What are some of the Kennedy assassination theories?

Answer 1

The official story is single bullet theory, popularly known by skeptics as the "magic bullet" theory: A bullet traveled through the back of the neck and exited through the chest of one man, hit another man in the arm, fragmented into pieces and reassembled itself in a hospital miles away. Many experts have disputed this theory claiming that the rifle used cannot possibly cycle the bolt three times in six seconds without jamming. Rifle experts also noted the implausibility of firing at an oblique moving target from a two-story window. Oswald was a skilled marksman, but even if the magic bullet existed, it is doubtful that he could have fired it. A number of eye witnesses also dispute this theory in their testimony that they heard more than three shots fired from different directions. An alternate theory is that mafia bossman Sam Giancana ordered the hit on Kennedy with help from the CIA. A sharpshooter firing a rifle from the "Grassy Knoll" could have accomplished the assassination, (from which many witnesses saw smoke and heard gunshots) and former Communist defector Oswald was provided as the guilty party. Kennedy had narrowly beat Nixon in the 1960 election, allegedly with mafia support, and he appointed his younger brother Robert as Attorney General who then went after the mob with a vengeance. The mob saw this as a betrayal. Yet, they could not have accomplished the assassination without help from the US government. Oswald had defected to the USSR, but he was allowed to return to the US with his Russian wife in the middle of the Cold War, providing suspicious evidence of US government aid. As a motive for the CIA, they had planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion during the last year of the Eisenhower Adminisatration. Although Kennedy did not like the idea, he allowed the invasion to proceed. It has been suggested that his decision to withhold US Navy air support may have been perceived as a betrayal by the CIA.