Did Lyndon Johnson do it?

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Sources & limits.

Numbered citations in each article identify the relevant sources. These records have different purposes and evidentiary weight.

1. Gallup: “Majority in U.S. still believe JFK killed in a conspiracy,” 15 November 2013 ↗

   The 50th-anniversary reading.

2. Washington Times: review of Roger Stone’s The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ, 25 February 2014 ↗

   Hugh Aynesworth, a Dallas reporter at the scene in 1963, finds the book entertaining but built on unreliable witnesses. Blocks scripted fetches; confirmed by search.

3. Rolling Stone: “The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt,” 2007 (archived copy) ↗

   St. John Hunt’s account of his father’s notes and tape.

4. HSCA final report, part I-C: conspiracy findings ↗

   Soviet, Cuban, anti-Castro, organized-crime and agency allegations, one by one.

5. Vice President Johnson’s daily diary, 21 November 1963 (LBJ Library) ↗

   Places Johnson in San Antonio, Houston and then Fort Worth that night.

6. Nathan Darby affidavit on a “Mac Wallace” fingerprint, 1998 (as posted by a proponent) ↗

   His 9 March 1998 affidavit claims two matches between Wallace’s prints and a Depository print; examined from copies, not the original card.

7. Lobster magazine: “Two stories about JFK fingerprints,” 2015 ↗

   FOIA file: the FBI’s 15 March 1999 report that the latent print “is not a fingerprint of Malcolm Everett Wallace,” and examiner Harold Hoffmeister’s April 1998 letter withdrawing his confirming affidavit.

8. Warren Commission report, chapter 1: summary and conclusions ↗

   The Commission’s own conclusions: three shots from the sixth-floor window, the single-bullet finding described as “very persuasive”, Oswald as the killer of Kennedy and Tippit, Ruby acting alone, no conspiracy found.