Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Lone Gunman?

American History Hit

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Why not have a go at understanding one of the most famous conspiracies of the 20th Century?

We will probably never get an answer for what really happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963. But in this episode, we're questioning why? What is the evidence that prevents us from believing the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman.

To explore this, Don is joined by Jefferson Morley. Jefferson is a former Washington Post writer and the journalist responsible for the JFK Facts substack, where he investigates the evidence and any new evidence as it comes to light.

Edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Freddy Chick.

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0:00.0	We've been working on a puzzle. Hours of precious, painstaking work, lining up the straight edges, finding the corners,
0:12.0	finding the colors. And there's all those impossible sky pieces, and the ground, well, at least the grass.
0:19.0	And the wall, the curbs. It's a street running through a
0:23.9	city plaza, and oh, here's the car. Yeah, the limousine. Then another, it looks like a motorcade.
0:33.2	You know the feeling. That satisfying click when a piece you've been looking for snaps in, fitting together.
0:40.3	Only, if you're honest, that one doesn't fit so neatly.
0:44.3	Try another angle, maybe, nah.
0:47.3	And the one on the wall is forced too.
0:50.3	Then all those missing pieces, will this ever be done?
0:56.1	Try as we might to get the full picture, the truth of the thing. It's never as easy as that.
1:15.0	Hi everybody, I'm Don Wildman, and you're listening to American History Hit.
1:18.4	It is one of the perennial mysteries of the 20th century.
1:23.3	Maybe perpetual is the better word, considering it remains mysterious even now in the 21st.
1:46.9	Did Lee Harvey Oswald, beleaguered husband, misfit ex-marine, self-styled revolutionary, really act alone in Dallas on November 22, 1962, when he fired his rifle at President John F. Kennedy? Or was he part of a larger plot, and therefore a pawn, a patsy, caught up in forces beyond his control. Was Oswald the lone gunman who assassinated the president, or did he take the fall in a deeper, even darker
1:51.8	conspiracy? These are questions that endure, fueled, of course, by what happened two days later
1:57.6	when Oswald himself was shot by Jack Ruby as he was moved out of the Dallas City Jail.
2:03.0	In the days that followed, the Warren Commission was formed to investigate and then report their findings in hopes that those questions and more would be settled once and for all, and the nation could move on.
2:14.1	Well, that report was delivered, and move on we did. But more than 60 years later,
2:18.9	it was without the desired resolution. We remain today a country full of doubt and suspicions
2:25.1	about the Kennedy assassination, not to mention others. Jefferson Morley is a journalist,
2:29.6	previously associated with the Washington Post, now digging into events surrounding the Kennedy
2:34.8	assassination, and he does so on his JFK Facts, Substack and Podcasts, going on now three years.
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