Lee Harvey Oswald, the sniper who shot 35th US president John F Kennedy from the upper floors of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas on 22 November 1963, was operating under direction from the former head of the CIA, a veteran investigator has argued in his latest book on the assassination.
Dr Cyril Wecht, a 90-year-old forensic pathologist who has studied the killing for almost six decades, claims in the The JFK Assassination Dissected that Oswald, who was himself murdered by local businessman Jack Ruby just two days after his arrest, had been under orders from Allen Dulles, CIA director from 1953 to 1961.
