Dallas
An ABC News investigation has confirmed beyond a doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot President John F. Kennedy, the network announced this week. A sophisticated computer-generated reconstruction of the shooting made it “chillingly clear” that Oswald was the only gunman, said ABC executive producer Tom Yellin. An official government inquiry by the Warren Commission reached the same conclusion a year after the assassination, which took place 40 years ago this month. But the public has remained highly skeptical. More than half of Americans believe other conspirators were involved, a view bolstered by Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK. “People are going to believe what they want,” said Gary Mack, curator of a Dallas museum dedicated to the assassination.
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