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JFK Assassination Suspects - Coggle Diagram
JFK Assassination Suspects
James Files
What was the Theory?
In 1963, Files was recruited by Charlie Nicoletti to take part in the killing of John F. Kennedy. Nicoletti claimed that the assassination was being organized by Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli and David Atlee Phillips.
Evidence
On 22nd November, 1963, Files claims he drove to Fort Worth where he met Johnny Roselli, Jack Ruby and Jim Brading. At the meeting Ruby handed Rosselli an envelope that contained Secret Service identifications and an updated motorcade route map of Dallas.
Files said that he and Nicoletti went to Dealey Plaza at about 10 a.m. It was agreed that Files would use his Remington Fireball gun from behind the fence on the Grassy Knoll and that Nicoletti would position himself in the Dal-Tex Building. Files believes that Nicoletti's bullets hit both John F. Kennedy and John Connally. However, Files claimed that his bullet that hit Kennedy in the head. Apparently Files was given $30,000 for his role in the assassination. Files continued to work for Charlie Nicoletti until he was murdered on 29th March, 1977.
In 1994, Files confessed to the murder of JFK. The story eventually appeared in a video The Murder of JFK: Confession of an Assassin (1996) an a book on the subject, Files on JFK: Interviews with Confessed Assassin James E. Files (2008).
Lee Harvey Oswald
Evidence
Lee Harvey Oswald, shortly before the assassination, had access to and was present on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building.
Lee Harvey Oswald owned the rifle that was used to fire the shots from the sixth floor window of the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository Building.
Oswald was found near the Texas School Book Depository not long after the assassination took place.
What was the theory?
That Oswald fired three shots at President John F. Kennedy from the sixth floor window of the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository Building. The second and third shots he fired struck the President. The third shot he fired killed the President.
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev
What was the Theory?
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev ordered the assassination of JFK because of what was currently happening during the Cuban missile crisis.
Evidence
With JFK gone Russia would be able to set up missiles in Cuba and therefore would have an excellent advantage in the vicinity of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson
What was the theory?
That Lyndon B. Johnson with the help of the CIA, planned and executed the assassination of JFK.
Evidence
Both Johnson and the CIA had motives as with JFK gone Johnson would be the president and in turn would be able to increase the funding and resources available to the CIA.
They also both had the ability to carry out this plan and cover it up, as once the CIA assassinated JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson created the Warren Commission to pretend like they were investigating JFK's assassination, when in reality they were just trying to cover up Lyndon B. Johnson and the CIA's involvement.
Many people who witnessed JFK's assassination say that the Warren Commission would not interview them and instead mainly only interviewed CIA personnel.
The Doctors who were tasked with carrying out JFK's autopsy say that the CIA agents were rushing them and even taking away evidence that would never be seen again.
