As the Rolling Stones lyric goes, the answer to “who killed the Kennedys” was “after all…you and me”. In Don DeLillo’s novel Libra, John F Kennedy’s assassination emerged from a CIA plot. And in the Ultimate Marvel world, the US president’s killer was, perhaps least credibly of all, Captain America’s son Red Skull.
The assassinations of JFK in 1963 and his brother, Robert F “Bobby” Kennedy, in 1968 have held the American imagination in a vice-like grip ever since.
Conspiracy theories have raged for decades, sparking a plethora of books, films and, more recently, internet posts. For some, no explanation has seemed too improbable. Among many, there remains a reluctance to accept that the simple answers – those to which the bulk of evidence points to – are in fact the correct ones.
