 003 — Thomas R Machnitzki (thomas@machnitzki.com), CC BY 3.0
• Dealey Plaza View from Behind Grassy Knoll Picket Fence — Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0
• DealeyPlaza2 (1 of 1) — Renelibrary, CC BY-SA 4.0
• Texas School Book Depository by sunset — Jim Bowen, CC BY 2.0
• Grave of Lee Harvey Oswald — Iconsoffright at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0
Which piece would you reopen first: the single bullet, the Dictabelt recording, or the files the agencies held back?
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While considering true evidence and rejecting false evidence, this is determined!!
All government JFK files and photos MUST be released. Certainly, it was an extensively planned COUP. The Deep State did this with the CIA in the lead position. The oddball CIA plant, S.S. agent George Hickey was the selected assassin using the AR-15, from his "high chair" sniper position, made by stacking two suitcases on the rear seat. Even though he sat much higher than the others in the car, he was still shielded from sight by the 4 agents standing on the running boards. The Z film may show him bending down to grab the rifle, before the first shot, which would indicate he knew where the first shot was to occur.
First shot was by LHO from the S.B. Depository at the point of the vehicle's slowest speed as it turned and directly below LHO, it glanced off a metal traffic light support, sprayed fragments around the car, hitting JFK in the upper right back and lower right throat. Those fragments were recovered. JFK then proclaims, "my God, I'm hit", and raises his hands near his chin. The true autopsy showed no intact bullet passed through JFK's body, the fragment that struck his lower right throat was used for the for tracheotomy that was done by the doctors at Parkland Hospital.
Second shot was by LHO, it struck only Connally, producing the intact recovered bullet. Connally was emphatic about NOT being hit with the first gun shot.
Third shot was from George Hickey, it was the head/kill shot, the bullet disintegrated, being a frangible or explosive bullet. Only small granular bullet particles were found in the JFK head x-ray. A lot of brain matter and bone fragments were sprayed forward horizontally and upward in the air, which blew back onto at least one motorcycle cop, with a larger bone piece landing on the trunk. That shot timing was too short to also be from LHO.
Fourth shot was from LHO, it missed all the passengers, passing through the windshield producing a pencil sized hole in the windshield, then glanced off of the street and curb spraying debris into Tague's face, no remains of this bullet were found.
JFK Files: What Investigators Really Discovered
Unsolved Americana
2,618 views
President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Two days later the prime suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot on live television. He never stood trial.
Decades of theories followed. This file sets them against the record: the findings of the Warren Commission in 1964 and of the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979, and the JFK files released from 2017 to 2025.
The single-bullet theory split even the Warren Commission. A police Dictabelt recording led the House committee to conclude there were probably two gunmen, and a National Academy of Sciences panel then found that acoustic evidence seriously flawed. The CIA and FBI kept information from the Warren Commission; a CIA historian’s 2014 report called it a “benign cover-up.” No inquiry ever named a mastermind. Where the records end, the film stops.
Case file
(0:00) The assassination as it happened
(1:19) The motorcade and the shots in Dealey Plaza
(4:36) Manhunt for the missing warehouse worker: Lee Harvey Oswald’s capture
(6:09) Jack Ruby kills Oswald on live television
(7:54) Public doubt and the lone-gunman question
(8:47) The Warren Commission: findings and flaws
(12:59) The Zapruder film is broadcast—impact on the public
(13:52) Conflicting eyewitness testimony and what it means
(17:55) Lee Harvey Oswald: history and motives
(19:06) The Mafia and the second investigation: House Select Committee
(22:47) Public opinion, poll numbers, and the story’s staying power
(24:03) What the CIA and FBI really withheld—a ‘benign cover-up’
About the host
The man at the desk is an AI-generated presenter, not a real person. His voice, which narrates the film, is synthetic, and the score and sound effects were made with AI too. Apart from the host, what you see is real: archival film, photographs and documents, plus present-day photographs of Dealey Plaza and other sites.
Records and images
Universal Newsreel (November 1963) and other National Archives film; excerpts from the 1978 documentary “The Assassination of President Kennedy” (Internet Archive); photographs, documents and newspaper pages via the National Archives, the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons; Library of Congress photographs.
CC-licensed pictures from Wikimedia Commons, cropped and desaturated for this film:
• Dealey Plaza (cropped) — ArtBrom, CC BY-SA 2.0
• Dealey Plaza Dallas 3 — Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0
• Office J D Tippit Historical Marker Area — Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
• JFK Plaque — Jpotter1138, CC BY-SA 3.0
• JackRuby — Grandeland, CC BY-SA 4.0
• X in Road Marks Where Fatal Shot Hit President Kennedy… — Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0
• JFK Wooden Fence — BenFrantzDale, CC BY-SA 3.0
• Dallasjfk — Lowesvisa at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0
• Dealey Plaza Dallas TX 2013-06-08 002 — Thomas R Machnitzki (thomas@machnitzki.com), CC BY 3.0
• Grassy Knoll — Mchristo19, CC BY-SA 4.0
• Grassy Knoll palisade — "Gorik" (Flickr user), CC BY-SA 2.0
• Dallas 2012.19 — Javaman200, CC BY-SA 4.0
• John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States. — Kheel Center, CC BY 2.0
• Texas Schoolbook Depository 411 Elm St TX 2013-06-08 003 — Thomas R Machnitzki (thomas@machnitzki.com), CC BY 3.0
• Dealey Plaza View from Behind Grassy Knoll Picket Fence — Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0
• DealeyPlaza2 (1 of 1) — Renelibrary, CC BY-SA 4.0
• Texas School Book Depository by sunset — Jim Bowen, CC BY 2.0
• Grave of Lee Harvey Oswald — Iconsoffright at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0
Which piece would you reopen first: the single bullet, the Dictabelt recording, or the files the agencies held back?
Next case file: JFK Files: What the 'Magic Bullet' Tests Really Showed
JFK Files: What the 'Magic Bullet' Tests R...
Follow the next case: @unsolvedamericana
#UnsolvedMysteries #JFK #JFKFiles