Belief in JFK Conspiracy Declining: A clear majority of Americans still suspect there was a conspiracy behind President John F. Kennedy‘s assassination, but the percentage who believe accused shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone is at its highest level since the mid-1960s, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. According to the AP-GfK survey, conducted [...]
JFK Assassination Suspects – Marina Oswald Marina Oswald New Historical Thriller Saving Jackie K contains many scenes with accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. But the novel also takes a look at his young bride, a woman whom he married in Russia and brought to the United States. Marina Prusakova was born in Molotovsk, Russia in [...]
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Mrs. Ruth Hyde Paine Suspect JFK Assassination Suspects – Ruth Paine In 1963, Mrs. Ruth Paine was living in Irving, Texas in a tiny white ranch house dwarfed by a sprawling live oak tree on the front lawn. The mini-kitchen inside contained not only a stove and refrigerator, but also a washing machine and ironing [...]
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JFK Assassination Suspects – J.D. Tippit Dallas Police Officer Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit Born in Clarksville, Texas in 1924, Police Officer J.D. Tippit was a devoted family man, a husband, and a father of three. At the age of twenty, as World War II battled on, Tippit enlisted in the army and earned a [...]
JFK Assassination Suspects – Lee Harvey Oswald JFK Assassination Suspects – Lee Harvey Oswald On October 18, 1939, a boy who would become infamous was born in New Orleans to a recent widow. Lee Harvey Oswald’s father had died two months before his birth, forsaking him to a virtually unsupervised childhood as the youngest of [...]
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Jack Ruby New novel Saving Jackie K discusses the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of murdering JFK, but didn’t live to stand trial. Jack Ruby gunned him down two days after his arrest. Who was Ruby? Was he involved in a conspiracy? Why did he kill Oswald? Born in [...]
JFK Assassination Suspects – Richard M Nixon JFK Assassination Suspect Richard Milhous Nixon Born in 1916 in Yorba Linda, California, Richard Nixon grew up in a poor Quaker family, the second youngest of five boys. He survived the hardship of his youth to earn acceptance at prestigious Ivy League, Harvard—where JFK ultimately was schooled. But [...]
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JFK Assassination Suspects – LBJ Lyndon Baines Johnson Suspect A native Texan born in 1908, Lyndon Johnson grew up in a small farmhouse in Stonewall. LBJ is said to have proposed to his wife on their first date. But Claudia Alta Taylor—nicknamed Lady Bird—stalled him for ten weeks until marrying him in November 1934. The [...]
Fidel Castro JFK Assassination Suspects – Fidel Castro During the 1950s, the Caribbean island nation of Cuba was run by US-backed military dictator and president, Fulgencio Batista. In 1959, rebel leader Fidel Castro banded together with his brother Raul Castro and friend Che Guevera to stage a revolution. Castro successfully overthrew Batista, and began his [...]
Cuban Missile Crisis: The Brink of War In Saving Jackie K, JFK’s Vice President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, laments the Commander-in-Chief’s missteps regarding the communist island nation of Cuba. But no one can debate Kennedy’s success in thwarting the volatile Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. On October 14, 1962, a US Air Force U-2 plane flying [...]
