Category: Dealey Plaza

• The Grassy Knoll Shooter

  One of the central theories of the JFK assassination, holding that Lee Harvey Oswald did not fire the fatal shot alone and may have served as a patsy while a second assassin fired from the grassy knoll area behind the picket fence in Dealey Plaza. The theory relies on eyewitness statements, shot-direction impressions, acoustic arguments, and the geometry of the head shot as seen in films and reconstructions.

• The Umbrella Man

  A Dealey Plaza theory claiming that a man seen opening a black umbrella on a sunny day near the motorcade was not an eccentric bystander but an operational participant in the assassination of President Kennedy. Depending on the version, he either signaled the shooters, marked the kill zone, or carried a disguised weapon such as a poison-dart device designed to weaken or immobilize the president before the rifle shots.