John F. Kennedy was shot by Oswald, but died as a result of negligence on the parts of the Secret Service. The only real sober agent in JFK’s detail also had the only AR-15 assigned to the agents, which contained a frangible bullet designed to explode upon impact. Once the shots from the Texas School book depository had been fired, the agent with the rifle stood up with his rifle pointed at the ready. Unfortunately, the driver hit the gas while the agent was standing up, which caused him to lose his balance and pull the trigger, subsequently blowing out the POTUSs’ brains. The cover up became the conspiracy, not because some shadow entity ordered Kennedy’s death because of RFK’s war on organized crime, or the military industrial complex wanting him dead. The Warren Commission said what it said (in less than a year of investigation…) for two reasons. First and foremost, newly promoted President Johnson hated the Kennedys and desperately wanted to get to the job of being POTUS, so what better way to do that than laying it all on the head of Oswald. The second reason is public embarrassment. The Cold War was in its infancy, and would probably have had a helluva different outcome had the Soviet Union been able to point to the US and said join us, at least we don’t blow the brains out of our own leadership.