The Complete Texas Monthly JFK Archive

Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother wants to tell the world how she got out from under Jackie’s shadow.

by Alexander Cockburn

If you thought you knew, you were probably wrong.

by Gary Cartwright

Twelve years later Hugh Aynesworth is still following the Kennedy assassination story…or is it following him?

by Gary Cartwright

Twenty years ago he thrust himself into our lives; he is there yet.

by Lawrence Wright

A great man was dead and an outraged world desperately wanted someplace to lay the blame. It chose Dallas and changed the city forever.

by Lawrence Wright

Assassination buffs come in all shapes and convictions—archivists, technologists, mob-hit theorists, and more—but they are all obsessed with Lee Harvey Oswald, and his crime is the focus of their lives.

by Ron Rosenbaum

by Gregory Curtis

The case against conspiracy.

by Gregory Curtis

Clues left behind by a former Dallas cop convinced his son that he killed President Kennedy—but that’s just the beginning of the mystery.

by Gary Cartwright

Director Oliver Stone may not be sure who did it or how, but he is sure he knows why.

by Mark Seal

In a chilling excerpt from his autobiography, the late John Connally offers his close-up account of the Kennedy assassination.

by John Connally with Mickey Herskowitz

by Joe Nick Patoski

Rachel Oswald did not kill John F. Kennedy, but for more than three decades she has struggled to make peace with the darkest day in Texas history.

by Keith Kathchik

A new book about Lee Harvey Oswald reveals that conspiracy theorists are still straining to repackage old news into something new.

by Gregory Curtis

A handsome young president, a convertible limousine, a sniper, three shots (we think); and our lives were changed forever. A special report on what is, for many, the defining event of the past fifty years.

On November 22, 1963, I was a police reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I worked the late shift, but I rushed to the office as soon as I heard that President Kennedy had been shot, and I started answering the phones. The first call I took was from the mother of the alleged assassin. She asked me for a lift to Dallas. Guess what I said?

by Bob Schieffer

For forty years Nellie Connally has been talking about that day, when she was in that car and saw that tragedy unfold. She’s still talking—and now she’s writing too.

by Mimi Swartz