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John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination is the most theorized event in modern American history, and the surrounding deaths and operations of the Kennedy years have drawn their own suspicion. The documentary record, from the Warren Commission to the ongoing release of federal files, keeps these cases alive. These files center on Kennedy, his death, or the people around it.

6 case files1 supported1 disputed3 unresolved1 contradicted

Reference: Wikipedia

Cold War eraSupported

The CIA ran a secret program to overthrow Castro and plotted his assassination

Operation Mongoose, also called the Cuban Project, was a real, government-wide covert program authorized by President Kennedy in November 1961 to sabotage and overthrow Fidel Castro's government after the Bay of Pigs disaster. Alongside it, and separately, the CIA ran assassination plots against Castro (some using organized-crime contacts) later confirmed in detail by the Senate's Church Committee. The program is not a theory; it is documented history. What remains genuinely contested is how far up the chain of command the assassination plotting was known and approved.

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Cold War eraDisputed

JFK was killed by a conspiracy, not a lone gunman

The most investigated murder in history, and the one most Americans still believe was a conspiracy. The physical evidence points to a lone gunman; the doubts have never fully closed, which is exactly why this one is Disputed.

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1960sUnresolved

Robert F. Kennedy was killed by a second gunman, not by Sirhan Sirhan alone

Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just after winning the California Democratic primary, and died the next day. Sirhan Sirhan was caught firing a revolver in the pantry, was convicted of first-degree murder, and is still imprisoned. Yet the forensic record contains an anomaly that has never gone away: the coroner found the fatal wound was inflicted from behind at point-blank range, and no witness ever put Sirhan behind Kennedy or that close. This case file separates what is documented (Sirhan fired, was convicted, and remains in custody) from the second-gun claim (that more shots were fired than his eight-round revolver could hold and that a second weapon was involved), which is genuine, contested, and unproven.

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1960sUnresolved

Marilyn Monroe was murdered and her death covered up, not a probable suicide

On the night of 4 August 1962, the actress Marilyn Monroe died at her Los Angeles home at age 36. The county coroner ruled the cause acute barbiturate poisoning and the manner a probable suicide. Almost immediately, a counter-story took hold: that she was murdered, often tied to alleged affairs with President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, with the CIA, FBI, or organized crime variously implicated, and the evidence tidied away. This case file separates what is documented (a lethal overdose, a genuinely botched death scene, and unanswered forensic questions) from the central claim (that she was killed and it was hidden), which after more than sixty years and an official review remains unproven.

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1960sUnresolved

Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen was murdered to stop her from exposing the truth about the JFK assassination

Dorothy Kilgallen was one of the most famous journalists in America: a syndicated Hearst columnist and a beloved panelist on the television game show What's My Line? In 1964 she became the only reporter to secure a private interview with Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, and she publicly ridiculed the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone. She told associates she was about to break the biggest story of her career. On 8 November 1965 she was found dead in her Manhattan townhouse, and the medical examiner ruled that a mix of alcohol and barbiturates had killed her, with the circumstances undetermined. A cluster of odd details around the scene, and the disappearance of files tied to her Kennedy research, fueled a lasting belief that she was murdered to keep her quiet. This case file separates the documented record (a well-known journalist who died of a barbiturate-and-alcohol overdose ruled undetermined) from the rated claim (that she was deliberately killed to bury what she knew about the assassination), which the evidence leaves unproven.

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1990s–2020sContradicted

John F. Kennedy Jr. was not lost to an accident: his 1999 plane crash was sabotage, or he faked his death and is still alive

On the night of 16 July 1999, a Piper Saratoga piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. crashed into the Atlantic off Martha's Vineyard, killing him, his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Bessette. The National Transportation Safety Board investigated and concluded the probable cause was spatial disorientation: a relatively inexperienced pilot, not instrument-rated, losing control in haze and darkness over black water. Two conspiracy strands grew around the loss. The first holds that the crash was no accident but sabotage or murder, another entry in a 'Kennedy curse.' The second, a product of the QAnon era, holds the opposite of a death at all: that Kennedy faked the crash and is alive, poised to return. This case file lays out what the investigation documented and why both claims fail, while keeping in view that three real people died.

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