So I’m very dead certain at least one shot, including the one that took the president’s skull off, had to come from the right front. And I’ll stand by that ’til my death. Over my mother’s grave.
Phillip Willis, witness

JFK had made definite steps to end the cold war. He had denied the involvement of the army in the Bay of Pigs invasion, which he had inherited from his predecessor, he had solved the missile crisis in Cuba through direct and secret contact with the Soviet leader Khrushchev, he had ensured a nuclear test-stop with the Soviets, and he had ordered the withdrawal from Vietnam. All this against the will of the military, the CIA, and even against many members of his own administration.
Mathias Broeckers, investigative journalist

He just wasn’t the president elected by some unknown party out there, he was elected by us, the citizens of the United States of America. He was my president, and I felt very personally violated. And then to see him assassinated that way, so graphically. It was horrifying. My president.
Beverly Oliver, witness

The headshot seemed to come from the right front. It seemed to strike him here (motions with hand to right front of head). His head went back, and all the brain matter went out the back of the head. It was like a red halo. A red circle with the bright matter in the middle of it.
Marilyn Willis, witness

A lot of people had motives, be it the hardcore commies in Russia, China, Cuba, be it the Israelis because of JFK’s dismissal of nukes in Israel, be it the Federal Reserve because of his idea for a new US dollar backed by silver, the mob because of his dismissal to invade Cuba to get their casinos and brothels back, the racist southerners because of his engagement for civil rights. But no one of them had the means and opportunity for the murder and above all the means to cover it up over the years.
Mathias Broeckers, investigative journalist

The autopsy photographs show a massive wound, but it’s in the right temporal area and into the parietal, which is behind it, between the two. It is inconceivable to me that every single one of the witnesses who saw the president’s head could be wrong, and specifically wrong, about this particular wound. They describe an avulsed, exploded open wound in the rear of the head. And in the autopsy photographs you see a small neat wound of entrance. It’s obvious to me that those photographs have been faked.
Robert Groden, photo analyst

What really happened?
Nikita Khrushchev

He looked far ahead and he wanted to change a great deal. Perhaps it is this that is the key to the mystery of the death of President John F. Kennedy.
Mikhail Gorbachev

My God, I have his brains in my hand.
Jackie Kennedy

I want to correct what I said before about the vice president.
The vice president? (Interviewer)
When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson -if he was vice president there never would have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy.
Would you explain again? (Interviewer)
Well, the answer is the man in office now.
Jack Ruby

Everything pertaining to what’s happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what has occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I’m in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.
Are these people in high positions? (Interviewer)
Yes.
Jack Ruby

Practically all the cabinet members of President Kennedy’s administration, along with J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI and Chief James Rowley of the secret service, whose duty it was to protect the life of the president, testified that to their knowledge there was no sign of any conspiracy. To say now that these people, as well as the commission, suppressed neglected to unearth, or overlooked evidence of a conspiracy would be an indictment of the entire government of the United States. It would mean the whole structure was absolutely corrupt from top to bottom, with not one person of high or low rank willing to come forward to expose the villany.
Earl Warren, head of the Warren Commission

When I first saw the pictures of the president’s body, so called, wounds, what really struck me, was, especially the head wound. They showed a nice, little, neat round bullet hole in the back of his head. Actually what I saw was the whole side of his head blown off. It was gone. I kon’t know where those things came from. But they are totally wrong. Every one them.
Paul O’Connor, medical technician

We have not been told the truth about Oswald.
Richard Russell, Warren Commissioner

Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission -on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the guns, you name it.
Hale Boggs, Warren Commissioner

What is your government doing to catch the other assassins? It took about three people.
Fidel Castro

And I walked up to the car. Where Mrs. Kennedy was still there, on the back seat, lying there with her head bowed over, covering her husband’s head, his blood running down her leg and bile on her clothes, and twice saying: They’ve murdered my husband.
It’s the most tragic sight of my life.
Senator Yarborough

No matter what they say, Lee Harvey Oswald was a delightful guy. They make a moron out of him, but he was smart as hell. Ahead of his time really, a kind of hippy of those days. In fact, he was the most honest man I knew. And I will tell you this -I am sure he did not shoot the president.
Baron George Sergei de Mohrenschildt

I could never get mad at this fellow. Sometimes he was obnoxious. I don’t know. I had a liking for him. I always had a liking for him. There was something charming about him, there was some -I don’t know. I just liked the guy -that is all. With me he was very humble. If somebody expressed an interest in him, he blossomed, absolutely blossomed. If you asked him some questions about him, he was just out of this world.
Baron George Sergei de Mohrenschildt