Where could a shot originate?
Height, street alignment, trees, sightlines and wound direction are distinct constraints.
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Begin here / The people and the sequence
A president. A suspect.
A country watching.
Begin with the president’s life, Oswald’s path and the November weekend. Then follow the physical evidence, institutional failures and the competing explanations.
This guide separates documented events, attributed reporting, and editorial assessment. A recovered exhibit, a witness recollection, an intelligence allegation and a proven concealment require different tests.
The evidence map / Orient before arguing
A small place.
Different questions.
The Depository, the bend in Elm Street, the knoll and the underpass belong in one mental picture. This is a schematic orientation aid, not a survey or a plotted shooting reconstruction.
What path is being proposed?
Inspect the seats, posture, wounds and the difference between a schematic and a measured reconstruction.
Open this evidence question →What did witnesses perceive?
A sound, an odor, a rush toward a location and a visible gunman are different observations.
Open this evidence question →What can a film show?
Images establish motion and sequence. Reproduction history, timing and physical interpretation need additional work.
Open this evidence question →Original schematic by The AI Files, based on the locations discussed in the linked source articles. The numbered Elm Street marker is an evidence link, not an exact vehicle position at a particular film frame. Use the original measurements for ballistic analysis.
The investigations / They did not all say the same thing
Different mandates.
Different conclusions.
Read each inquiry in its own terms, then inspect what later evidence changed. “The government said” is too imprecise for this history.
1964
Warren Commission
Oswald fired the shots; no credible conspiracy evidence found.
A major investigative record, created without an Oswald trial and with undisclosed agency activity.
Read the record and its limits →1975–1976
Church Committee
Exposed covert assassination activity and intelligence-agency failures.
Evidence of covert wrongdoing is not a finding that the same actors ordered Dallas.
Read the record and its limits →1979
House assassination inquiry
Found a probable conspiracy, relying heavily on acoustic evidence.
Its physical-evidence findings and its conspiracy inference must be assessed separately.
Read the record and its limits →1982 / later papers
Scientific acoustic review
Challenged whether the alleged shot impulses occurred during the assassination.
Later defenses and replies continued; the original acoustic inference cannot be cited without this dispute.
Read the record and its limits →1994–1998
Records Review Board
Opened files, took testimony and documented missing or destroyed material.
A disclosure body; it did not issue a new verdict on who killed Kennedy.
Read the record and its limits →2025–2026
Releases and records litigation
More original material, declassification, version comparisons and specific court rulings.
Newly visible does not always mean newly discovered; a records ruling is not a murder finding.
Read the record and its limits →The documents desk / Read the page, not just the claim
A warning.
An allegation. A record of misconduct.
Three complete federal document pages illustrate different kinds of evidence. Their original creation dates precede the latest online releases by decades.
OPEN ORIGINAL SCAN ↗June 30, 1961 · fuller public release in 2025
Schlesinger’s CIA warning
A real critique of clandestine power is important evidence of a policy dispute. It is not an assassination order.
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OPEN ORIGINAL SCAN ↗1964 death · 1967 memorandum · 2025 recirculation
The Underhill allegation
A genuine CIA file quotes a magazine story alleging a CIA clique killed Kennedy. Authentic custody does not authenticate the allegation.
Read the document analysis →
OPEN ORIGINAL SCAN ↗June 1, 1973 · fuller disclosure in 2025
Special activities / Family Jewels
Actual covert abuses are relevant context. They need not be minimized or converted into proof of a different operation.
Read the document analysis →These are full source pages, rendered without changing their contents. Underhill’s page quotes an allegation from a magazine; its presence in a CIA file does not authenticate the allegation. Source IDs, dates, comparisons and access limitations appear in each article.
SELECT A CLAIM
Cecil W. Stoughton / JFK Library · Source & license ↗
Cecil W. Stoughton / LBJ Library · Source & license ↗
Fredlyfish4 · Source & license ↗
The screening room / Look for yourself
Original voices.
Competing explanations.
Contemporary recordings, congressional hearings, museum interviews and technical explanations. Each link says whether it is a full report, an excerpt, an official account or a counterargument. Original footage, retrospective testimony and advocacy are identified. Some external historical footage includes the shootings; there is no autoplay or embedded player here.
DATE / SUBJECT / EVIDENCE
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Photography & image credits
Archival photographs, later location photographs and complete document facsimiles are distinguished. No synthetic historical scenes or AI-enhanced evidence images are used. Historical image licenses and archival sources are linked. The Zapruder film and autopsy photographs are not reproduced here.