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36            Timeline of the Day JFK Was Assassinated





                This timeline shows

              exactly how the day of

                JFK's assassination

                         unfolded



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          7:50 p.m. CT : Oswald in interrogated for the
          third time. He is then taken for his third lineup
          where is he identified by witness J.D. Davies as
          the man people saw unloading a pistol as he
          came across their yard immediately following
          the Tippit shooting. Immediately following the
          lineup, Oswald's finger and palm prints are
          taken on an inkless pad.

          9 p.m. CT : Witness Buell Frazier has his sister
          come to the homicide and robbery office. They
          both say they saw Oswald carrying a package    many of the most important documents, and shook me up. I guess we’re not as naive now as
          with him to the Texas School Book Depository.  eyewitnesses, related to Oswald’s plot to kill we were in the ‘60s.” (Houston Chronicle,
          Oswald is later arrested and brought back in for  Kennedy will never be made public.  These December 20, 1991)
          questioning.                                   include information about Oswald’s known
                                                         connections with Cuban exiles in Dallas, who    Tommy Lee Jones: “I started having doubts as
          11 p.m. ET : After it began at 8:15 p.m. under  may have known of his assassination plans and soon as I became aware of the findings of the
          the charge of Commander J.J. Humes,            sent word back to Havana, as well as interviews Warren Commission …. It’s preposterous.”
          Kennedy's autopsy is concluded. Dr. Humes      with a key eyewitness at the Cuban consulate, (Calgary Herald, December 24, 1991)
          later states that the autopsy results were that  where Oswald reportedly bragged openly about
          Kennedy was killed by two shots from the rear.  his plans to kill the U.S. president.          Robert Kennedy: “[Kennedy] lived the rest of
                                                                 If the full trove of government records his life suspecting the Mafia or the Cubans were
          Saturday, November 23, 1963, 1:35 a.m. CT :    related to JFK’s assassination were ever to be behind his brother’s death.”
          After Captain Fritz signs the complaint charging  made public, Baer has an idea of what they
          Oswald with the murder of Kennedy at 11:26     would show. “I think what happened, without Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The evidence at this
          p.m. C.T., Judge David Johnson rules that      seeing all the documents, is that the point I think is very, very convincing that it was
          Oswald "voluntarily and with malice of         assassination could have been stopped,” Baer not a lone gunman.”
          forethought killed John F. Kennedy by shooting  says. “The Secret Service should have been
          him with a gun."                               informed, Oswald should have been confronted Richard Schweiker (former senator): “Now I
                 At 1:35 a.m. C.T., Oswald is officially  before Kennedy’s visit…It could have been don’t know who killed cock robin, but we don’t
          told he has been charged with Kennedy's        stopped.” He believes “once the government know what happened and we do know that
          murder.                                        understood this [was preventable], they closed Oswald      had    intelligence   connections.
                                                         down the investigation.”                        Everywhere you look with him, there are
          3:56 a.m. ET :  Kennedy's body is brought to           “It’s not what the conspiracy theorists fingerprints of intelligence.”
          the White House, where he will lay in repose   think—the guy with the black umbrella, the
          until Sunday. On Monday, November 25, son      shooter on the grassy knoll,” Baer says. “The Richard Belzer:  “In other words, if the
          John Jr.'s third birthday, Kennedy will be laid to  crime is the cover-up.”                    Zapruder film had been aired at the time of the
          rest at Arlington National Cemetery. []                                                        assassination, a mourning nation would have
                                                               Famous People Who                         had the opportunity to judge the evidence, and
          An Ex-CIA Officer Weighs                                Believe in a JFK                       several months later, the stunning and
                                                                                                         unambiguous failure of the Warren Commission
                in on the JFK Files                                                                      to explain he murder.”
                                                                       Conspiracy

                                                                                                         Lyndon Baines Johnson: “I never believed that
          Former CIA officer and author Robert Baer, who
                                                         Chipper Jones: “What a crock of crap! Oswald Oswald acted alone, although I can accept that
          led the investigation in History’s “JFK
                                                         killed Kennedy? Seriously? Sorry, but I’m       he pulled the trigger.”
          Declassified:  Tracking Oswald” program,
                                                         watching JFK. It’s almost laughable what they
          believes the biggest revelation to come out of
                                                         want us to believe.”                            Bruce Willis  :  ”They still haven’t caught the
          the newest file release is that the White House
                                                                                                         guy that killed Kennedy. I’ll get killed for saying
          and intelligence agencies are continuing to
                                                         Marina Oswald Porter (Lee Harvey Oswald’s this, but I’m pretty sure those guys are still in
          conceal all that was known about Lee Harvey
                                                         widow): “I am now convinced that he was an power, in some form. The entire government of
          Oswald before the assassination, and how much
                                                         FBI informant and believe that he did not kill the United States was co-opted. One guy did it?
          information was withheld from the official
                                                         President Kennedy.”                             I don’t think so.” (Vanity Fair, June 2007)
          investigation into the events of November 22,
          1963.
                                                         Kevin Costner: “There were a lot of people John Kerry: “Regarding possible conspiracies,
                 “They’ve had 25 years to redact and
                                                         with no love lost for Kennedy — the CIA, the to this day I have serious doubts that Lee Harvey
          protect sources and methods,” Baer says. “What
                                                         mob. I believe there was a conspiracy …. We’ve Oswald acted alone. I certainly have doubts that
          they’re covering up…is the actual cover-up on
                                                         lived with the myth of the Warren Commission he was motivated to do that by himself. I’m not
          Oswald, and there was one. I have seen no
                                                         (which concluded Oswald was a lone assassin) sure if anybody else was involved. I don’t go
          evidence that there’s any sort of government
                                                         for a long time.”                               down that road, with respect to the grassy knoll
          conspiracy, but the cover-up—withholding from
                                                                                                         theory and all of that, but I have serious
          the    Warren     Commission,      destroying
                                                         Sissy Spacek: “For so long, I wanted to believe questions about whether they got to the bottom
          documentation—it’s just there. It’s undisputed.”
                                                         it was Oswald and not something bigger. I still of Lee Harvey Oswald.”  []
                 Baer hasn’t had a chance to review all
                                                         want to believe that. But Oliver [Stone]’s script
          the newly released documents, but he believes
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