There were no three shots fired in a lightning-quick 5.6 seconds by the lone Lee Harvey Oswald with a cheap-o, Italian-made bolt-action rifle with smart bullet accuracy from his inconvenient perch on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository.
That he was even on the sixth floor at 12:30 that afternoon has never been proven.
Nor did any proof exist that Oswald was in fact the person who had ordered the weapon found on the sixth floor from a mail order house.
The Depository building was not put under lockdown in a timely fashion following the shooting.
In violation of Texas law, the president's body was whisked away from Parkland Hospital to Washington, D.C. before the Dallas coroner could perform a proper autopsy; the "autopsy," as performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, was overseen by numerous high-ranking military officers, a plethora of suited individuals also in attendance.
The military doctors, not specialists at post mortem medical examination, found themselves tossed into the ring greatly outnumbered and seriously outranked. They were precisely instructed how to conduct the autopsy.
Nothing that took place in the room even came close to resembling normal procedure.
The ranking doctor, who thought he was in charge of the procedure, was not allowed to make written notes as prescribed by law; he was forced to do so secretly at a later time from memory, thus rendering them incomplete and somewhat inaccurate.
Only four photos of JFK's body on the table survive, with one verifying the written notation of a bullet wound near his right shoulder blade - not in the back of his neck as the Warren Commission officially determined for posterity.
The Dallas Police Department, excessively corrupt in 1963, only sort of investigated the assassination. During the nearly 48 hours Oswald was in DPD custody no notes or tape recordings were made of any conversations or questioning interviews. The FBI was just as remiss, or hid whatever it had.
As soon as Jack Ruby murdered Oswald - the first murder on live national television, Sunday, Nov. 24 - the DPD's responsibility shifted to the latter killing.
Oswald had also been accused of the murder of DPD Officer J.D. Tippet. There were neither corroborating witnesses testifying to nor forensics evidence put forth that placed Oswald at the scene or the gun his hand.
Tippet was an honest cop who had enemies on the force, and it's long been assumed that he was set up.
Thus, the Kennedy assassination, although a murder that occurred in Dallas jurisdiction, illegally became a full-fledged Federal investigation.
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