- Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested later that day on suspicion of killing the president and Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald denied any responsibility for the murders.
- Jack Ruby
Jacob Rubenstein, who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was a Dallas businessman and nightclub owner. He was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, two days after Oswald's arrest for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He successfully appealed his conviction and sentence of death. As a date for his new trial was being set, he took ill and died.
- Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known as Oliver Stone, is a American film director, and screenwriter.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for designing his Great Society, …
- Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. He was one of President Kennedy's most trusted advisors and worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement is sometimes considered his greatest legacy.
- Jim Garrison
Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison (November 20, 1921 - October 21, 1992) - who changed his first name to simply Jim in the early '60s - was the Democratic District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973; he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the 38th President (1974–1977), and 40th Vice President (1973–1974) of the United States. Ford was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment. Upon succession to the presidency, Ford became the only person to hold that office without having been elected either President or Vice President.
- E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9 1918 - January 23 2007) was an American author and spy. He worked for the CIA and later the White House under President Richard Nixon. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers" - a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks". Information disclosures had proved an embarrassment to the Nixon administration when defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg sent a series of documents, …
- Clay Shaw
Clay Laverne Shaw (March 17, 1913 - August 14, 1974) was a successful businessman in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana. He is notable as the only person ever to be tried for conspiracy in relation to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Shaw was honorably discharged from the United States Army as a major in 1946. He served as a secretary to the General Staff and was decorated by three nations: The United States with the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star, …
- Abraham Zapruder
Abraham Zapruder was an American manufacturer of women's clothing who filmed U.S. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 motorcade traveling through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, and unexpectedly recorded the entire assassination of the President. The Zapruder film is famous for being the only film to have recorded the entire event.
- John Connally
John Bowden Connally, Jr. (February 27 1917 - June 15 1993) was a powerful American politician from the state of Texas. He was initially a member of the Democratic Party, but in 1973, at the height of the Watergate affair, he switched allegiance to the Republican Party. He was also noteworthy as a passenger in the car in which John F. Kennedy was shot to death. Although badly wounded himself, Connally made a full recovery from his injuries.
- Earl Warren
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 - July 9, 1974) was a California district attorney of Alameda County, the 20th Attorney General of California, the 30th Governor of California, and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (from 1953 to 1969). As Chief Justice, his term of office was marked by numerous rulings affecting, among other things, the legal status of racial segregation, civil rights, separation of church and state, and police arrest procedure in the United States.
- Mark Lane
Mark Lane (born February 24 1927 in New York City) is a U.S attorney and author of many books, including the bestseller, "Rush to Judgment". This book was one of two major books published in the immediate wake of the JFK assassination which questioned the conclusions of the Warren Commission.
- Jim Marrs
Jim Marrs (December 5, 1943) is a conspiracy theorist, news reporter, college professor, and author of books and articles on a wide range of assorted conspiracy theories. Marrs is an important figure in the JFK conspiracy press and his book "Crossfire" was a source for Oliver Stone's film "JFK". He has also written books asserting the existence of government conspiracies regarding aliens, 9/11, telepathy and secret societies.
- J. D. Tippit
J. D. Tippit was a police officer with the Dallas, Texas Police Department who, according to several witnesses, the Warren Commission, and the conclusions of other government investigations, was slain by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- Gerald Posner
Gerald Posner is an investigative journalist and author of several books, including "Case Closed" (1993) which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and "Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr."
- David Ferrie
David William Ferrie (March 28, 1918 - February 22, 1967) was a private investigator and pilot who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Ferrie was born in Cleveland, Ohio. A Roman Catholic, Ferrie attended St. Ignatius High School , John Carroll University, St. Mary Seminary, where he studied for the priesthood, and Baldwin-Wallace College. He next spent three years at the St.
- Arlen Specter
Arlen J. Specter (born February 12 1930) is a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Republican Party.
- Ruth Paine
Ruth Hyde Paine (born September 3, 1932) was a friend of Marina Oswald who was living with her at the time of the JFK assassination. The Warren Commission contended that Lee Harvey Oswald stored his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle in her garage, unbeknownst to her and her husband, Michael Paine.
- Frank Sturgis
Frank Anthony Sturgis, born Frank Angelo Fiorini, was one of the Watergate burglars. He served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary army as a soldier of fortune, and later trained Cuban exiles for the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Frank Fiorini Sturgis' family moved to Philadelphia when he was a child. In 1942, Sturgis joined the U.S. Marine Corps and, during the Second World War, served in the Pacific.
- Carlos Marcello
Carlos Marcello (Calogero Minacore ) was born in Tunis, North Africa, on 6th February, 1910. Marcello emigrated to the United States and in 1929 was arrested for bank robbery by the police in New Orleans . These charges were later dropped but the following year he was convicted of assault and robbery and was sentenced to the State penitentiary for 9 years (served 5 years). In 1938 Marcello was arrested and charged with the sale of more than 23 pounds of narcotics.
- Sam Giancana
Sam "Momo" Giancana ((born Salvatore Guingano) June 15, 1908 - June 19, 1975) was a famous and powerful mafioso and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957-66. Among his nicknames included "Mo", "Mooney" and "Sam the Cigar"
- Henry Wade
Henry Menasco Wade (November 11, 1914-March 1, 2001), was a Texas lawyer who participated in two of the most notable U.S. court cases of the 20th century, the prosecution of Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion, "Roe v. Wade". Wade, one of eleven children, was born in Rockwall County, Texas, outside Dallas. A good student, Wade, along with five of his seven brothers, entered the legal profession.
- Cyril Wecht
Dr. Cyril Harrison Wecht (born March 20, 1931 in Dunkard Township, Pennsylvania) is a nationally renowned, controversial American forensic pathologist. He has served as a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, but is perhaps best known for his outspoken criticism of the Warren Commission's findings concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He has served as the president of both the American Academy of Forensic Science and the American College of Legal Medicine, …
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994) was the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963 and was known as Jacqueline Kennedy or Jackie Kennedy. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. From 1968 until his death in 1975, she was married to Aristotle Onassis and was known as Jacqueline Onassis, Jackie Onassis, …
- G. Robert Blakey
G. Robert Blakey is currently a law professor at Notre Dame and is a recognized expert on organized crime, an authority on the JFK assassination, and is also the nation’s foremost authority on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
- Mary Ferrell
Mary Elizabeth McHughes Ferrell was an American historian and independent researcher who created a large database on the John F. Kennedy assassination.
- John J. McCloy
John Jay McCloy (March 31, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 11, 1989, Stamford, Connecticut) was a lawyer and banker who later became a prominent United States presidential advisor. He was known for his opposition to the World War II atomic bombing of Japan, and his refusal to endorse compensation to the 110,000 Japanese-Americans who were held in internment camps within the USA.
- Jesse Curry
Jesse Edward Curry (October 3, 1913 - June 22, 1980) was chief of the Dallas police at the time John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through a motorcade in downtown Dallas. As he was to recount in his testimony with the Warren Commission and with the LBJ Presidential Library, he provided security for the new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, at Parkland Memorial Hospital where Kennedy died, and aboard "Air Force One" when he was sworn in as president.
- Guy Banister
William Guy Banister (March 7, 1900-June 6, 1964) was a private investigator alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Banister was born in Monroe, Louisiana. After studying at the Louisiana State University, he joined the Monroe Police Department. In 1934, Banister joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was present at the death of John Dillinger.
- George de Mohrenschildt
George de Mohrenschildt (April 17 (Gregorian calendar), 1911 – March 29, 1977) was a petroleum geologist who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the months preceding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
- William Manchester
William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 - June 1, 2004) was an American historian and biographer, notable as the bestselling author of 18 books that have been translated into 20 languages.
- Nellie Connally
Idanell Brill "Nellie" Connally was the First Lady of Texas from 1963 to 1969.
- Hale Boggs
Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., was an American Democratic politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana. He was the House Majority Leader. In 1972, while he was still Majority Leader, the twin engine airplane in which Boggs was traveling over a remote section of Alaska disappeared. The plane presumably crashed and was never found. Congressman Nick Begich was also presumed killed in the same accident.
- L. Fletcher Prouty
Leroy Fletcher Prouty (January 24, 1917 - June 5, 2001) was a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, author, banker, and critic of US foreign policy, especially as regarded the activities of the CIA. His books include "The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World" and "JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy". He had a 23-year military career rising to the rank of Colonel, …
- John Paisley
John Arthur Paisley (d. September 24 1978) was an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency and has been linked in later years to both the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal. In 1971 while he was Direcor of the CIA's Office of Security he became the CIA liaison to the White House Special Investigations Unit, commonly known as the "Plumbers". Paisley's continued interaction with the Plumbers is supported by White House memoranda.
- Jack Anderson
Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 - December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.
- Edwin Walker
Major General Edwin Anderson Walker (November 10, 1909 - October 31, 1993) was a member of the U.S. Army known for his right wing political views and for being a target of Lee Harvey Oswald.
- Clint Hill
Clinton J. Hill (born 1932) was a United States Secret Service agent who was in the presidential motorcade during the John F. Kennedy assassination. After Kennedy was shot, Hill ran from the car immediately behind the presidential limousine and leapt onto the back of it, holding on while the car raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital. Hill joined the Denver Office in 1958. After John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States, …
- Cord Meyer
Cord Meyer, Jr. was an American CIA official.