The Warren Commission’s report established that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F Kennedy in November of 1963.
Since then, many conspiracy theorists have postulated the existence of other would be assassins. The assassins were placed in every nook and cranny of Dealey Plaza, the favorite being the infamous grassy knoll, but virtually every other window with a view of Kennedy’s car has been suspected.
I’ve even read of assassins popping up out of manholes.
In addition to Oswald the list of would be assassins expanded to cover such shadowy figures as David Ferrie and Clay Shaw. Shortly after the assassination police arrested “three tramps.” One of the three tramps has been alleged to be Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson. E Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis associated with both the Bay of Pigs fiasco and Watergate, are also a presumed tramps.
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| The Three Tramps |
But that doesn’t even begin to describe the number of people, famous and infamous, implicated in the killing.
Alan Moore implies that the Comedian, a putative superhero, committed the assassination.
The Watchmen movie makes this idea explicitly, placing the Comedian behind the grassy knoll. We know that the crew of the Red Dwarf, in the episode “Tikka To Ride” time traveled to that day in 1963, accidentally killed Oswald. The convince an alternate JFK to assassinate his earlier self. The Doctor, in the episode “Rose” is seen in a photograph, a member of the crowd, witnessing the event. The infamous “cigarette smoking man” from The X-Files is shown firing the killshot from a sewer drain.
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| the Comedian |
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| the Doctor |
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| Sam Beckett |
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| Cigarette Smoking Man |
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| Joe DiMaggio |
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| Spock |
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| Mr. Peabody |
Other time travelers messing with the assassination include Dr. Sam Beckett, who leaped quantumly into the body of Oswald before the event, preventing the death of Jacqueline. The comic book series 100 Bullets implicates baseball superstar Joe DiMaggio in the killing.
But perhaps the weirdest time traveler involved tin the assassination was Spock, of the Starship
Enterprise. In a script rejected by Paramount,
Star Trek‘s Gene Roddenberry wrote a time travel adventure. According to
Trekdom:
“The climactic moments of the film,” according to William Shatner, “would find Spock standing on a grassy knoll in Dallas, firing that infamous `phantom shot’… thereby guaranteeing a brighter future for all of mankind.”
It turns out that many of the most famous time travelers in all of history were present at the JFK assassination, and why not? Let’s face it, everyone is curious about what actually went down there, and Dallas, in November 1963 would be crawling with time travelers.
I would suggest that anyone with a reliable, functioning time machine would be there.
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