What are the conspiracy theories on why President Kennedy was shot?
Since November 22 will mark the 30th anniversary of the slaying of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the nation is only weeks away from a media-sponsored wave of nostalgia that could eclipse even 1987’s rerun of the summer of love. The cottage industry that endlessly theorizes about the “truth” behind Kennedy’s death will battle the stodgy “Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone” establishment on a scale not seen since the 1991 release of the controversial film JFK. So what’s the big deal? Kennedy’s murder is important because it branded the consciousness of the Bill Clinton/Oliver Stone generation so deeply that we can expect it to disappear into the realm of historical trivia only when that generation is itself trundled off to the nursing homes. Everyone loves a mystery. Despite volumes of evidence and reams of writing speculating on who really killed the President, only two things are certain. Kennedy was definitely killed in Dallas by a high-powered rifle. His probable assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald,
