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WAS YOU SAD WHEN JFK WAS KILL?

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Fifty years after the shooting at Dealey Plaza, the conspiracy theories of the assassination — variously blaming the mob, the CIA, Fidel Castro, a Secret Service accident, Lyndon Johnson and others — remain just that, theories.
Questions linger, and some records still remain hidden or lost forever. And most agree that the work of the Warren Commission, the government’s best-known investigation into the killing, which blamed Oswald as the lone gunman, was seriously flawed.
But no one has conclusively proved a conspiracy, Tunheim said.
“People just don’t want to believe that a 24-year-old misfit that has had really an awful life, who has these pro-communist tendencies, difficulty navigating life, could publicly assassinate the leader of the free world,” he said.
“That is still an astonishing fact to people. They want to believe that maybe there was something.”
Most Americans still believe in a conspiracy, polls show, although they are broadly divided about which conspiracy to believe. But the ranks of the conspiracy theorists are shrinking.
A Gallup poll released this month found that 61 percent of Americans believed that more than one person was involved, the lowest figure since the 1960s. An Associated Press poll this year had similar results. WE WILL TALK TO MR. SHANE HARDIN MARY BALLARD AND MRS. OPAL LEE, DO YOU HAVE A STORY? CALL US AT 817-919-5613


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