In Brief:
On this date 47 years ago, U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. President Kennedy believed that his Republican opponent in 1964 would be Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. A loner with a checkered past, Oswald would claim to be "a patsy," a statement that would fuel speculation that Kennedy's killing could not have been the work of just one man. The commission reported that the bullets that had killed President Kennedy were fired by Oswald from a rifle pointed out a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. The commission also reported that it had found no evidence that either Oswald or Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator charged with Oswald's murder, was part of any conspiracy, foreign or domestic, to assassinate President Kennedy.
