Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 -- November 24, 1963) was, according
to five government investigations, the sniper who assassinated John F.
Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, in Dallas, Texas, on
November 22, 1963.
Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who defected to
the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in the Soviet Union until
June 1962, at which time he returned to the United States. Oswald was
initially arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, who
was killed on a Dallas street approximately 45 minutes after President
Kennedy was shot. Oswald would later be charged with the assassination
of President Kennedy as well, but denied involvement in either of the
killings. Two days later, while being transferred from police
headquarters to the county jail, Oswald was shot and killed by Dallas
nightclub owner Jack Ruby in full view of television cameras
broadcasting live.
In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that
Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy, firing three shots. One
shot apparently missed the limousine entirely, another struck Kennedy
and Texas Governor John Connally, and another struck Kennedy in the
head. This conclusion was supported by prior investigations carried out
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and Dallas
Police Department.
Despite forensic, ballistic, and eyewitness
evidence supporting the lone gunman theory, public opinion polls taken
over the years have shown that a majority of Americans believe that
Oswald did not act alone, but conspired with others to kill the
president and the assassination has spawned numerous conspiracy
theories. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations
concluded that Oswald fired the shots that killed Kennedy, but differed
from previous investigations in concluding that "scientific acoustical
evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at
President John F. Kennedy." The House Select Committee's acoustical
evidence has since been discredited.
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