JFK Assassination: National Archives Reveal Another Side to the Story

Friday marks 50 years since the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and the days leading up to this anniversary may feel a bit like diving headfirst into an icy ocean of Camelot myth. Truth, analysis and conjecture will each get their due, but it will all be filtered through a media that has been telling the same unhappy tale for 50 years.

But what if you could chart your own course through history?

The National Archives' digital archive of Kennedy Assassination artifacts includes amazing finds like Lee Harvey Oswald’s rifle and handwritten and typed transcripts from interviews conducted over the days, weeks, months and years following the assassination Read more...