It was depicted in each case by the mainstream media as a simple conclusion, one to be reached without any investigation.

In that first instance that November 22, 1963 day as the report was delivered revealing that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas and was rushed to nearby Parkland Medical Center the first disclosure was issued immediately concerning his alleged assassin.

How amazing it was, or was it, to learn how much the mainstream media already knew about that "left loonie" loner, that slender, widely traveled ex-Marine married to the Russian woman he met while stationed in the Soviet Union.  

Not only had Lee Harvey Oswald shot the president from his Texas Schoolbook Depository vantage point; shortly after that he killed a Dallas policeman, J.D. Tippit, who found his activities suspicious and wanted to talk to him.