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Americans love a conspiracy, and one of their single favorite conspiracies is who really killed the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. As such, if you want to show how a character knows something few others do (or thinks they do), you show that they know something about the Kennedy assassination. The Kennedy assassination is a very fertile ground for this trope, if only because many Americans can't agree on who did it, why they did it, and how they did it. In fact, although longtime consensus from the Warren Commission Report is that Lee Harvey Oswald did it himself (by sniper shot from the sixth-floor window of the nearby Texas Book Depository), you're more likely to see the characters re-enact one of the most common alternative explanations popular among conspiracy theorists. It helps that there were a lot of different groups angry at Kennedy for one reason or another, including communists, anti-communists, and The Mafia (or an outlandish theory like the FBI, Nazi sleeper agents, Richard Nixon, or even Lyndon Johnson, suggesting a Klingon Promotion) or even the fatal bullet being from an accidental discharge from the Secret Service car riding ahead of Kennedy, and that Oswald was himself murdered two days later, while in police custody, without admitting responsibility, explaining why he did it, or even saying whether Kennedy was the intended victim. In particular, you can expect to see explanations for: The "magic bullet," suggesting that a single bullet could only have done the damage it did if it defied physics. The presence of another shooter on the "grassy knoll" The footage shown on the Zapruder Film. Oswald's murder by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, while in police custody, just two days after the assassination (suggesting Ruby was connected to whomever really ordered the assassination, particularly the Mob). Oswald's links to Cuba and particularly the Soviet Union. In an amusing side note, after the collapse of the USSR, Russia declassified papers showing that, at the time, Soviet intelligence went nuts trying to make sure he wasn't one of theirs, lest the assassination lead to World War III. Oswald's connection to George de Mohrenschildt, an enigmatic petroleum geologist, film producer and occassional CIA field agent of Russian White émigré origin. The attempted assassination of virulent anti-Communist General Edwin Walker a few months before Kennedy's death, usually also attributed to Oswald. There are two strains of this trope. The first is just mere discussion of the event, showing that a particular character is a Conspiracy Theorist (or making fun of people who believe in a conspiracy). The second is where the fictional characters turn out to be responsible, often explaining the inconsistencies in the common conspiracy theories through Time Travel or alien technology. In fact, causing or preventing the Kennedy assassination is one of the biggest reasons fictional people go time traveling (the first being to assassinate Hitler). Naturally, this can get really weird really quickly, which is why this is often Played for Laughs. noreallife |
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In Watchmen, it is hinted that the Comedian and Richard Nixon are somehow connected to the assassination in that story's timeline (the Comedian later quips "just don't ask me where I was when I heard the news"), while the movie actually shows The Comedian in the act. In Before Watchmen, it's revealed that the Comedian definitely didn't do it (although Before Watchmen's canonicity is up to the reader). | |
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In one flashback in The Pretender, young Jarod is pretending Oswald's part, and concludes that he wasn't acting alone. | |
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In a comic sketch on Chappelle's Show, Dave Chappelle as the President reveals to the world that JFK was killed by Oswald acting alone. With a magic bullet. Literal magic. | |
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Parodied in Our Dumb Century, whose initial article on the JFK shooting alleges that the President was shot by "CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons", and possibly aliens and Governor John Connally as well. His body was then stolen and used for myriad purposes. And all forty-three shooters were gunned down by Jack Ruby. Ultimately, the Warren Commission concludes that its eight members did it acting alone. | |
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American Horror Story: Double Feature all but outright states that Eisenhower and Nixon had Kennedy killed after he threatened to expose their treaty with the aliens. | |
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In Inside Job (2021), the act was committed by Grassy Noel Atkinson, who did it because apparently, Kennedy had sex with the alien from Roswell and got pregnant as a result. Have to prevent the eggs from hatching, you see. He's hailed as a hero within Cognito Inc. despite being well past his prime — but his Kennedy assassination skills come in handy when a bunch of JFK clones start taking over the building. | |
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Dark Skies: Majestic 12 had him killed after the protagonist told him and Bobby the truth about Roswell and The Men in Black. Jack Ruby, on the other hand, was an agent of the Hive. The protagonist also recounts the story to the Warren Commission, but they don't buy the ludicrous story about aliens and conspiracies. Nevertheless, his testimony is still included in the locked archives of the investigation. | |
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On Angel, a conspiracy theorist character encounters the goddess Jasmine, who clears up the mystery and tells him that there was no second gunman, and Oswald acted alone. However, it is revealed in the fifth season that Joe Kennedy had made a deal with Wolfram and Hart and then tried to back out of it. Fred comments that this explains a lot.note He could be referring to the so-called "Kennedy Curse", describing all the bad things that befell many members of the family (death, disease, scandal, etc.). This was right after JFK Junior's death in a plane crash, so that was on a lot of people's minds. | |
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In an episode of CNNNN, we see how the network (then known as CNNN) covered the Kennedy assassination as it happened, with Chris and Julian initially assuming the President's head just exploded from the stress of running the country, and Craig, who suggests he was shot by a lone gunman from a distance, being treated like a crazy conspiracy theorist. Forty years later, Chris still stands by his first theory and the book he wrote on it. | |
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In Bones, Kennedy's skeleton is brought in by The Men in Black. It turns out there was indeed a second shooter, which leads to Booth getting really upset, and then they find out that it wasn't the skeleton of JFK anyway. Maybe? | |
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Taken: In "High Hopes", Owen Crawford's involvement in the assassination is implied when he says, "That pretty boy isn't going to be President forever" in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy posed a major threat to Owen as he had threatened to shut the UFO project down. Discussed in "Acid Tests". Jesse Keys' drug dealer Willie tells him that he would believe him if he said that aliens killed the Kennedys. |
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Treme: Discussed in the second season episode "On Your Way Down"; a police chief who has no love for Toni (she's sued him before) dismisses her as a Conspiracy Theorist who still claims the Marcello crime family and LBJ had Kennedy killed. | |
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The Simpsons Spoofed when Homer and Marge are said to be looking for "their own mystery", and cuts to the two going through books with a sign saying "Who really shot JFK?". Homer's conclusion? "Lee Harvey Oswald was trying to steal the Jack Ruby!" He's very disappointed when he learns that Jack Ruby was actually a man. In "Marge in Chains", Professor Frink attempts to implicate Marge in the assassination, showing a courtroom a film of the assassination and pausing on a frame when something that appears to be Marge's distinctive hairdo can be seen in the background. In "Today I Am A Clown", when Krusty steps down from his show to study for his Bar Mitzvah, Homer takes over and turns it into a talk show. Lisa mentions that he now has great power to put to good use, as he imagines himself saving Lincoln from the attack at the theater. He later fantasizes there is a man aiming at JFK, and both he and Lincoln appear in the scene to give him a beating. |
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In Lupin III: Alcatraz Connection, it was the shutdown of Alcatraz that led to the JFK assassination — specifically, Kennedy learned that Alcatraz wasn't really a high-security prison, but rather a Luxury Prison Suite. Robert F. Kennedy is implied to have been assassinated for finding out the same thing. | |
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The Blake and Mortimer story "Eight Hours in Berlin" plays with this trope for most of the story: there really is a conspiracy against Kennedy by rogue elements of the U.S. military and Soviet GRU, but their goal isn't to kill him, but to replace him with a doppelganger, a plan they intend to repeat with all the major world leaders in order to bring about an end to the Cold War. Then they themselves are betrayed by their hired thug Olrik, who doesn't care about world peace and simply wants to use the doppelganger to start a nuclear war. The plot ultimately fails, but the last page ends with the heroes hearing the news of the Kennedy assassination. Whether the surviving members of the conspiracy had anything to do with it is left as an exercise to the reader. | |
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In a Clickhole video interviewing eyewitnesses to the assassination, one of them questions if someone besides Oswald killed the president, like the gorilla in the crowd holding up a sign saying "Gorilla Kill the President". | |
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In Justice League Unlimited, Conspiracy Theorist super-hero The Question is being tortured for information after he stole computer files from a secret government organization plotting against the superheroes of the world. When the Torture Technician demands that he "Tell [us] what you know!", he responds thusly note Given the nature of The Question, it's impossible to tell if he's telling the truth, he's repeating something he believes to be true but isn't, or he's blatantly lying. All three are equally possible: | |
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Alluded to in the Teen Titans Go! episode "Master Detective" where "Illumino", triangle-headed head of the Illuminati, combines Calling Your Attacks with sort of conspiracy-themed attack names with a barrier called "CONPSIRACY COVER-UP!" and something as specific as "GRASSY KNOLL GAZE!" | |
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The GREYLOCK Tapes: SimioDyn had Kennedy assassinated because he opposed the National Access Initiative, paving the way for Lyndon B. Johnson to approve it immediately. | |
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In Spacetrawler a raving alien conspiracy theorist claims that JFK was a shapeshifting galactic criminal who hid out on a dark planet and became a ruler there for a while before being assassinated by the Galactic Organization of Bodies. She subsequently turns out to be right about everything else she said. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): Discussed in "Breaking Point". In a conversation about the possibility of changing history, Andrew McLaren asks his friend and colleague, the physicist Carl van der Meer, what he believes the most likely outcome would be if someone travelled back in time to stop the assassination. Carl believes that JFK would leave Dallas without a scratch, dismissing all of the conspiracy theories about a second shooter on the grassy knoll. However, he notes that the fatalists would argue that someone else would shoot Kennedy and he would still die in Dallas as history recorded. Also discussed in "Something About Harry". When her son Zach is worried that their new boarder Harry Longworth may be a con artist or some other kind of criminal, Nancy Henniger jokes that he was the second shooter on the grassy knoll when he was five years old. |
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In The Filth, former cosmonaut, current assassin, and always chimpanzee Dmitri-9 claims to have killed "alpha primate Kennedy": | |
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In Hawaii Five-0, a conspiracy theorist friend of Jerry's comes to Hawaii on the trail of new evidence that might reveal a conspiracy behind the assassination, only to be shot dead in public. The cops continue her investigation and in the end find out that she actually discovered evidence of a conspiracy by senior White House officials to assassinate Fidel Castro, something that has been publicly known for decades. She was killed because of a separate investigation she was conducting into a chemical company. | |
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In Almost Live!, a 1990s sketch comedy show has a fake game show called "Conspiracy!" where an unknown Bill Nye keeps insisting "Tiger got him." | |
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Mafia III: Though taking place five years afterward, the country still understandably reels from such a horrific event. News broadcasts throughout the length of play bring it up. The Framing Device is partially composed of one of the protagonists, a Vietnam veteran turned CIA agent, telling his story after the events of the game. The interview, and indeed his entire involvement in the plot of the game, is a setup for said protagonist to begin his Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the conspirators in the assassination plot. | |
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Discussed in "Acid Tests". Jesse Keys' drug dealer Willie tells him that he would believe him if he said that aliens killed the Kennedys. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-157-ARC is the bullet that killed JFK (and was used in many other historic shootings, like the "shot heard around the world" at Lexington), but due to its low quality the page is now only preserved for archival purposes. SCP-3780 pretty much boils down to "the Foundation shot JFK"; while Lee Harvey Oswald did indeed make the killing shot, the time period is cluttered with temporal anomalies to a ridiculous degree, all of which involve Oswald being thwarted. Thus, the 23rd century-era Foundation continuously has to go back in time to destroy the anomalous interventions and help Oswald shoot JFK. Roget's Proposal II states that while, again, Oswald shot JFK, the bullet itself was supercharged with anomalous properties that caused reality to slowly start breaking down from the perspective of future generations, creating, among other things, the Mandela Effect and the slew of conspiracies surrounding Kennedy's assassination. By the time the file is written, the Foundation is left struggling to support the last people on Earth capable of making consensus truths about reality. |
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The In Search of... episode "Lee Harvey Oswald" suggests that the KGB did it in revenge for the Soviet Union's humiliation in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The case of Yuri Nosenko is discussed, and it's claimed that the FBI killed an investigation of Nosenko because they didn't want to admit they had failed to properly investigate whether Oswald was a Russian agent. Some talking heads tell us that Oswald was replaced by a Soviet double and that his diary was a Soviet forgery. The show offers no explanation for who fired from the grassy knoll, but nevertheless insists that some unknown person did. | |
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On King of the Hill, Dale is a hardcore Conspiracy Theorist, so it's no shock that this is one of his favorites. He calls the Warren Commission Report his favorite fairy tale, and reads it to his son as a bedtime story. That's until he looks over his detailed scale model and finds he reversed a direction (he has No Sense of Direction, really) — and when he fixes it, he realizes it all makes perfect sense. This triggers a bout of depression, a trip to Dallas to see for himself, a run-in with a helpful and polite policeman, and a reversal of his anti-government views overall — until Hank needs his paranoid knowledge of local officials and their private details to fix a bureaucratic snafu, and everything's back to how it was. | |
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In Flashpoint (1999), Flash's injury occurred when saving JFK from the many bullets that popped up trying to kill him, including from Lee Harvey Oswald, the grassy knoll, and Vandal Savage. | |
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The Discworld novel Jingo uses the assassination of a visiting dignitary in Ankh-Morpork to spoof the JFK conspiracy theories. The Watch come to the conclusion that he was shot in the back by a man in front of him who couldn't possibly have used the bow. Stealth Pun: One witness is a troll-related creature known as a "gnoll". Gnolls are essentially living heaps of dirt, so of course he is covered with grass. Worse than that, a slang term for an informer is a "grass" — so he was a gnolly grass. | |
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In the 1984 thriller Flashpoint, two Texas Rangers discover a buried Jeep with a skeleton, a rifle, and $800,000 in cash out in the desert. They think their fortunes are made; unfortunately it turns out the dead man was the real assassin of JFK, and the U.S. Government is willing to go to great lengths to destroy the evidence — and anyone who's seen it. | |
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MADtv (1995) had a recurring sketch about a kids' TV show called "The Reading Caboose". It centered around two conspiracy theorists trying to teach kids about the JFK assassination (and other theories) and avoiding repeated attempts made to silence them. | |
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In Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, there is a book with the title How America Was Saved From Communism: Elvis Shot JFK. | |
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In The Manhattan Projects, fitting the story's Beethoven Was an Alien Spy-style Alternate History, Oswald is revealed to be the fall guy for William Westmoreland, using Leslie Groves' magic bullet, under the orders of Lyndon Johnson, in retaliation Kennedy's attempt to take over the eponymous Projects. | |
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In an episode of Early Edition, Gary finds the real shooter and prevents him from assassinating the current president. | |
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In one of a series of Columbo tie-in novels each involving famous crimes of the past, Columbo's homicide investigation touches on the JFK assassination. It turns out that there really was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, but Oswald beat the hired assassin to the punch. Said assassin then skips town with his pay before the conspiracy realizes that Oswald was the killer, thus sparking the events of the book. | |
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In the The Twilight Zone (1985) episode "Profile in Silver", a time-travelling history professor prevents Kennedy's assassination, but history corrects itself by causing the assassination of Nikita Khrushchev, thus creating a timeline where mankind eventually goes extinct because of the nuclear war this sparks. When informed of this, Kennedy volunteers to go back, which impresses the professor so much that he sends JFK to the future, goes back in time himself, and dies in Kennedy's place, returning the timeline to normal. The Aesop? Don't mess around with history. Extra points for the professor being JFK's very distant descendant (but not an Identical Grandson), and JFK becoming a professor of history himself. | |
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The Wrong Guy gets an honorable mention for its offside proposal of the No Bullet Theory: | |
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In The House of Yes, the main character confuses JFK's murder with the (possible) murder of her father, implicating that her mother killed JFK. She was not well. | |
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The film and novel Winter Kills is a fictionalized version of a Kennedy conspiracy theory, where the late President's brother (Jeff Bridges) hears the confession of a man who claims to have been the second gunman — in the course of investigating, Bridges discovers their own father behind the assassination. | |
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JFK by Oliver Stone is the Trope Maker, to the extent that many instances of the trope will be a send-up of the film. It did not reach any tangible conclusions about the assassination, aside from that there must have somehow been a conspiracy, and that the late Clay Shaw was probably involved somehow. The film helped popularize such terminology as the "magic bullet" and the "smoke from the grassy knoll". But it wasn't really advocating for a conspiracy, instead serving as an allegory for the general public's frustration at not knowing the definitive truth about the assassination. Stone's follow-up movie Nixon has more subtext about the assassination. First, a scene set the day before the assassination has Richard Nixon meeting with some shadowy big business and Cuban exile types who encourage him to run for President in 1964 and suggest he won't have to run against Kennedy this time.note By a quirk of coincidence (or not, as conspiracy theorists may tell you), Nixon really was in Dallas on that day, leaving the city just hours before Kennedy arrived. No word on whether he met with any shady businessmen, though. Then it references Richard Nixon's mention of "the whole Bay of Pigs thing" being blown open by Watergate and the theory that Kennedy was assassinated in retaliation (Nixon's belief that he was personally responsible for the situation spiraling out of control might just be his paranoia at work, though). |
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Don DeLillo's Libra is a fictional biography of Lee Harvey Oswald with a bit of Greek tragedy that has him blaming fate itself for the shooting in Dallas. To be specific, Oswald in the book is not the only gunman; there are also two guys on the grassy knoll, one of whom fires the fatal headshot. The conspiracy is cooked up by a bunch of disgruntled CIA operatives who initially just want there to be a rumour about a planned assassination, but then realise that they'll have to do it for real. | |
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Blind Horizon alludes to JFK conspiracy theories, including using three hitmen to provide "triangulation of crossfire" and Frank's rendezvous with the other hitman in a movie theater, paralleling Oswald's visit to a theater which some theorists believe was for the same purpose. | |
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One Wolverine story has a flashback to 1963 where Logan is being held in a CIA cell in Dallas after performing a mission. | |
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Billy Bat: It was done by a conspiracy to fulfill the Billy Bat's commands. Oswald was at work in the level beneath the shooter's, watching the parade, and became the fall guy. | |
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The Red Dwarf episode "Tikka to Ride" has the crew causing a Bad Future by travelling back in time to 1963 (by mistake — they'd originally intended to hit the 23rd century in order to replenish their depleted stock of curry) and accidentally knocking Oswald out of the window before he can fire the fatal shot. Kennedy survives but goes on to get impeached for having an affair with the mistress of a mafia boss, causing a scandal that traumatises America and allows the Soviet Union to win the Space Race, while the mob blackmails the next President into allowing the Russians to install missiles in Cuba, causing a mass evacuation of the southern states. They initially try to restore history by sending Oswald up to the sixth floor of the Depository (Oswald originally fired from the fifth), but this makes his trajectory so steep that Oswald can only wound Kennedy. So they need a second gunman to shoot Kennedy from the grassy knoll; with none of them willing to do it, Lister suggests that they bring the disgraced Future Kennedy back in time to shoot himself in order to restore the original timeline. It works. | |
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In The Salton Sea, Vincent D'Onofrio's character "Pooh-Bear" is introduced re-enacting the assassination... with pigeons! | |
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The second and third issue of the 90s DC/Vertigo series Shade, the Changing Man give us a Sphinx with JFK's head that asks people this question and eats them when they're unable to answer. The JFK-Sphinx's madness is fueled by a Kennedy admirer-turned conspiracy theorist. In the end, he's forced to ask the question, and says we're all responsible, for letting the President's death overshadow his life, but the real truth is confronting the manifestation of his obsession allows him to come to terms with the death of his young daughter, which he can only blame on life's unfairness. | |
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MAD likes its jokes about the JFK conspiracy. They once filled a whole page with particularly outlandish theories, ranging from Aristotle Onassis doing it (i.e. Jackie's second husband — cue tanker on the crime scene) to Zapruder doing it (you still think it was just a camera?) to "we all did it" (a Shout-Out to the The Rolling Stones, as seen above). Another article, "Commemorative Plates of Revisionist History", depicts JFK shooting himself to prevent the exposure of his plot to turn the U.S. government over to The Pope. | |
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From the regular Marvel Universe, meanwhile, we have the following: After Bucky Barnes is outed as the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye incredulously asks if he shot JFK. He's summarily informed that it was the CIA, because JFK was a Skrull. One Wolverine story has a flashback to 1963 where Logan is being held in a CIA cell in Dallas after performing a mission. One issue of Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 2 has Captain America mention to Nick Fury, in an attempt to convince him not to reveal the existence of the villain's Doomsday Device, that JFK was killed by "Cuban nationalists", which was covered up to prevent a war. This is, however, the same storyline that gave us Spider-Man with organic web shooters, insect telepathy, and Spider M-Preg, so no one takes it particularly seriously. |
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In one 2000 AD short, a future Kennedy travels back in time to kill 1963 Kennedy to reverse the consequences of a disastrous war. | |
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In one episode of Walker, Texas Ranger, Walker is tracking down "The Viper", a notorious assassin. While talking with an Interpol agent, it eventually comes out that The Viper was the second shooter. It's also revealed that a very young Walker was at the parade, and very few feet away from JFK when he was shot. | |
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The Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Suite alludes to Number Five being involved in the Kennedy assassination, but the point is never elaborated on. Dallas reveals that Number Five was sent by the Temps Aeternalis to kill Kennedy, but he changed his mind and instead killed the other assassins. Later (in his personal timeline), he goes back to that day to stop his past self from stopping the assassination. He does so by having his teammate The Rumor pose as Mrs. Kennedy and use her reality-warping powers to kill JFK. |
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In The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne reads a magazine article suggesting that Carlos was the killer, disguised as a known homeless man who was later found dead. | |
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The Department of Truth: Lee Harvey Oswald isn't even sure whether he did it or not, as people's disbelief in his guilt made the matter fuzzy. Whether he ever did it before reality became unclear as a result is unknown. | |
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In "Unusual Suspects", Byers asks this question to X, who snidely replies "I heard it was the work of a lone gunman." This inspires Byers and his friends to name themselves The Lone Gunmen. | |
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The X-Files: The episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" examines through the Lone Gunmens' perspective the potential backstory of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and through it, we're presented with the possibility that he killed Kennedy as a young man at the behest of the American government by taking a potshot at him from a nearby sewer. Although none of the potential events that may or may not have taken place in the Smoking Man's life as seen in this episode are ever confirmed as having any truth to them, on one occasion in another episode he responds to Mulder threatening him by coolly responding that he's "watched presidents die." In "Unusual Suspects", Byers asks this question to X, who snidely replies "I heard it was the work of a lone gunman." This inspires Byers and his friends to name themselves The Lone Gunmen. Ironically the biggest conspiracy nut on the show, Mulder himself, actually says in "Unrequited" that he believes the Warren Commission report. |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, specifically Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this is obliquely referred to in Zola's Motive Rant when he says that "when history did not cooperate... history was changed", with a ominous zoom-in of the Winter Soldier crouched on a walkway with a sniper rifle. | |
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History Matters did an episode on the topic of the assassination, but from a surprisingly seldom-discussed perspective - that of the Soviet Union, in "How did the USSR React to JFK's Assassination?" The simple answer was, even the people in charge of the USSR were alarmed and puzzled by the whole incident, but their biggest reaction behind closed doors was blind panic and to immediately start investigating who did it as well, mainly because if any of the KGB's agents or contacts did it, there was a risk of nuclear war, and nobody wanted that, and having JFK assassinated was not worth that risk. The USSR cooperated with the investigation and turned over to the US all of its files on Lee Harvey Oswald, who was a Marxist who had previously lived in the USSR, but hadn't been recruited by the KGB because he was seen as unreliable (the assassination itself probably vindicated that assessment). The KGB themselves believed the assassination was masterminded by the American far-right in a plot to make the US invade Cuba and start a nuclear war, though not all of the USSR's leadership believed this particular theory. | |
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Nearly the entire second season of The Umbrella Academy (2019) focuses on this trope and Diego's obsession to stop it. Included in the conspiracy theories is the presence of the Majestic 12, the "Umbrella Man" presumed to be the siblings' father in the Frankel Footage, and Mrs. Frankel herself resembling the "Babushka Lady" who films the event. | |
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In the Quantum Leap episode "Lee Harvey Oswald", Sam and Al puzzled about it while he leapt back and forth through the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. In the end, they determine that Oswald acted alone, and Sam leaps out of his body and into Secret Service agent Clint Hill just in time for Oswald to make the shot. Sam's mission was to keep Oswald from killing Jackie Kennedy, who had died in the "original" timeline, according to Al. The series' creator Donald P. Bellisario originally didn't want to make this episode (he had vowed that they would not at the series' beginning) but did a 180 after he started noticing his son and crew fall down the conspiracy rabbit hole after watching JFK — Bellisario actually served with Oswald in the Marines and wanted to show that he was absolutely capable of making that shot. | |
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An official Skirmish map in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun was called "Grassy Knoll". The map featured an urban area with a grassy elevation, and the roads and buildings in similar positions to the real life Dealey Plaza. On top of the elevation was a single custom unit called "Assassin" whose weapon used the "sniper rifle" sound clip and had little effect on vehicles but high damage on infantry. | |
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The Doctor Who Missing Adventures novel Who Killed Kennedy reveals the assassination was a plot by the Master to get World War III started just in time for the First Doctor's arrival on Earth on November 22, 1963, and that the attempt was supposed to fail — so in order to prevent nuclear catastrophe, the narrator of the novel, journalist James Stevens, eventually has to travel back in time from 1996 and shoot Kennedy himself. However, a chapter the writer wrote for the twentieth anniversary has the narrator, with help from the Twelfth Doctor, instead travel back to stop his pregnant girlfriend getting murdered by the assassin before they travelled back, leaving it unclear what actually happened. |
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Sneakers includes a brief conversation between former CIA agent Crease and conspiracy theorist "Mother": | |
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Conspiracy X has one of the most convoluted explanations in any medium: Kennedy found out that his Secret Service agents were working for Aegis (the default conspiracy for the player characters), and tried to blackmail them into becoming his own personal covert operations team. So Aegis decided that Kennedy had to go and got Oswald, one of the successful MKULTRA subjects, to take him out. However, rival conspiracy agency Black Book got wind of the plan, tipped off Kennedy, and made a deal with him that they would stop Oswald — but they didn't get there in time, and Oswald still got two shots off. He missed, but Aegis had a couple of psychics as backup to create the "magic bullet". But even that wasn't the kill shot — that came from a mysterious shooter using an unknown, totally quiet weapon on the grassy knoll, who shot Kennedy at exactly the same moment Oswald did and got him in the head. It's that sort of game. | |
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The Bent Bullet, part of the ARG campaign for X-Men: Days of Future Past, has Magneto as the man on the grassy knoll, having used his powers to alter the trajectory of Oswald's bullet, which led to Kennedy's death. However, it is implied that Magneto was trying to stop the shooter... who was supposedly Mystique and not the real Oswald (though this would seem out of character with her portrayal in the film, where she is stated to have never tried to kill anyone before Trask). In the film itself, Magneto is being held in the Pentagon for it, but claims to Xavier that he was trying to save Kennedy because he was a mutant. We never find out if he was lying or not. |
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Seinfeld: Parodied in an episode in which Newman and Kramer describe an incident where they get spit on by baseball player Keith Hernandez, with both of them getting hit by the same spitwad. Jerry then acts as the token Conspiracy Theorist by claiming that Kramer's story is "impossible", then has the two reenact the scene just like in JFK and claims that "there must have been a second spitter". As an extra gag, Newman's actor Wayne Knight was in JFK, and was reenacting his role in the film as Kevin Costner's character demonstrates the "magic bullet". In another episode, Kramer becomes convinced that Jerry is connected in some way to the CIA and that his life as a comedian has been a cover. |
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The plot of Twin Peaks never actually addresses this, but Cooper muses: | |
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The Colbert Report: Stephen Colbert deduces that JFK was not assassinated the way they say he was — but can't agree on how. At one point, he claims JFK traveled back in time and killed himself. In another episode, he claims that Jackie killed Kennedy. In another, he blamed Bigfoot. In yet another, he claims Oswald indeed killed him, but that Oswald was a robot built by the Cuban government. | |
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LEMMiNO reviews the assassination, focusing on the eyewitness testimony of people in and around the Texas Schoolbook Depository. He concludes that the evidence strongly suggests Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, that the discrepancies among witnesses were not strong enough to suggest otherwise, and that if there was a wider conspiracy it was an unnecessarily convoluted and stupid one. | |
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Watchmen: The opening credits montage depicts Edward "The Comedian" Blake as the shooter on the grassy knoll and suggests Richard Nixon's involvement. It further implies that Blake posed as an informant (presumably Deep Throat) and killed Woodward and Bernstein. | |
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The Puppet History episode "America's First Black Aviatrix" features a musical number by a singing cloud who uses his song's musical break to claim that he witnessed the JFK assassination… but that he can't tell his listeners who carried it out. Only that, indeed, "they did that". It turns out in the next episode that he's actually another character using a holographic disguise, who was probably just making shit up. | |
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Shooter (2007): The ex-sniper protagonist is called in to advise on a planned sniper attempt on the President of the United States, only to discover he's the fall guy for the actual assassination. Later he consults a firearms expert on how the hit could have been carried out, and the JFK assassination theory is discussed. | |
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Discussed in In the Line of Fire: The details of the assassination itself are not called into question, but near the end of the film, Frank (who was one of Kennedy's bodyguards during that day and is haunted by the event) expresses his contempt for all of the drunken armchair theorists who've invented conspiracy theories about it. Even Leary, about as paranoid and anti-government as you can get, never suggests that he thinks Oswald wasn't a lone gunman. | |
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According to a deleted scene in Team America: World Police, it was Winnie the Pooh. | |
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The Onion: The article "Area Man Can Remember Exactly Where He Was, What He Was Doing When He Assassinated John F. Kennedy", the assassination was carried out by a certain Edgar Denton, who was apparently part of a wide-ranging conspiracy involving the CIA, Lyndon Johnson, Ho Chi Minh, Abraham Zapruder, and the Postmaster General John A. Gronouski. This article presents "no bullet" conspiracy theorists, who claim that Kennedy wasn't shot at all; instead, his head exploded due to a sudden, massive spike of blood pressure, or an extreme case of nut allergy. |
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The Invisible Man TV series had a brief reference to this. | |
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The Murdoch Mysteries episode "Back and to the Right", despite being set around 60 years prior to the Kennedy assassination, nonetheless homages most aspects of the conspiracy theories with an apparent assassination attempt on the mayor of Toronto. | |
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In The Professional: Golgo 13, the Kennedy assassination was revealed to have been carried out by the FBI at the request of Corrupt Corporate Executive Leonard Dawson. | |
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In Armageddon (1998), after the drillers are recruited to stop The End of the World as We Know It, they give the government a list of requests, among them being who shot JFK and, "None of them want to pay taxes anymore. Ever." | |
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"After all, it was you and me", at least according to The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil". The Stones recorded the song in early June, 1968. The original lyric was “who killed Kennedy?(singular)� In between sessions, Robert Kennedy was assassinated, and Jagger adjusted the lyric accordingly. |
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In MacBird!, an American political travesty of Macbeth written in 1967 by Barbara Garson, the question of who shot John Ken O'Dunc is asked but never answered. The implication of the parody is that MacBird (i.e. Lyndon Johnson), who thereby becomes President as the witches prophesied, somehow conspired to murder Ken O'Dunc, and perhaps his assassin as well. Bowing to public pressure, MacBird orders a "full investigation" from the Earl of Warren, whose results are not reported in the play. | |
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One of the skits in the comedy film The Kentucky Fried Movie is a commercial for the board game "Scot Free" about the JFK assassination. | |
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Dark•Matter (1999) says that it was Lee Harvey Oswald who shot him, then complicates matters by stating Oswald was under the command of Freemasons, who had Kennedy assassinated as a sacrifice, noting his geographical coordinates were numbers important to Freemason rituals. | |
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In the President's Vampire series, this assassination was, much like nearly everything else in the series, engineered by the Shadow Company. Though it turns out that was just stage one of the plan — they were also supposed to blow up Air Force One while Johnson was on board being sworn in, then leave evidence that pointed towards Cuban agents, in order to trigger World War III. Fortunately, Cade hunted down and killed the team responsible before this could happen. | |
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Evil Genius has the mission “Assassinate Mr. President", where your minions shoot the President… With a drug filled dart. You don’t actually kill him, that would generate a suicidal amount of heat. | |
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GURPS Technomancer mentions that Oswald was using a CIA-developed Magic Bullet spell. Exactly how he got his hands on it is unexplained... | |
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In the early stages of production on Star Trek II, Gene Roddenberry proposed a storyline in which the time-traveling crew of the Enterprise assassinates JFK to repair a corrupted timeline. Paramount rejected it and demoted Roddenberry from executive producer to executive consultant. | |
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Some American listeners mistook Elvis Costello's song "Less than Zero" for this trope because of its reference to a "Mr. Oswald." (It was actually a righteously angry Take That! to British fascist Oswald Mosley.) Costello had a sense of humor about the misunderstanding, and composed an alternate lyric which is about the assassination, told from the perspective of a Secret Service agent's unfaithful (and seemingly implicated) wife. | |
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In The Good Place, Janet conjures up an elephant made of pure light that tells one the secrets of the universe. The first thing it says is "Shirley Temple killed JFK." | |
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A long-circulated piece of Internet humor calling for the return of the United States to Great Britain has a list of conditions, one of which is "Please tell us who shot JFK. It's been driving us nuts." The American retaliation reads "We'll tell you who shot JFK when you apologise for the Teletubbies." | |
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In Wanted, Mr. Rictus references this trope when he sarcastically claims Lee Harvey Oswald killed Wesley's father. Wesley's father later claims to have "killed presidents from grassy knolls". | |
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NewsRadio: In Bill's goodbye letter to Jimmy James, he thanks him for letting him in on who really killed Kennedy. | |
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Murder, She Wrote: In "Dead Eye", Jessica gets involved in a murder centered on a set of photo negatives that prove the involvement of an organized crime figure in the Kennedy assassination. At the end of the episode, the negatives are lost in the harbor and the mob boss dies trying to escape the police, with the implication that someone might have tampered with his brakes. | |
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NUMB3RS: A subplot of the fifth season episode "Conspiracy Theory" deals with Colby and David arguing about who shot at Kennedy with David bringing up theories and Colby dismissing them. By the end of the episode, they try to get Alan to referee, but Alan gets them to cut a truce and get over the issue. | |
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In Annie Hall Woody Allen's character flashes back to him arguing with one of his ex-wives played by Carol Kane about who killed JFK. | |
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In The Stand, it's implied in passing that Randall "the dark man" Flagg had a passing acquaintance with Oswald, and — given the context of the passage — might just have influenced him to pick up the gun. | |
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100 Bullets has Joe DiMaggio, of all people, taking shots from the grassy knoll — he was pissed off that Jack Kennedy had Marilyn Monroe killed when she wanted to go public about her affair with the President. But DiMaggio does say that other people were shooting too, and he's not sure if his bullets were the fatal ones. Indeed, he's surprised to learn from Agent Graves that he wasn't part of any conspiracy; it was simply pure luck he picked that exact day and location to kill Kennedy. | |
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Dilbert: In "The Assistant", the company that Dilbert works for had Kennedy killed, as a marketing stunt to draw attention to their line of pillbox hats. It continues to have "unforseen repercussions". | |
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In the Metal Gear Solid universe, Word of God says the Boss killed JFK, but this never comes up in the games. | |
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Referenced in Psychonauts in the Milkman Conspiracy level. Raz must navigate a field of trenchcoat wearing G-Men holding rifles while another shooter tries to hit him from the Book Depository. | |
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Girls' Frontline features Carcano M91/38 as an obtainable character. Being the personification of the gun used to kill JFK, she does reference the assassination within her description. | |
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On Strangers with Candy, Mr. Noblet (played by Stephen Colbert, who shows up elsewhere on this page peddling his theories) tells his history class that syphilis is one of the most destructive forces in human history ("right up there with Germans"): | |
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Buck Danny: Alluded to in the Borneo story arc. The Mafia middleman running the opium plantation on the island warns Danny that he shouldn't underestimate his organization: the Kennedys did, and look what happened to them. | |
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In Bull Durham, Kevin Costner's character concludes a famous (though dramatically unjustified) rant by saying "I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone." Of course, this is not what he believed as Jim Garrison in JFK. The year JFK was nominated for Best Picture, a clip of the Bull Durham line was shown at the Oscars, which got a big laugh. | |
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In a 1992 Saturday Night Live Weekend Update skit, then-anchor Kevin Nealon discussed a then-recent report on the trajectory of the fatal bullet, claiming that its path had been tracked to Albertville, France, where it would be competing in the skiing events of the upcoming Olympics. Citing the many conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination, Nealon snarked: | |
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Salt: Salt (played by Angelina Jolie) interviews an aging former Soviet agent who claims that Lee Harvey Oswald was substituted with a Soviet Body Double early on during his time in Russia. It was this double who actually performed the shooting.note This is one of the lesser-known conspiracy theories, but nonetheless is a "real" theory. | |
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The Captain America (1990) movie showed that the Red Skull trained Oswald, as well as Sirhan Sirhan (who shot Robert Kennedy) and James Earl Ray (who shot Martin Luther King). | |
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One issue of Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 2 has Captain America mention to Nick Fury, in an attempt to convince him not to reveal the existence of the villain's Doomsday Device, that JFK was killed by "Cuban nationalists", which was covered up to prevent a war. This is, however, the same storyline that gave us Spider-Man with organic web shooters, insect telepathy, and Spider M-Preg, so no one takes it particularly seriously. | |
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Parodied in Robot Chicken, in which a mongoose with a sniper rifle does the job. | |
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In Leverage, the assassination is the basis for a Seinfeldian Conversation between Eliot and Sterling on a job. The camera returns to them in the throes of a shouting match in which Sterling loudly and unequivocally proclaims it "absolutely humanly impossible" for the rifle to be fired that fast. Naturally, Eliot's pulled it off.note Sterling's definitely wrong, by the way; one documentary about the assassination specifically addressed the timing of the shots and showed a senior citizen could easily cycle and dry-fire the same model of rifle quickly enough to match the timing of the shots. So not a great result for Eliot either. | |
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Stone's follow-up movie Nixon has more subtext about the assassination. First, a scene set the day before the assassination has Richard Nixon meeting with some shadowy big business and Cuban exile types who encourage him to run for President in 1964 and suggest he won't have to run against Kennedy this time.note By a quirk of coincidence (or not, as conspiracy theorists may tell you), Nixon really was in Dallas on that day, leaving the city just hours before Kennedy arrived. No word on whether he met with any shady businessmen, though. Then it references Richard Nixon's mention of "the whole Bay of Pigs thing" being blown open by Watergate and the theory that Kennedy was assassinated in retaliation (Nixon's belief that he was personally responsible for the situation spiraling out of control might just be his paranoia at work, though). | |
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At the end of The Rock, Nicolas Cage recovers the microfilm (containing everything the government doesn't want you to know) that Sean Connery's character had stolen and caused him to be locked away for so many years. As he drives away from the hiding-place, he looks through the film and asks his wife "You wanna know who really killed JFK?" (Which doesn't make sense, however — Sean Connery's character went to prison before JFK was shot. Ahh, maybe he planned it years in advance.) | |
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Subverted on Duckman: Coming face-to-face with the leader of a conspiracy, the leader explains all the 20th Century events they're responsible for. When asked about JFK, he just says that was a lone gunman. | |
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In Gone Home, Sam and Katie's father Terry promotes a book he wrote about several conspiracies, including one theory seen on Terry's wall suggesting JFK was kidnapped and the assassination was a cover-up. The book barely sells, with a majority of the unsold books taking up space in the house. It sends Terry into further despair. | |
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy had a field day with this one. Oswald is about to shoot when he spots the man on the grassy knoll, who in turn is about to shoot when he sees a rifle poking out of a sewer grate, who in turn.... In its entirety, there was Oswald in the book depository, Harry Coin at the sewer at the Triple Underpass, a mafia gunman on the roof of a nearby restaurant, John Dillinger (one out of five) on the Grassy Knoll, and a fifth man behind him, who actually shot the fatal shots. Motive? Kennedy's speech about the final frontier made the stock prices of "Blue Sky Inc." skyrocket, just after the man had sold all his shares. | |
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In Bubba Ho Tep, He's Just Hiding in a retirement home with Elvis Presley and fighting an evil mummy. To prevent him from being recognized, the CIA turned him into a black man. | |
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In Witchblade, Sara is investigating the murder of a guy who made off with the Zapruder Film, while being haunted by the ghost of JFK himself. | |
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Zoolander has a Conspiracy Theorist reveal that all the major political assassinations of the past few centuries were pulled by the fashion industry using male models as assassins. When it's pointed out that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't a male model, the Conspiracy Theorist reveals that the two shooters on the Grassy Knoll were. | |
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If Blackadder ever had a sixth series, it would have shown Baldrick accidentally killing the President while playing around with a gun in Dallas. | |
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In 100th Video Spectacular! (MEGA COLLAB)! by Matt Santoro, Zak says that Matt, who was only 28 at the time of the video, helped kill John F. Kennedy. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Deadly Assassin" riffs off this as a Whole-Plot Reference: the Doctor gets framed for assassinating the Lord President of Gallifrey with a sniper shot from a high vantage, and has to prove a second gunman did it. "Rose": A man who's been collecting information about the Ninth Doctor reveals he was present at the assassination, with the tone of his voice suggesting he believes the Doctor had something to do with it. It's never mentioned again, but the implication from the photo (and given what we know about him) is that the Doctor was actually there to find out for himself what was going on. This interesting line in "Let's Kill Hitler": |
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MarrissaTheWriter claims, in HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE, that Robert and Rosalind Lutece did it, as he was actually GLaDOS in disguise, sent back in time to prevent Marrissa Roberts from being born. | |
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Child of the Storm, unlike the canon Marvel Universe, states that the Winter Soldier did in fact kill Kennedy. Specifically, he was the main shooter, Natasha was on the grassy knoll, Oswald was the fall guy, and Jack Ruby was a patsy whom Natasha seduced and manipulated into killing Oswald in order to cover their tracks. | |
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Deus Ex: DeBeers implies that the Illuminati had JFK killed when he said too much. | |
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In an issue of Teen Titans meant to replicate the feel of Silver Age craziness, Kennedy wasn't shot at all — a shapeshifting alien doppelgänger had replaced him, so that the real Kennedy could be brainwashed into fighting a war on the alien's home planet. To make matters worse, the Titans get Kennedy back just in time to see Alien Kennedy getting buried, so instead he decides to become a traveling spaceman superhero. | |
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In Call of Duty: Black Ops, it's implied that the main character, Alex Mason, was the one who killed JFK due to being conditioned mentally with number codes after being captured by the Russians. That said, it may still have been Oswald, as Mason's brainwashing was hijacked by Reznov and redirected at Reznov's enemies, who were in charge of the whole brainwashing thing. The end credit scene where a brainwashed agent assassinates Kennedy is done from first person, so we don't know who it actually was. | |
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The controversial JFK: Reloaded recreates that fateful day from Lee Harvey Oswald's point of view, the point of the challenge being whether the shots fired according to the Warren Commission can be reproduced by the player. That's three shots, one right in front of the car, the second causing one injury in Kennedy's neck and three in Connally (through the torso, wrist, and thigh), and the final one taking off the back of Kennedy's head. The game makes it depressingly easy to assassinate the president, and many players amuse themselves by making the kill in as creative a way as possible, such as shooting Kennedy's driver and killing Kennedy in the ensuing crash. | |
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In Ken Grimwood's Replay, the protagonist attempts during one of his "replays" to thwart the assassination of JFK by forging a threatening letter bearing Lee Harvey Oswald's name and address and mailing it to the White House, leading to Oswald's arrest. However, the assassination still plays out exactly the same (including Ruby's murder of the assassin), except a different man takes Oswald's place, leading to speculation that there was a conspiracy, and the plotters had back-up shooters prepared to step in. | |
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Nicholas A. DiChario's story "The Winterberry" (collected in Alternate Kennedys) is told from the point-of-view of a brain-damaged JFK, officially dead and hidden away in order to avert a national crisis. | |
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In the QI episode "Journeys", Stephen comments that, unlike everyone else in the show, he's old enough to remember the assassination. Phil Jupitus suggests that he remembers it because he was standing on a grassy knoll with a rifle in his hand. | |
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In the Paris Burning 'verse, it's strongly implied that Washington DC did it. | |
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The Red Skull was responsible for this in The Ultimates. The sad thing is that this is one of his lesser crimes, and he did it asa personal statement to reject his role as America's agent after literally cutting off his own face. | |
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Referenced by Worms Armageddon with the superweapon called "Patsy's Magic Bullet". | |
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One issue of Hellblazer (during the short-lived run by Warren Ellis) suggests that Kennedy arranged his own assassination (as pictured above, The Greys and The Reptilians were also involved) because he caught his wife getting it on with a snake demon and enjoying it. This, though, is one of several tall tales John Constantine is telling a gullible reporter before faking his death at the hands of the conspiracy to lead him away from a perfectly mundane drug trafficking ring in Buckingham Palace — he also tells him that The British Royal Family are also secretly snake demons and killed Princess Diana because she was secretly impregnated by one of them.note This is probably a reference to David Icke's belief that the Royal Family (and most important people in the world) are really lizard people in disguise. | |
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Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail: According to Barnes, an operative named Yevgeny Ochinko shot JFK. The Asset/Winter Soldier (Barnes' former self, under Soviet and HYDRA control at the time) shot Ochinko and dumped his body outside Fort Worth. | |
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1963 has both "Leo Harley Osborne" and the men on the grassy knoll as the would-be assassins, all acting on orders from the Communist supervillain, the Red Brain. The assassination itself is foiled due to the efforts of a time-traveling '90s Anti-Hero and the Ultimate Special Agent. An attempt is soon made on Osborne's life by a nightclub owner named Brian Ruby — secretly the Red Brain (note the Meaningful Name) trying to silence an accomplice. | |
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Pre-Internet, pre-home video, a crudely edited gag film clip combined elements of multi-generational copies of a short by The Three Stooges and the Zapruder Film to make it look like Curly shot JFK. | |
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Family Guy: Parodied in a cutaway implying that Lee Harvey Oswald was a poor marksman; Oswald is cheering for Kennedy from the sixth story window when he sees a shooter on the grassy knoll about to fire on the president. Drawing a rifle, he takes aim and says "All right, Lee, time to become an American hero!" Parodied in another cutaway when Brian and Stewie travel to a parallel universe in which "Frank Sinatra never used his influence to get Kennedy elected, which led to Nixon botching the Cuban Missile Crisis", resulting in a completely vaporized Quahog. When Brian asks who Lee Harvey Oswald shot, Stewie casually replies "Mayor McCheese". |
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Twilight Struggle references the JFK assassination with the "Lone Gunman" card, a Mid-War 1-op Soviet event card that allows the Soviet player to look at the US player's hand and then play one operation point on the board — it's effectively the Soviet version of the Early War card "CIA Created". The game makes no claim that the Soviets had any hand in the assassination; rather, it represents Soviet willingness to capitalize on the chaos caused by the shocking event. | |
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Spoofed when Homer and Marge are said to be looking for "their own mystery", and cuts to the two going through books with a sign saying "Who really shot JFK?". Homer's conclusion? "Lee Harvey Oswald was trying to steal the Jack Ruby!" He's very disappointed when he learns that Jack Ruby was actually a man. | |
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In the Mahoromatic anime, it was Management, who did it to prevent Kennedy from revealing the existence of Saint or Management to the public. In the manga version, it was a fictional president named "Greg" who was assassinated instead, and there is a mention of an earlier president (whose name wasn't stated) who was assassinated by Management/the Keepers for having seen a Saint spacecraft. | |
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At a low point in A Few Good Men, Kaffee sarcastically suggests that since the lawyers' hard work has served so far only to make their clients look guilty as hell, "if we work hard, maybe we can get Dawson charged with the Kennedy assassination." | |
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There's an official CTF map in Unreal Tournament 2004 named "Grassy Knoll". Besides an abundance of sniper rifles, though, there isn't much of a similarity to the assassination itself. | |
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In Assassins, Oswald is the shooter, with Presidential assassins (successful or not) from John Wilkes Booth clear through to John Hinckley in the Texas Schoolbook Depository encouraging him. Booth even makes references to the various conspiracy theories. | |
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In Assassin's Creed, the Templars killed him because he was going to go public with the existence of the Pieces of Eden. Oswald actually did the deed, Zapruder was his backup, and the shooter on the grassy knoll was a Piece of Eden-created illusion meant to confuse witnesses and muddle up the investigation. | |
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During the brief time in which Ask Vector Prime was hijacked by Sideways, the bot in question claimed to have been responsible for killing JFK. And the dinosaurs. Problem is, he isn't exactly known for being honest. And he's also a Minion of Unicron. | |
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The Last Podcast on the Left made a six part series on the Kennedy Assassination mostly operating under the official story, alongside the theory that the killing shot was an accidental discharge from the Secret Service, however, they also had to devote two whole episodes just for all the conspiracy theories. | |
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Crusader Kings II parodies this with the Flavor Text for one version of the "assassination" plot, which comments that the victim was killed in a barrage of arrows between a "scroll repository" and a grassy knoll. It goes on to say that your co-conspirators are spreading rumors of a "lone bowman" (unless your character was the victim, in which case the button text says "This was no lone bowman!", and the text of the event says that your head was snapped "back and to the left"). | |
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White Men Can't Jump: When Billy is helping Gloria prepare for being a contestant on Jeopardy! by quizzing her on "Presidential Assassinations", he jokes Lee Harvey Oswald's last words were, "It wasn't me, it was the CI-" until he was killed. | |
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It’s been alluded to in Gravity Falls that Bill Cipher, the show’s Big Bad, an inter dimensional chaos demon had a hand in JFK’s assassination, since in a Freeze-Frame Bonus in “Dreamscaperers�, his face is shown among many other famous conspiracies when he mentions he knows “lots of things�. | |
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After Bucky Barnes is outed as the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye incredulously asks if he shot JFK. He's summarily informed that it was the CIA, because JFK was a Skrull. | |
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