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THE CAST OF CHARACTERS

Assembled from various sources both from the net and the press

THE ASSASSINS

  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Jack Ruby

THE ALLEGED CONSPIRATORS

  • The Grassy Knoll man (almost all of the conspiracy theories)
  • Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Ex-vice president Richard Nixon
  • Ex-CIA Director Allen Dulles
  • Ex-CIA Deputy Director Charles Cabell
  • CIA Man Gordon Gray
  • CIA Man George H.W. Bush
  • Various members of organized crime
  • Cuban Mafia Godfather Santos Trafficante
  • Jack Ruby (almost all of the conspiracy theories)
  • Union leader and Mobster Jimmy Hoffa
  • Mafia Godfather Sam Giancana
  • Big-Time Mobster Carlos Marcello
  • FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
  • Cuban Leader Fidel Castro
  • Lee Harvey Oswald (almost all of the conspiracy theories)
  • Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
  • Various KGB agents
  • KGB agent extraordinare Oleg Maximovich Nechiporenko
  • KGB agent and a Russian baron George de Mohrenschildt
  • KGB "wet affairs" agent Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov
  • Assorted Cuban exiles
  • anti-Castro activist Carlos Bringuier
  • Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell
  • Numerous Secret Service agents
  • Secret Service Agent Winston Lawson
  • Secret Service Agent Forrest Sorrells
  • Secret Service Agent William Greer
  • Secret Service Agent George Hickey
  • Senator Prescott Bush
  • Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
  • Congressman Gerald Ford
  • W.C. lawyer Arlen Specter
  • Diem family
  • Madame Nhu Diem
  • Former FBI agent Guy Banister
  • The Dal-Tex Man
  • FBI Agent James Hosty
  • Suspected CIA informant Clay Shaw
  • Assorted corrupt industrialists
  • Various right-wing generals and politicians
  • Illinois cop killer James "jimmy" E. Files who claims he was the grassy knoll shooter
  • The Lee Harvey Oswald Impersonator
  • The Lee Harvey Oswald Double

THE INVESTIGATORS

  • New Orleans D.A Jim Garrison
  • Warren Commission lawyers, notably Arlen Specter
  • Lee Rankin, Warren Commission’s general counsel
  • Norman Redlich, his deputy
  • House Select Committee on Assassination
  • Richard Billings, editorial director for the HSCA
  • HSCA investigator Gaeton Fonzi

THE CAST AT DEALEY PLAZA

  • President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the target
  • Texas Governor John Connally
  • First Lady Jackie Kennedy, is widely quoted in assassination books as a witness who claimed to have seen a wound on the back of Kennedy's head.
  • First Lady of Texas Nellie Connally
  • Abraham Zapruder, the man who took the most famous piece of amateur motion picture film in history.
  • James Tague, the Unintended Victim in Dealey Plaza
  • Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
  • An Entourage of secret service agents, politicians and bureaucrats both from Washington D.C. and Texas
  • The Umbrella Man Louis Witt
  • The "Black Dog Man"
  • The "Badgeman"
  • The Grassy Knoll Shooter?
  • the "Babushka Lady"
  • The Three Tramps, where they just the "tramps" or conspiracy operatives in disguise?
  • The "Secret Service man" on the Grassy Knoll?
  • The "Dal-Tex" man
  • Secret Service Agent Rufus W. Youngblood was in Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination, protecting Vice President Johnson.
  • Officer Joe Marshall Smith, who was on the Grassy Knoll behind the Stockade Fence after the shooting, was convinced that he encountered a Secret Service agent.
  • Roger Craig, he saw Oswald run from the School Book Depository and get in a Rambler on Elm Street.
  • Seymour Weitzman, the officer who first saw Oswald's rifle behind some boxes on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, said that "in a glance" the gun looked like a Mauser.
  • Marilyn Sitzman, was superbly positioned to see what was going on. Standing on the same pedestal with Abraham Zapruder (and helping steady him), she was only a few yards from the supposed position of the Grassy Knoll shooter. She saw Kennedy hit in the head, and she turned to look in the direction of the Stockade Fence after the head shot.
  • Julia Ann Mercer, told the story of seeing Jack Ruby at the wheel of a pickup truck near the Triple Underpass just a couple of hours before the assassination. She claimed another man took a gun case from the back of the pickup and walked up a grassy incline toward the Grassy Knoll.
  • Tom Tilson, tells of seeing a man scrambling down the bank behind the Grassy Knoll on the west side of the Triple Underpass immediately following the assassination, putting an object in a car, and driving off.
  • Phil Willis, claims that the back of Kennedy's head was blown out.
  • Ed Hoffman, is a deaf mute who was on the Stemmons Freeway onramp at the time of the shooting. He claims to have seen two men behind the Stockade Fence, one firing a shot at Kennedy and another disassembling the gun.
  • Jean Hill, the woman in the red raincoat, who has always had interesting stories to tell, from seeing a little dog in the limo between Jack and Jackie Kennedy, to her current claim to have seen a Grassy Knoll shooter in the act of shooting.
  • Bill and Gayle Newman
  • Pierce Allman
  • Bobby Hargis
  • Rosemary Willis Roach
  • James Leavelle
  • Waggoner Carr
  • Red Duke

THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS and AUTHORS

  • Mark Lane (Plausible Denial, Rush to Judgment)
  • John Newman (Oswald and the CIA)
  • Anthony Summers (Conspiracy)
  • John H. Davis (The Kennedy Contract),
  • Richard Billings ( E.D. for HSCA, author of The Plot to Kill the President)
  • David Scheim (Contract on America)
  • Veteran journalist Jack Anderson
  • David Lifton (The Texas Connection, Best Evidence)
  • Harrison Edward Livingstone (Killing Kennedy)
  • Playwright Barbara Garson (MacBird!)
  • Michael Eddowes (Khrushchev Killed Kennedy)
  • Mark North (Act of Treason)
  • Michael Kurtz (Crime of the Century)
  • Josiah Thompson (Seconds in Dallas)
  • George O'Toole (The Assassination Tapes)
  • Bernard Fensterwald (Coincidence or Conspiracy?)
  • Sylvia Meagher (Accessories After the Fact)
  • CBS newsman Peter Noyes
  • Bonar Menninger (Mortal Error)
  • Filmmaker Oliver Stone (JKF)
  • New Orleans D.A Jim Garrison
  • Harold Weisberg (Whitewash series)
  • Richard Popkin (The Second Oswald)
  • Thomas Buchanan (Who Killed Kennedy?)
  • Robert G. (Bob) Vernon (an advocate for James E. Files story, a peculiar person)

THE RIGHT-WING SCUMBAG RAT FROM HELL AWARD

  • GERALD "posey" POSNER, author of "JFK, Case Closed!", friend of Luciane Goldberg of Lewinsky fame, a man praised by Arlen Specter .

 

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