History Main / WhoShotJfk

** Spoofed when Homer writes a book, "Who REALLY Shot JFK". Its 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.

* From the regular Franchise/MarvelUniverse, meanwhile, we have this gem, courtesy of EdBrubaker's Comicbook/CaptainAmerica run:

-->'''Brian:''' ''(sarcastic)'' That joke's not in poor taste.\\
'''Stewie:''' Who cares, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman he's a cheeseburger]].

* ''[[http://www.thebentbullet.com/ The Bent Bullet]]'', part of the ARG Campaign for ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' has Magneto as the man on the grassy knoll, having used his powers to alter the trajectory of Oswald's bullet, which lead to Kennedy's death. However, it is implied that Magneto was trying to ''stop'' the shooter... who was actually Mystique and not the real Oswald.

** Speaking of MAD, they filled a whole page with unusual conspiracy theories, ranging from Onassis (cue to tanker on the crime scene) via ZAPruder (you still think that it was just a camera?) to "we all did it" (obviously a nod to the Rolling Stones, see above).

* ''[[http://www.thebentbullet.com/ The Bent Bullet]]'', part of the ARG Campaign for ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' has Magneto as the man on the grassy knoll, having used his powers to alter the trajectory of Oswald's bullet, which lead to Kennedy's death.

* In ''Anime//LupinIIIAlcatrazConnection'', it was [[spoiler:the shutdown of Alcatraz that led to the JFK assassination. Explanation: Nearly all Americans were led to believe that Alcatraz was a prison for the many dangerous criminals and gangsters when, in fact, it was an underground city where they (and even the wardens) lived together and could do whatever they want; it was their so-called "paradise". When John Kennedy found out about this, he ordered the prison to be closed for good. The ex-Alcatraz prisoners weren't very happy about that and took matters in their own hands. Immediately after the assassination, they also killed a witness to cover up the truth. After that, when John's brother Robert Kennedy resigned as attorney and joined the following election, he was assassinated by them too.]]

** In ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', it is hinted that The Comedian and RichardNixon are somehow connected to the assassination in [[AlternateHistory that story's timeline]], while [[Film/{{Watchmen}} the movie]] actually shows The Comedian in the act. But in ''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Comedian definitely didn't do it.]] (And before you reach for that editing button, remember that it's up to each individual reader to decide for themselves whether ''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen'' is canon or not.)

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLg8_EhmNq8 This]] video claims (as a joke, [[PoesLaw probably]]) that the Kennedy was killed by a then two-year-old BarackObama.

* TabletopGame/ConspiracyX: It get's convaluted, Kennedy found out that his Secret Service agents were working for Aegis (the default conspiracy for the player characters) and tried to black mail them into becoming his own personal covert operations team. So Aegis decided that Kennedy had to go and got Oswald, one of the succesful [[{{brainwashing}} MKULTRA]] subjects to take him out. On the day Oswald fired two shots but was interrupted by a Black Book (a rival conspiracy to Aegis) agent sent to stop Oswald as part of agreement they had made with the president once Black Book got wind of the the assassination but Oswald got away by shooting the black book agent who survived due to a BulletProofVest (accounting for the three shells found in the book depository).\\

It get weirder the two shots Oswald fired were off-target so they wouldn't kill Kennedy so two [[PsychicPowers psyhics]] that Aegis had kept as back-up made the bullets zig-zag through the president (a reference to the "magic bullet" trajectory). But this was ''still'' wasn't the the kill shot which came from a mysterious shooter using an unknown quiet weapon who shot at ''the same time'' as Oswald from the grassy knoll that did that damage to Kennedies [[BoomHeadshot head]]. It's that [[ConspiracyKitchenSink sort of game.]]

* In ''[[Manga/LupinIII Lupin III: Alcatraz Connection]]'', it was [[spoiler:the shutdown of Alcatraz that led to the JFK assassination. Explanation: Nearly all Americans were led to believe that Alcatraz was a prison for the many dangerous criminals and gangsters when, in fact, it was an underground city where they (and even the wardens) lived together and could do whatever they want; it was their so-called "paradise". When John Kennedy found out about this, he ordered the prison to be closed for good. The ex-Alcatraz prisoners weren't very happy about that and took matters in their own hands. Immediately after the assassination, they also killed a witness to cover up the truth. After that, when John's brother Robert Kennedy resigned as attorney and joined the following election, he was assassinated by them too.]]

** Also parodied in yet another cutaway when Brian and Stewie travel to a parallel universe in which, quoth, "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 "[[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Mayor McCheese]]".

** In another episode, Professor Frink attempts to implicate Marge in the assassination, showing a courtroom a film of the assassination and pausing on a frame when what appears to be Marge's distinctive hairdo can be seen in the background.
** In "Today I Am A Clown", Homer replaces Krusty while the latter studies for his Bar Mitzvah 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's forced to go back to reality, to continue the conversation... and once he said what he had to, he returned to his fantasies: now there is a man aiming at JFK, and both Homer and Lincoln appear in the scene to give him a beating.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''. 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.

Note that in the above example they went so far as to use fans to generate the ''[[CrazyPrepared exact same wind speed that occurred that day and would have been generated by the car's speed.]]'' They also had fluid in the ballistics dummies designed to replicate bodily fluids, and the spatter pattern of the green gel in the mock car matched that from the assassination car and even replicated the "cloud" pattern seen on the Zapruder film. They also took their sharpshooter (a Sandhurst-trained champion marksman, brought in so they could be sure he'd hit the same spot the assassin hit on the skull, i.e. a target the size of a dime) to three of the purported "second gunman" sites and had him attempt to sight on a car with actors positioned exactly as Kennedy and Jackie were during the final shot. He determined firing from the sewer (à la ''Series/TheXFiles'') would be impossible, a gunman on the overpass wouldn't be able to see Kennedy, and a gunman on the grassy knoll would have resulted in either a dead Jackie (via a through-and-through shot with jacketed ammunition) or a Kennedy with no head left on his corpse (with a soft-nosed round more like what a "professional" sniper would be likely to use). The show went [[UpToEleven well beyond most investigations]] in not only showing the Lone Gunman theory as plausible but the alternatives as impossible. Unless that's what they WANT you to think....

* "After all, it was you and me", at least according to the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil".

* Music/TheMisfits song "Bullet".
* Chumbawamba's "[[ConspiracyKitchenSink Everything You know Is Wrong]]".

* The ''Series/InSearchOf'' 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.

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** The Image comic ''NineteenSixtyThree'' has the "assassin" turn out to be a communist supervillain, Red Brain. A time-and-dimension-travelling NinetiesAntiHero fills in for "Leo Harley Osborne", and explains to the [[FunWithAcronyms Utimate Secret Agent]] (who had just prevented the assassination by filling in for the president) about how on his dimension, Kennedy did die, and everything started sucking. They play with other theories in another story.

** The Image comic ''NineteenSixtyThree'' has the "assassin" turn out to be a communist supervillain, Red Brain. A time-and-dimension-travelling NinetiesAntiHero fills in for "Leo Harley Osborne", and explains to the U.S.A. (who had just prevented the assassination by filling in for the president) about how on his dimension, Kennedy did die, and everything started sucking. They play with other theories in another story.