John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy was a President of the United States during the 1960s until his assassination in 1963.

Biography[]

Kennedy was known to have expressed an interest in outer space and the phenomenon of UFOs.^[1]

Three tramps — Police detaining three tramps at Dealey Plaza after Kennedy's assassination

On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Although Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime, doubts clouded the circumstances of Kennedy's murder. Shortly after the shooting, three tramps were arrested but released shortly after, with their arrest records later being lost. In 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested Clay Shaw for conspiring to kill Kennedy, but Shaw was acquitted.^[1]

In 1973, Dale Cooper began to express doubts over Oswald acting alone. At this time, he believed Kennedy to have been shot by a man concealing a gun inside of an umbrella and that the assassination was connected to the death of Marilyn Monroe. Cooper expressed such thoughts again in 1987^[2] and 1989.^[3]

In 1991, Oliver Stone released the film JFK, which focused upon Shaw's trial.^[1]

Behind the scenes[]

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and by the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

He was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election and the youngest president at the end of his tenure. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Although official investigations into Kennedy's assassination have found Lee Harvey Oswald to be solely responsible, his death has been the subject of various conspiracy theories. In his memoir, Room to Dream, Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch expressed belief in such a theory, suggesting that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the killing.