History Main / WhoShotJfk

** [[http://www.scpwiki.com/roget-s-conspiracy-theory-for-scp-001 Roget's Proposal II]] states that while, again, Oswald shot JFK, the bullet itself was supercharged with anomalous properties that caused reality to slowly start breaking down from the perspective of future generations, creating, among other things, the Mandela Effect and the slew of conspiracies surrounding Kennedy's assasination. By the time the file is written, the Foundation is left struggling to support [[LastOfHisKind the last people on Earth capable of making consensus truths about reality]].

** The episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" examines through the Lone Gunmens' perspective the possible backstory of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and through it, we're presented with the possibility that ''he'' killed Kennedy as a young man at the behest of the American government by taking a potshot at him from a nearby sewer. Although none of the potential events that may or may not have taken place in the Smoking Man's life as seen in this episode are ever confirmed as having any truth to them, on one occasion in another episode he responds to Mulder threatening him by coolly responding that he's "watched presidents die."

* In Ken Grimwood's ''Literature/{{Replay}}'', the protagonist attempts during one of his "replays" to thwart the assassination of JFK by [[spoiler:forging a threatening letter bearing Lee Harvey Oswald's name and address and mailing it to the White House, leading to Oswald's arrest]]. However, [[spoiler:the assassination still plays out exactly the same (including Ruby's assassination of the assassin), except a different man takes Oswald's place, leading to speculation that there ''was'' a conspiracy, and the plotters had back-up shooters prepared to step in]].

** After ComicBook/BuckyBarnes is outed as the Winter Soldier, ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} increduolously asks if he shot JFK. He's summarily informed it was the CIA, because JFK was a Skrull.

* The 1969 film ''Film/ThePriceOfPower'' is often seen as an even earlier allusion to the Kennedy assassination, but using the 1881 assassination of UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield. It makes heavy use of JFK lore, including the First Lady wearning Jackie Kennedy's pink dress, the Zapruder-style staging of the assassination, the shooter's "improbable accuracy", the murder of the fall guy, and the Vice President conspiring with big business to achieve power (though more sympathetically portrayed than [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson LBJ]] usually is). Oddly enough, it's a SpaghettiWestern.

* In ''Film/BubbaHoTep'', HesJustHiding in a retirement home with Elvis and fighting an evil {{mummy}}. To prevent him from being recognized, the CIA [[MagicPlasticSurgery turned him into a black man]].

* ''On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald'' was a mock trial in 1986 which sought to basically try Oswald for the murder of JFK, with many real witnesses testifying and being examined. The prosecutor was Vincent Bugliosi, famed as leading the successful prosecution of the Manson Family, while Oswald's lawyer was the exerienced defense attorney Gerry Spence, while a real judge presided. Perhaps surprisingly, Bugliosi convinced the jury (who were selected like a real one) to find Oswald guilty of doing it alone (he later argued for this and opposing conspiracy theories in a book).

* In the James Woods vehicle ''Film/TrueBeliever'', the only eyewitness to the shooting Woods' client did not commit is a conspiracy-obsessed street person. He has to be coached for hours to answer "Lee Harvey Oswald" when the DA tries to discredit him. Later, when the witness' other loopy claim (the victim was not shot by an Asian man) proves true, Woods throws in the line "Does this mean [[Film/ThePresidentsAnalyst the phone company]] killed Kennedy?".

* In ''The Mongoose Deception'' an African-American private detective from Denver stumples on information that unravels the conspiracy to kill Kennedy decades later, which is revealed as involving at least the Mafia (who wanted revenge on Kennedy for cracking down against them) and embittered Cuban exiles who'd blamed him for his refusal to back the Bay of Pigs invasion. He also finds that they had two alternate sites for their attempts against Kennedy in Miami and Chicago, which didn't pan out. A Corsican Mafia hitman (a real one some theorists have claimed was involved) turns out to be the assassin. It's never revealed however who's ultimately behind the plot, implied to be people much more powerful than either the Mafia or Cuban exiles, and possibly with reasons of their own (just using the rest as tools).

* ''Series/TheColbertReport'': Creator/StephenColbert deduces that JFK was not assassinated the way they say he was -- but can't agree on how. At one point, he claims JFK traveled back in time and killed himself. In another episode, he claims that Jackie killed Kennedy. In another, he blamed {{Bigfoot|sasquatchandyeti}}. In yet another, he claims Oswald indeed killed him, but that Oswald was a robot built by the Cuban government.

* Creator/TheHistoryChannel has shown a couple of programs that shot several conspiracy theories staight to hell:

* Seth Myers comments on Bob Dylan's first original recording in years being a 17-minute song about the assassination of John F. Kennedy:

* In ''[=MacBird!=]'', an American political travesty of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' written in 1967 by Barbara Garson, the question of who shot John Ken O'Dunc is asked but never answered. The implication of the parody is that [=MacBird=] (i.e. UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson), who thereby becomes President as the witches prophesied, somehow conspired to murder Ken O'Dunc, and perhaps his assassin as well. Bowing to public pressure, [=MacBird=] orders a "full investigation" from the Earl of Warren, whose results are not reported in the play.

* Parodied in ''Literature/OurDumbCentury'', whose initial article on the JFK shooting alleges that the President was shot by "CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons", and possibly aliens and Governor John Connally as well. His body was then stolen and used for myriad purposes. And all forty-three shooters were gunned down by Jack Ruby. Ultimately, the Warren Commission concludes that its eight members did it acting alone.

** Parodied in [[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E1RoadToTheMultiverse another cutaway]] when Brian and Stewie travel to a parallel universe in which "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 ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'', the act was committed by Grassy Noel Atkinson, who did it because apparently, Kennedy had sex with the alien from Roswell and got pregnant as a result. Have to prevent the eggs from hatching, you see. He's hailed as a hero within Cognito Inc. despite being well past his prime -- but his Kennedy assassination skills come in handy when a bunch of JFK clones start taking over the building.

** Spoofed when Homer and Marge are said to be looking for "[[DoubleEntendre their own mystery]]", and cuts to the two going through books with a sign saying "Who really shot JFK?". Homer's 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.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation:

* ''WebVideo/HistoryMatters'' did an episode on the topic of the assassination, but from a surprisingly seldom-discussed perspective - that of the Soviet Union, in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFEZiFosi8I "How did the USSR React to JFK's Assassination?"]]'' The simple answer was, ''even the people in charge of the USSR'' [[NotMeThisTime were alarmed and puzzled by the whole incident,]] but their biggest reaction behind closed doors was [[MassOhCrap blind panic]] and to immediately start investigating who did it as well, mainly because if any of the KGB's agents or contacts did it, there was a risk of nuclear war, and ''nobody'' wanted that, and having JFK assassinated was ''not'' worth that risk. The USSR cooperated with the investigation and turned over to the US all of its files on Lee Harvey Oswald, who was a Marxist who had previously lived in the USSR, but hadn't been recruited by the KGB because he was seen as unreliable (the assassination itself probably vindicated that assessment). The KGB themselves believed the assassination was masterminded by the American far-right in a plot to make the US invade Cuba and start a nuclear war, though not all of the USSR's leadership believed this particular theory.

-->'''Brian:''' That joke's not in bad taste, is it?\\

** Spoofed when Homer and Marge are said to be looking for "[[DoubleEntendre their own mystery]]", [[UnEntendre and cuts to the two going through books with a sign saying "Who really shot JFK?"]]. Homer's 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.

* In ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', after the drillers are recruited to stop TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, they give the government a list of requests, among them being who shot JFK and, "None of them want to pay taxes anymore. Ever."

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* In the ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "Lee Harvey Oswald", Sam and Al puzzled about it while he leapt back and forth through the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. [[spoiler:In the end, they determine that Oswald acted alone, and Sam leaps out of his body and into Secret Service agent Clint Hill just in time for Oswald to make the shot. Sam's mission was to keep Oswald from killing ''Jackie'' Kennedy, who had died in the "original" timeline, according to Al]]. The series' creator Creator/DonaldPBellisario really wanted to make an episode like this -- he actually served with Oswald in the Marines and wanted to show that he was absolutely capable of making that shot.

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

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' likes its jokes about the JFK conspiracy. They once filled a whole page with particularly outlandish theories, ranging from Aristotle Onassis doing it (''i.e.'' Jackie's second husband -- cue tanker on the crime scene) to Zapruder doing it (you still think it was just a camera?) to "we all did it" (a ShoutOut to the Music/TheRollingStones, as seen above). Another article, "Commemorative Plates of Revisionist History", depicts JFK shooting himself to prevent the exposure of his plot to turn the U.S. government over to UsefulNotes/ThePope.

* Andy Prieboy's "Tommorrow Wendy" (although the Concrete Blonde cover is probably better known):

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' likes its jokes about the JFK conspiracy. They once filled a whole page with particularly outlandish theories, ranging from Aristotle Onassis doing it (''i.e.'' Jackie's second husband -- cue tanker on the crime scene) to Zapruder doing it (you still think it was just a camera?} to "we all did it" (a ShoutOut to the Music/TheRollingStones, as seen above). Another article, "Commemorative Plates of Revisionist History", depicts JFK shooting himself to prevent the exposure of his plot to turn the U.S. government over to UsefulNotes/ThePope.

* ''JFK: The Smoking Gun'', a Reelz produced special, put forth the idea that JFK's death was an accident, and that Secret Service Agent George Dickey's AR-15 went off by accident when the car lurched following Oswald's first and second shots, fatally striking the injured Kennedy in the head.

* ''Film/ExecutiveAction'', from 1973, was one of the earliest films to discuss the topic. It described the assassination from the point of view of the conspirators, a bunch of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive industry tycoons]] who was Kennedy's increasingly liberal ways and mishandling of foreign policy as threats to their interests (as well as a possible follow-up presidency from Bobby or Ted). Three gunmen are hired to give "triangulation of fire", and a Lee Harvey Oswald impersonator is sent to be publicly conspicuous before the event.
* The 1969 film ''Film/ThePriceOfPower'' is often seen as an even earlier allusion to the Kennedy assassination, but using the 1881 assassination of UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield. It makes heavy use of JFK lore, including the First Lady wearning Jackie Kennedy's pink dress, the Zapruder-style staging of the assassination, the shooter's "improbable accuracy", the murder of the fall guy, and the Vice President conspiring with big business to achieve power (though more sympathetically portrayed than [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson LBJ]] usually is. Oddly enough, it's a SpaghettiWestern.

** The episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" examines through the Lone Gunmens' eyes the possible backstory of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and through it, we're presented with the possibility that ''he'' killed Kennedy as a young man at the behest of the American government by taking a potshot at him from a nearby sewer. Although none of the potential events that may or may not have taken place in the Smoking Man's life as seen in this episode are ever confirmed as having any truth to them, on one occasion in another episode he responds to Mulder threatening him by coolly responding that he's "watched presidents die."

** The episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" examines through the Lone Gunmens' eyes the possible backstory of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and through it, we're presented with the possibility that ''he'' killed Kennedy as a young man at the behest of the American government by taking a potshot at him from a nearby sewer. Although none of the potential events that took place in the Smoking Man's life as seen in this episode are ever confirmed as having happened or not, on one occasion in another episode he responds to Mulder threatening him by coolly responding that he's "watched presidents die."

* A RunningGag on ''Podcast/BehindTheBastards'' is that every time the Kennedy Assassation pops up as a tropic, the host, Robert Evans, will jokingly insist that UsefulNotes/BernieSanders was the actual assassin, that he shot Kennedy from the grassy knoll, and that he also somehow managed to frame Oswald for the crime.

-->'''Gushie:''' No conspiracy?
-->'''Al:''' No. Just one angry, envious man who-who wanted to propel himself into infamy.
-->'''Gushie:''' But one lone man?
-->'''Al:''' I know, it's more comforting to believe in plots, because if Kennedy could be killed that easily by one sicko, what hope is there for the rest of us?

** The episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" examines through the Lone Gunmens' eyes the possible backstory of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and through it, we're presented with the possibility that ''he'' killed Kennedy as a young man at the behest of the American government by taking a potshot at him from a nearby sewer. Although none of the potential events that took place in the Smoking Man's life are ever confirmed as having happened or not, on one occasion he does respond to Mulder threatening him by coolly responding that he's "watched presidents die."

** The Cigarette-Smoking Man ''claims'' to have killed Kennedy (and Martin Luther King as well), though it's not clear whether or not he's being truthful. Indeed, he is equally as dishonest as he is evil.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{CNNNN}}'', we see how the network (then known as CNNN) covered the Kennedy assassination as it happened, with Chris and Julian initially assuming the President's head just exploded from the stress of running the country, and Craig, who suggests he was shot by a lone gunman from a distance, being treated like a crazy conspiracy theorist. Forty years later, Chris still stands by his first theory and the book he wrote on it.

* ''Film/{{Salt}}'': Salt (played by Creator/AngelinaJolie) interviews an aging former Soviet agent, who claims that Lee Harvey Oswald was substituted with a Soviet BodyDouble early on during his time in Russia, who went on to carry out the shooting.

-->'''The Question:''' There ''was'' a magic bullet. It was forged by {{Illuminati}} mystics to prevent us from learning ''the truth''!