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FILE 043 · VOL VII · They Lied to Your Parents
Congress Said Kennedy Was Probably a Conspiracy. Watch the Man With the Umbrella.
People will believe almost anything except that it was a coincidence.
Based on: The JFK Assassination and the Umbrella Man
Intake record
| Recovered from | Nursing home, Dallas, Texas; personal effects of a resident, and statements gathered by the Archive |
|---|---|
| Contents | One black umbrella, six statements, one congressional record excerpt |
| Finder | Nursing staff |
| Status | The statements contradict each other. The Archive has not resolved them. You may try. |
Recovered file
At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dealey Plaza in Dallas. In 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. [1] In 1979 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Kennedy was probably killed as a result of a conspiracy, relying heavily on an acoustic analysis of a police radio recording. In 1982 a National Academy of Sciences panel disputed that analysis. [2] In 2025 the government released tens of thousands of previously withheld pages. [3]
On a dry, sunny day, one man on the north side of Elm Street opened a black umbrella as the motorcade approached and pumped it up and down. In 1978, a Dallas warehouse manager named Louie Steven Witt testified before the House committee that he was that man. He said it was a heckle aimed at the President's father, Joseph Kennedy, who as ambassador had supported Neville Chamberlain, whose symbol was the umbrella. He said he wished he'd stayed home. [4]
The following statements concern a second man. He has never been identified.
Mr. Harold Beck was ninety-one. He couldn't sleep, so I sat with him at three in the morning. He said he needed to tell one person before he went.
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