Criminal investigation

The Single-Assassin Theory, the Media Establishment and the CIA

The CIA’s longstanding secret campaign to discredit researchers and research critical of the single-assassin claim is a principal reason why the media establishment treats the view that Oswald was the single assassin as a “fact” and dismisses other views of the JFK assassination as “conspiracy theories” (the very term used in the 1967 CIA document). This also explains why the mainstream media pretends that only cranks or kooks dispute the lone-assassin claim.

But the lone-assassin claim is not intrinsically correct, any more than a claim of conspiracy is, and it definitely is not illogical to suggest that the JFK assassination resulted from a conspiracy. The proper way of approaching the matter requires acknowledgment that the sole-assassin claim is a theory and that the claim that there was a conspiracy is also a theory, and that only the particular theory proven by the evidence can be accepted as “fact.”  And of course a conspiracy theory may be true even if the identity of the individual conspirators is unknown and regardless of whether Oswald was one of the conspirators.  

The Oswald-did-it theory is, therefore, but one theory of the assassination. Is it the correct one? That is, does the evidence prove it?