Who shot JFK? Find out!

Friday, the 22^nd of November, marks the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination.

And, in spite of numerous investigations pinning the sole blame on Lee Harvey Oswald, many Americans believe that a deeper conspiracy killed Kennedy.

Join the History Department at noon Friday in AC2755 for a special Historians’ Rountable that looks at both the assassination and its aftermath.

“I’ve spent more than 35 years researching this case. For the first two decades I believed it was a conspiracy, but now I think Oswald did it,” said Pat Casey, MHCC history instructor.

“I’ll try to describe what changed my thinking, as well as the major conspiracy theories,” he said. Audience questions will be encouraged after the short presentation, he said.

Casey has pondered JFK’s death for more than 35 years.

“I first visited Dallas for a football game when I was in college in 1977, and while there went to Dealey Plaza, the site of the assassination,” he said. “Although I could remember the assassination myself – I was in second grade at the time – I had not taken a tremendous interest in the controversies that emerged” by the mid-1960s, he said.

“Seeing the actual site though got me to wondering – the official government inquiry, the Warren Commission, said that Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president by firing three shots from the Texas School Book Depository,” Casey said.

“For whatever reason, though, that didn’t seem plausible, so I began looking at the massive number of books about the assassination.

“A number of books came out in 1966 and 1967, such as “Rush to Judgment” by Mark Lane, “Inquest” by Edward Jay Epstein and “Accessories After the Fact” by Sylvia Meagher, all of which I read,” Casey said.

“The one though that made the most sense was “Six Seconds in Dallas” by Josiah Thomson, a college philosophy professor.”

That puts Casey distinctly in the minority: Surveys show 75 percent of Americans don’t believe the Warren Report findings he will walk the audience through.

The Historians’ Roundtable is free and open to students, MHCC employees and the community. All are welcome to participate and perhaps decide what they believe, and why.