Recently, the subject of the JFK assassinatino came up in another thread here. I think it's a subject that deserves its own thread, so I made this one for the task. I'll respond to someone who was discussing it in the aforementioned thread to start things off.
They may not have heard of the Warren report, but they don't believe it's conclusion, that is, that Oswald was solely responsible for JFK's death. From a Fox News article from 2015:
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On the 40th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, a recent FOX News poll shows most Americans disagree with the government’s conclusions about the killing. The Warren Commission (search) found that Lee Harvey Oswald (search) acted alone when he shot Kennedy, but 66 percent of the public today think the assassination was “part of a larger conspiracy” while only 25 percent think it was the “act of one individual.” These new poll results are similar to previous surveys conducted by Louis Harris and Associates in 1967, 1975 and 1981, when about two-thirds also felt the shooting was part of a larger conspiracy.
The FOX News poll, conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corporation (search), also shows that most Americans (74 percent) think there was a cover-up of the facts about the assassination of JFK. Few people (14 percent) think “we know all the facts” and 12 percent are unsure.
"For older Americans the Kennedy assassination was a traumatic experience that began a loss of confidence in government," comments Opinion Dynamics President John Gorman. "Younger people have grown up with movies and documentaries that have pretty much pushed the 'conspiracy' line. Therefore, it isn't surprising there is a fairly solid national consensus that we still don't know the truth."
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Source:
Poll: Most Believe 'Cover-Up' of JFK Assassination Facts | foxnews.com
What's not mentioned in the Fox News article is the fact that in 1976, The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 and 1968, respectively. From the Wikipedia article on the subject:
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The HSCA commissioned a number of expert scientific studies to re-investigate the physical evidence of the JFK assassination. In comparison to witness testimony and government documents, the committee felt that such investigations would particularly benefit from the scientific advances of the fifteen years since the Warren Commission.[1]: 19 Several lines of inquiry were followed to both reaffirm the single shooter/single-bullet theory as well as to disprove specific conspiracy theory allegations. The HSCA concluded that these scientific studies of assassination-related evidence do "not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President."[2]
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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations#Investigations
Less than 3 weeks ago, an article was published on Axios pointing out that a new poll was done regarding information the government has on the JFK assassination:
70% of voters want JFK assassination records release, poll shows | axios.com
They may not have heard of the Warren report, but they don't believe it's conclusion, that is, that Oswald was solely responsible for JFK's death. From a Fox News article from 2015:
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On the 40th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, a recent FOX News poll shows most Americans disagree with the government’s conclusions about the killing. The Warren Commission (search) found that Lee Harvey Oswald (search) acted alone when he shot Kennedy, but 66 percent of the public today think the assassination was “part of a larger conspiracy” while only 25 percent think it was the “act of one individual.” These new poll results are similar to previous surveys conducted by Louis Harris and Associates in 1967, 1975 and 1981, when about two-thirds also felt the shooting was part of a larger conspiracy.
The FOX News poll, conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corporation (search), also shows that most Americans (74 percent) think there was a cover-up of the facts about the assassination of JFK. Few people (14 percent) think “we know all the facts” and 12 percent are unsure.
"For older Americans the Kennedy assassination was a traumatic experience that began a loss of confidence in government," comments Opinion Dynamics President John Gorman. "Younger people have grown up with movies and documentaries that have pretty much pushed the 'conspiracy' line. Therefore, it isn't surprising there is a fairly solid national consensus that we still don't know the truth."
**
Source:
Poll: Most Believe 'Cover-Up' of JFK Assassination Facts | foxnews.com
What's not mentioned in the Fox News article is the fact that in 1976, The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 and 1968, respectively. From the Wikipedia article on the subject:
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The HSCA commissioned a number of expert scientific studies to re-investigate the physical evidence of the JFK assassination. In comparison to witness testimony and government documents, the committee felt that such investigations would particularly benefit from the scientific advances of the fifteen years since the Warren Commission.[1]: 19 Several lines of inquiry were followed to both reaffirm the single shooter/single-bullet theory as well as to disprove specific conspiracy theory allegations. The HSCA concluded that these scientific studies of assassination-related evidence do "not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President."[2]
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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations#Investigations
Less than 3 weeks ago, an article was published on Axios pointing out that a new poll was done regarding information the government has on the JFK assassination:
70% of voters want JFK assassination records release, poll shows | axios.com
