John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerning relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. Nothing has generated as many conspiracy theories and rumors of cover-up as the assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, JFK, in November 1963. As Kennedy's motorcade made its way past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, shots rang out and the President was struck in the head. Despite being rushed straight to the hospital, JFK was pronounced dead just a few hours later. Kennedy's alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested just hours later, only to be shot dead himself two days later by Jack Ruby. In large part as a result of this successful effort to silence Oswald, conspiracy theories have swirled around the events surrounding JFK's assassination ever since. The official investigation into the shooting, the Warren Commission, concluded that Oswald was a lone assassin, but that did little to silence the speculation; in 2004, a poll found that 66% of Americans think that there was a conspiracy to kill the President. This book examines the accepted facts of the case, as well as some of the conspiracy theories that have been put forward to explain events.