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Who believes the JFK cover-up?
The claim: The JFK assassination was a conspiracy involving more than Oswald. Counts as saying it's true: Says or endorses that others were involved beyond Oswald acting alone. Counts as saying it's false: Says Oswald acted alone.
Says it's true (5)
- Candace Owens: “Alan dallis by the way also ran was in charge of the Warren Commission so he was behind uh telling the public a ridiculous story about Lee Oswald um Lee Harvey Oswald he did it it's over that's it total sham of us committee and a sham of a report” (2025-03-20, source)
- Joe Rogan: “I think there was a lot of people. I think here's a mistake that people make. They say Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't involved and he was a pathy.” (2025-12-18, source)
- Alex Jones: “Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA. CIA-financed operatives had direct contact with JFK’s assassin before the killing, according to documents declassified yesterday.” (2025-07-05, source)
- Ian Carroll: “They didn’t pay Oswald to be the jfk patsy.” (2026-07-21, source)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The CIA's murder of my uncle was a successful coup d'état from which our democracy has never recovered.” (2022-12-17, source)
Hints it's true (10)
- Jimmy Dore: “john f kennedy said he wanted to smash the CIA into a thousand pieces now he's dead oh my god it's conspiracy” (2017-11-12, source)
- Donald Trump: “I do. And I've always held that, of course he was, was he helped?” (2025-03-22, source)
- Theo Von: “and the CIA killed his whole family and it's just like a fun and it's like hilarity ensues you know what I mean” (2024-02-03, source)
- Dan Bongino: “conspiracy theorists that actually came out of uh it's a document 10 uh 35-960 which was it was the cia document to avert any investigation to the warren commission they would just label everybody a conspiracy theorist” (2022-02-17, source)
- Russell Brand: “i'll just bring this to your attention with something as apparently innocuous as the assassination of jfk by innocuous i mean so much time has passed since then it's been punted another half century into the future presumably because the information in that report would unsettle…” (2021-12-13, source)
- Donald Trump Jr.: “Exactly” (2024-12-06, source)
- Michael Flynn: “Roger makes the strong case that LBJ had the motive for the former (JFK)” (2023-11-19, source)
- Nick Fuentes: “From the JFK Files: “The CIA has no objection to declassification and/or release of information in this document except these words: [the Israeli Intelligence Service]”” (2025-03-19, source)
- Tucker Carlson: “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American President?” (2022-12-15, source)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene
Unclear (9)
- Piers Morgan: “well the official narrative surrounding the assassinations of JFK RFK and Dr Martin Luther King namely that all three were killed by lone gunman have long been questioned by those who suspect wider involvement” (2025-01-28, source)
- Mehdi Hasan: “Hi Senator, thanks for the quote-tweet, but why are you so full of bile and hate against Muslim-Americans who aren’t terrorists and have never harmed you, while sycophantic to the man in the Oval Office who called your wife ugly and said your dad killed JFK?” (2026-08-06, source)
- Anderson Cooper: “sixty-one percent, I should say, of Americans in a recent Gallup poll said they don't believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.” (2013-11-22, source)
- Jack Posobiec: “did do you believe Lee Harvey Oswald knew there were going to be other shooters?” (2023-09-24, source)
- Andrew Tate: “these are Declassified CIA documents these are things that they actually did and that nobody pays attention to because it happened 60 years ago” (2023-11-15, source)
- Elon Musk: “I don't know what's going on there. It can't be anything that's gotten to me yet. So, if nothing's gotten to me yet, it can't be anything.” (2025-03-19, source)
- Hillary Clinton: “You all deserve to know what your government has done and is doing,” (2008-01-29, source)
- Laura Loomer: “The thing I am concerned about is having something issued so that we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin” (2017-10-27, source)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: “by the way Chuck Elm Street was one of the streets that the Kennedy uh that JFK turned off of onto to into the dealy Plaza so interesting you picked that one I wonder if that was random” (2022-10-27, source)
Hints it's false (4)
- Mick West: “Here's a recreation of Oswald's view done soon after the events. [Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpAjEPOxjmc] There's a huge amount of information like this available. With most people down a rabbit hole, the main part of the challenge is figuring out what they are miss…” (2018-12-12, source)
- Rachel Maddow: “The man holding the rifle is in this photo is Lee Harvey Oswald who went on to kill John F. Kennedy with that gun in 1963.” (2013-03-12, source)
- Ben Shapiro: “…unbelievably stupid. And so the idea that you could get thousands of human beings to be complicit in a complex scheme to deceive all of us that we landed on the moon or that the earth is actually flat or that JFK was actually shot by some strange malange of foreign parties.” (2026-06-25, source)
- John Oliver: “take the jfk assassination that event shook the world and the very idea that a lone gunman could cause such chaos was inherently unsatisfying so people perhaps understandably reached for a much bigger answer” (2020-07-19, source)
Says it's false (1)
- Michael Shermer: “So my conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating JFK is based purely on evidence. If there was a conspiracy to assassinate the 35th President of the United States this wasn’t it.” (2023-11-22, source)
No stance found (11)
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