The Assassination of President Kennedy: An Investigation

It’s one of those milestone dates that if you were alive and aware of events, you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard that JFK had been killed. 

John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza. The common belief is that the fatal shots came from the Texas School Book Depository. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US marine who expressed pro Soviet views, was arrested as the primary suspect and as a stunned nation watched television; he was murdered two days later by Jack Ruby, a Dallas based night club owner. 

 The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, but a later congressional investigation suggested a probable conspiracy. Questions about additional shooters and locations such as the “grassy knoll” have kept public debate and conspiracy theories alive for decades. 

Oak Dowling, JD, is a retired attorney with 43 years of practice. He’s a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison Law School and a native of Chicago. He was a part-time Instructor of Law at College of Marin and has been an Instructor in the OLLI program at Dominican University for 13 years.  In his law classes, he uses courtroom drama to demonstrate legal principles.  

Oak has lived in Marin County for 50 years and was happily married for 61 years.  He has been a member of the Marin County Financial Abuse Specialist Team (“FAST”) and was selected as Outstanding Marin County Volunteer of the Year for 2012-2013. As an avocation, he has performed in theatre in Marin and San Francisco for 15 years. 

Join Oak’s talk on the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday, 8/16 at 1:00 pm.