Texas History
November 22, 2019
JFK’s Assassination Only Grows More Distant at Dallas’s Sixth Floor Museum
Thirty years after opening, the museum approaches its dark history from an increasingly detached remove.
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Texas History
August 14, 2015
The Long, Strange Journey Of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Gravestone Back To Texas
The presumed killer of John F. Kennedy died in Texas, but his gravestone didn't rest in peace.
BOOKS
October 22, 2013
Wandering Oswald
An interview with Peter Savodnik, author of "The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union."
Reporter
October 11, 2013
The Man Who Was There
For fifty years, journalist Hugh Aynesworth has been one of the foremost authorities on the Kennedy assassination for one simple reason: he saw it all.
January 21, 2013
As One Oswald Home Is Demolished, Another Is to Become A Museum
This week, Irving and Dallas took different approaches to residences formerly occupied by JFK's assassin.
January 21, 2013
Did You Say You Wanted to Buy Lee Harvey Oswald’s Bathtub?
The Oak Cliff apartment fixtures that witnessed the 1962-1963 fights between the assassin and his wife are on sale.
News & Politics
January 1, 2003
A Ride for Mrs. Oswald
On November 22, 1963, I was working as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram when I answered the phone—and got a close encounter with history.
Texas History
January 1, 1999
Case Study
ALL OUR LIVES—our beliefs, our government, our history—changed that day [“The Assassination at 35,” November 1998]. I was thirteen when President Kennedy was killed, and I have always believed it was a conspiracy. After this issue, I don’t. Sis Hoskins Cedar Creek A PRISTINE PRIMER. Remarkable writing, editing, and photo
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1998
The Two Oswalds
It’s the most intriguing theory of all: two men with the same identity, one a patsy and the other a murderer who got off scot-free.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1998
The Lone Gunman
Why the Warren Commission was right.
Texas History
February 1, 1997
Bob Schieffer
The day John F. Kennedy was shot, I rushed down to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where I was the night police reporter, to help answer the phones on the city desk. A woman caller asked, “Is there anyone there who can take me to Dallas?” and I said, “Well, this
Texas History
April 1, 1996
The Fourth Tramp
A new book about Lee Harvey Oswald reveals that conspiracy theorists are still straining to repackage old news into something new.
Texas History
March 1, 1995
Lee Harvey’s Legacy
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.
Film & TV
December 1, 1991
Can Hollywood Solve JFK’s Murder?
Director Oliver Stone may not be sure who did it or how, but he is sure he knows why.
Politics & Policy
December 1, 1990
“I Was Mandarin . . .”
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.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1989
Behind the Lines
The case against conspiracy.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1983
The Legacy of Lee Harvey Oswald
Twenty years ago he thrust himself into our lives; he is there yet.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1983
Why Do They Hate Us So Much?
A great man was dead and an outraged world desperately wanted someplace to lay blame. It chose Dallas and changed the city forever.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1983
Still on the Case
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.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1983
They Can’t All Be Right
After twenty years these are the assassination theories that still survive.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1983
Pieces of the Puzzle
Great moments in the conspiracy time line.
Texas History
November 1, 1975
Who Was Jack Ruby?
If you thought you knew, you were probably wrong.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1973
Mother of the Decade
Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother wants to tell the world how she got out from under Jackie’s shadow.