The Evil Origins of 60 Years of JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories

Sixty years ago today, a Communist murdered the president of the United States. Sixty years ago later today, other Communists started to think about how they could fool the people of the United States that someone other than a Communist murdered the president of the United States.

By Dec. 1, just nine days after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the Communist Party of Illinois had already released “Who Really Killed Pres. Kennedy?” It claimed that “only the Ultra-Right and the Southern Racists” benefitted from the assassination. “Dallas is a stronghold of the Ultra-Right” and “the John Birch Society,” the Communists reasoned.