 | What the Polls Say
As recently as October 2003, a Fox News Poll showed that 66%
of Americans believe there was a conspiracy. Here are results from earlier Gallup Polls:
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One Man Involved |
Larger Conspiracy |
Not Sure |
March 2001 | 13% | 81% | 6% |
November 1993 | 15% | 75% | 10% |
February 1992 | 10% | 77% | 13% |
October 1983 | 11% | 74% | 15% |
December 1976 | 11% | 81% | 9% |
December 1966 | 36% | 50% | 15% |
November 1963 | 29% | 52% | 19% |
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Late 1960s - Early 1970s
Vietnam and Watergate produce a widespread loss of faith in government. During the Vietnam War the government lied about the war strategy and scale of buildup. A few years later, the Watergate scandal revealed the Nixon administration had broken the law, lied to Congress, and used the CIA to block an FBI investigation.
1975
Abraham Zapruder's 26 second home movie of the shooting of President Kennedy is broadcast for the first time on ABC's Goodnight America . It shows graphic footage of the fatal shot causing the president's head to snap back and to the left, appearing as if the bullet had come from the front, not the rear and thus suggesting there was a second gunman.
1975-76
The Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (known as the Church Committee) reveals the CIA plotted to kill Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965 and that "American underworld figures and Cubans hostile to Castro were used in these plots and were provided encouragment and material support by the United States."
1979
The House Select Committee on Assassinations, which reexamined the Kennedy assassination, releases its report concluding that there was a "probable conspiracy" but is unable to determine the nature of it or other participants (besides Oswald).
1991
Oliver Stone's JFK is released. The movie mixes fact and fiction in a storyline that suggests forces within the U.S. government conspired to murder the president. The movie ignites a public furor and pushes Congress to pass in 1993 the JFK Records Act which requires federal agencies to release all their files on the assassination.
1999
Newly released documents, mandated by the 1993 JFK Records Act, show that shortly after the assassination, the CIA and FBI listened to CIA bug tapes of an impersonator, saying he was Oswald, calling the Soviet embassy in Mexico City on Oct 1, 1963. For years, the CIA had claimed its phone intercepts in Mexico City had been erased prior to the assassination. Read more on this intelligence cover up.
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