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ABC News Theories Surround JFK Assassination

"Forty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, an overwhelming majority of Americans do not believe the official conclusion that a loser named Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed the president with a cheap mail-order rifle fired from the Texas School Book Depository."

"The poll, conducted earlier this month, found that 70 percent think the assassination was part of a broader plot; 51 percent believe there was a second gunman; and more than two-thirds believe there was a government cover-up."

The New York Times Freed From Conspiracy
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"Those who will gather at conferences and flood Internet newsgroups this weekend to insist upon a conspiracy in Kennedy's murder often say that they are crusading to make their fellow citizens face the truth that their president was killed by rogue elements of their own government. And yet, it can be said that those who accept the overwhelming evidence of Oswald's lone guilt (a distinct minority) are trying to accept an even more daunting truth: that the world is sometimes convulsed by hapless men in fortuitious circumstances. It is more frightening, not less, to think that a figure like Kennedy can be murdered by a 24-year-old warehouse clerk, as opposed to, say, the C.I.A."

Star-Telegram JFK assassination theories continue to thrive
"One academic expert said the persistence of Kennedy conspiracy theories is simply part of a long-lived American tradition.

"People will believe forever, no matter the reliability of the evidence," said Charles Stewart, a Purdue University communications professor who studies and teaches how conspiracy theorists make their conspiracies believable. "We love conspiracies in this country. Even back to the colonists, Americans always have been suspicious about their government and have rallied around conspiracies.""

National Geographic News JFK's Many Lives and Deaths--40 Years Later
"Watch it yet once more. The cars roll by in the bright afternoon. The president lifts his hand to wave. The smile, the wit, the charisma are still intact. The roses, emblem of martyrs, are beside him. Believe it or not, someone has seriously conjectured that what is about to happen was secretly planned by Kennedy himself. Aware that he was dying of Addison's disease, he instead preferred to stage his own gory exit, sacrificing himself to ensure his enduring hold on our memory.

John F. Kennedy as ultimate conspirator. That may be the strangest twist in the mythmaking that for 40 years has been fashioning so many of his lives and deaths."

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