JFK Assassination

"Backyard photo" of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, holding two Marxist newspapers, The Militant and The Worker, and a Carcano rifle, with markings matching those on the rifle found in the Book Depository after the assassination.

Lee Harvey Oswald

After conducting some 25,000 interviews and running down tens of thousands of investigative leads, the FBI found that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

The Warren Commission, which spent nearly a year carefully studying the assassination, agreed. 

Visit the National Archives website to view The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.