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Inside JFK assassination conspiracies from ‘umbrella man’ to the CIA & ALIENS as theorists speculate about unseen files
PRESIDENT John F Kennedy’s assassination has prompted a variety of bizarre conspiracy theories over the years.
JFK was fatally shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and his death immediately sparked widespread speculation — from the infamous “umbrella man” to a CIA “cover-up” and even aliens as theorists speculate about unseen files.
Lyndon B Johnson, who was sworn in as President after Kennedy’s death, is also accused of being a culprit[/caption]
The secrecy around US government documents and the existence of top-secret files linked to the killing has fueled theories that a cover-up took place.
And the Biden administration has a December 15, 2021 deadline to release secret documents to the public.
COVER-UP
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas as he traveled in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
Shortly after, gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old self-proclaimed Marxist, was arrested in a nearby cinema.
He denied shooting anybody, later claiming to reporters that he was a “patsy.”
He was accused of shooting the President dead with a $21 mail-order rifle from a window of the sixth floor of a nearby school textbook warehouse.
Two days after the assassination and his arrest, Oswald was being escorted from Dallas Police Headquarters to county prison.
As he was taken out in front of the world’s media, a man called Jack Ruby stepped forward and shot him dead.
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Ruby was later found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. He appealed but died of an illness in jail before his new trial could take place.
The official Warren Commission report in 1964 found that Oswald had been the lone gunman, and another congressional probe in 1979 found no evidence to support the theory that the CIA had been involved.
But some say this was a cover-up.
UMBRELLA MAN
Some conspiracy theorists have pointed to a mysterious man holding an umbrella and wearing a rain coast as JFK’s motorcade drives down Dealey Plaza.
But it was a dry and warm day in Dallas and “Umbrella Man” was standing close to where Kennedy was shot.
Umbrella Man is described by The Washington Post as the most famous conspiracy theory involving “multiple gunmen centers.”
One speculation is that the Umbrella Man “shot a poison dart into Kennedy’s neck, immobilizing him to allow for Oswald or others to deliver a kill-shot.”
And Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK” showed the Umbrella Man sending signals to his assassin buddies.
The man under the umbrella was eventually revealed to be Louie Steven Witt.
Witt claimed he held the umbrella to protest Joseph P. Kennedy’s appeasement policies.
He also said the umbrella was related to British PM Neville Chamberlain’s umbrella and the conciliation of Hitler and the Nazis.
GRASSY KNOLL
Some people believe the theory about a second gunman who participated in the shooting from the grassy knoll of Dealey Plaza.
The grassy knoll is a small hill inside Dealey Plaza.
Back in 2018, a research study published in the journal Heliyon found that JFK was not shot from the grassy knoll, based on analysis of video footage.
According to the study: “The findings do not entirely rule out a conspiracy, but they do refute the most prominent theories that the fatal shot was fired from the grassy knoll.
“They also oppose the idea that the Zapruder film proves a conspiracy – in fact, the opposite appears to be true.”
Dr Nicholas Nalli, Senior Research Scientist at IMSG, Inc. and study author, said: “I found that the Zapruder film shows President Kennedy being shot from behind and not from the infamous grassy knoll, in corroboration of the official autopsy findings – that’s the only ‘smoking gun’ in the film.
“The historical fact of the matter is that the US federal government investigations were comprised of upstanding civil servants of high ethical standards who, in spite of difficult circumstances, by-and-large got the basics of the case correct.”
COVERT OPERATION BY LYNDON JOHNSON
The vice-president, Lyndon B Johnson, who was sworn in as President after Kennedy’s death, has also been accused of being involved in the assassination by conspiracy theorists.
Some have suggested he wanted to cover up scandals or take control of the country in a coup.
According to CNN, conspiracy researcher Dave Perry slammed this theory as being “based primarily on statements made by Madeleine Brown.”
Brown claimed she had an affair with Johnson and that he attended a party with ex-Vice President Richard Nixon and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover one day before the assassination.
Perry explained that Brown was told by LBJ: “After tomorrow, those Kennedys will never embarrass me again. That’s no threat. That’s a promise.”
But Perry insists: “That’s absolutely not true.”
“We’ve found no evidence, and we know that all the stuff that Madeleine Brown said was contrived,” he said.
CIA PLOT
OSCAR-winning director Oliver Stone has directed a second film about the “cover-up” that followed the shooting on November 22, 1963.
Stone insists the idea that the CIA — America’s Central Intelligence Agency — has hidden the truth is no longer a conspiracy theory, but a “conspiracy fact.”
He has interviewed historians, forensics experts and people intimately involved with the case to make a documentary, JFK Revisited.
Some of the evidence came about as a result of his 1991 film, which was nominated for eight Oscars and won two.
The furor it sparked was enough to convince the US authorities to gradually release documents about the assassination which were supposed to remain classified until 2029.
It is a mystery that has gripped him from the moment the news shook the planet. Stone, who was 17 at the time, says: “When you murder a US president in broad daylight in front of the whole world, people sensed right away there were larger forces than one man at work.”
Meanwhile, Dave Perry told CNN that he has yet to debunk the theory claiming the CIA was “involved.”
Perry said: “Supposedly Kennedy was fed up with the shenanigans that the CIA was pulling.
“He found out the CIA was trying to kill (Cuban leader Fidel) Castro, which is a fact.
“So the argument is that the CIA felt that Kennedy was going to disband them. And as a result of that, they were the ones that ordered the killing of Kennedy.”
ALIENS
Some theorists even believe a secret alien base played a role in the assassination.
According to Spyscape, former US radio personality Milton William Cooper shared the news about an alien base he claimed was on the moon dubbed Project Luna.
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Cooper pushed the conspiracy theory about JFK getting assassinated by an alleged “gas pressure device.”
He said the driver of the president’s limo was supplied by the aliens due to JFK preparing to uncover Washington-alien collusion.
Some people believe the theory about a second gunman who participated in the shooting from the grassy knoll of Dealey Plaza[/caption]
US President John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy sit in a car on May 3, 1961[/caption]
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally are seen moments before the assassination[/caption]
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Why Nevada is the most terrifying state in the US with ghosts, aliens and ‘America’s loneliest road’
IT’S 3.40am in the small US town of Pioche, Nevada.
Six terrified guests sit upright in six separate bedrooms at the “haunted” Overland Hotel and Saloon.
Loud footsteps creak in the hallway. Up the passageway one way, back down the passageway the other. Then silence.
The WhatsApps start buzzing. “Was that you?” “No.” “Was that you?” “No.”
The next morning when our group, sleep-deprived and shaken, gathers for breakfast, hotel manager Wendy tells us: “Well, you were the only guests here last night.”
Spooky.
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Wendy’s grandad came to the area from neighbouring state Utah at the age of nine, alone except for the cattle he was herding.
This gives an insight into the land we are now in — rural Nevada, a collection of ranches and old mining ghost-towns, separated by long, lonely roads and surrounded by beautiful mountains and desert.
Away from the glitz and showbiz of largest city Las Vegas, the state can claim to be the road trip capital of the US.
I’m on a tour of its state parks — it has 23 plus two national parks — and stopping off at one-saloon towns en route.
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The bars are quiet, friendly — and show rodeo on the TV screens. I imagine they are a far cry from when the towns were springing up amid the silver and gold rushes of the late 1800s.
For a flavour of the chaos of those times, you can take a trip to the nearby Boot Hill Cemetery, with its own “murderers’ row” of outlaw graves.
Each is laid out with a ring of stones and marked by timber headstones, with epitaphs that paint a vivid picture of the past.
Take the one for a certain Morgan Courtney: “Feared by some, respected by few, detested by others. Shot in the back five times by ambush.”
Nearby, another simply reads: “Shot in dispute over dog.”
There’s easily enough sticky ends for a hotel full of restless spirits back at the Overland.
Gunslinging ghosts aside, I’m after some wild times and that means getting out into the wilds of the vast natural landscape, which over my few days here is bathed in sun, snow, then sun again.
Nevada is the most mountainous state in mainland US — there are 341 named ranges in the Great Basin alone.
The Great Basin is the country’s largest desert and spans most of the state and several bordering ones too.
The national park there could keep hikers and mountain bikers busy for days, but we make just a flying visit on our road trip north to Ely.
We do at least have time to take in the remarkable Lehman Caves there.
A 90-minute ranger-led tour will take you through just over half a mile of tunnels and larger rooms filled with elegant and intricate stalagmites and stalactites.
Imagine an underground sculpted palace, but all naturally made from rainwater and limestone combining over thousands of years.
Before reaching Great Basin though, we have passed by several smaller state parks.
Ranger Dawn at Cathedral Gorge park tells us there are five in a 50-mile radius.
Each boasts a different landscape and each is worth a visit. Cathedral Gorge gets its name from its unique structure of siltstone “slot canyons”.
These are a maze of tall, thin, pointy, white rocks that you can walk among and between.
Their overall visual effect is reminiscent of the gothic cathedrals of Europe.
Most stolen road sign
The nearby Kershaw-Ryan state park could not be less similar.
It used to be an orchard and garden and is filled with colourful plants and trees.
At Ely we are reminded of the history that formed the towns which sprang up across the state and still maintains them today — and that is mining.
After checking in at the aptly named Prospector Hotel, we take a tour of a historic mining town museum called Renaissance Village.
Its collection of wooden huts used to house workers who travelled from across the world to find their fortune in the copper mines here.
Each has been restored by former cowboy and teacher Glenn Terry.
The insides are kitted out to reflect the different nationalities of miner that would have stayed there, from Chinese to Irish, Italian to Greek.
The town also has a historic steam train that runs themed tours all year.
Our visit was just before Halloween, so it was a spook-fest of elaborately staged murder scenes that dotted the track.
There are 1920s cocktail and stargazing trips too.
There is no shortage of stars to see in the clear Nevada skies.
Far from any light pollution, just look up and you can make out the creamy path of the Milky Way.
The area is so undisturbed, in fact, that the Nevada section of Route 50 — which runs out of Ely and forms part of the 3,000-mile highway that crosses America from east coast to west — is known as America’s Loneliest Road.
You can drive for miles without seeing another car.
You might see a UFO, though. Not far away is Route 375 — also called the ET Highway, and near the secretive Area 51 air force base.
Area 51 has long been associated with UFO investigations and Route 375 has played host to hundreds of unexplained sightings in the sky.
The road sign to mark it is perhaps the most stolen sign in the US. It’s missing during my visit — but this time because a vehicle ran it over.
I stopped at the Alien Research Center (a gift shop, basically) to see a salvaged version of the sign.
While there you can also see official reports of UFOs — and stock up on alien honey, alien cards and alien tequila.
Back on the road and there’s another state park to tick off. This time it’s the Valley of Fire and its giant red-sandstone rocks, with 1,000-year-old art carvings.
This state park in the Mojave Desert is only an hour’s drive from Las Vegas in the south.
A tour of rural Nevada will likely see you fly in and out of this sparkling 24-hour party city.
So you can book-end your trip with nights out on the famous strip.
The endless choice — and sky-high prices — is a world away from the traditional small-town diners you’ll pass on the rest of your tour.
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But what you’ve saved from cheap meals, beers and refill coffees on the road will give you enough for a final blowout at the casino capital of the world. Who knows, you may come home in profit.
Either way, you’ll be richer for the experience of the great outdoors in this vast and varied state.
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GETTING THERE: See virginatlantic.com or ba.com or for direct flights from London Heathrow to Las Vegas. Return BA flights from Heathrow start at £588pp in December.
STAYING THERE: Rooms from £103 a night at Prospector Hotel (prospectorhotel.us) and £82 a night at Overland Hotel (overlandhotelnv.com).
OUT & ABOUT: To plan a road trip and see details of all attractions visited, go to travelnevada.com.
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