Picture of the Kennedy brothers (who were considered the most powerful during the post-World War II era) meeting with J. Edgar Hoover, who was the leader of the FBI.
Conspiracies?After the Warren Commission was published to the public, many people dismissed that Oswald had acted alone. People doubted the "single-bullet theory" which suggested that one bullet was responsible for the multiple wounds and injuries to the Texas governor, John Connally. The conspiracy thinking of the assassination had started in Europe, but made its way to the U.S. Leftists came up with conspiracies involving the Mafia, the dictator of Cuba, Castro, and even the security forces. Rightist had theories of their own that involved the civil rights movement, American communists, the Soviet Union and even Johnson himself. This theory was supported even further in 2011 when an interview of Jackie showed her suspicion of Johnson. The spread of conspiracy theorizing Kennedy's assassination had been a result of "the paranoid style of American politics" according to a historian, Richard Hofstadter.
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The MovieA New Orleans district, Jim Garrison was one of the most prominent conspiracy theorists; he brought Clay Shaw, a New Orleans business owner, to court for the assassination in 1967 (Shaw was acquitted). A filmmaker named Oliver Stone gave Garrison's theory another chance by making an official movie called JFK. This movie rehashed the assassination and the discussion around it. About 50 million went to see this movie and Stone receive two Academy Awards . Questioning of the one bullet theory became such a national phenomenon that a parody appeared in the 1992 episode ("The Boyfriend") of Seinfeld. The Assassination Records Review Board formed and released 60,000 classified or withheld documents relating to the assassination; next year, in 2017, the rest will be released also.
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