
The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the Book Depository
The Texas School Book Depository sits at the center of this video essay from director David Wångstedt, which walks through the moments before, during, and after the shots that killed President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The film traces the motorcade route through Dealey Plaza, climbs to the sixth-floor window known as the Sniper's Nest, and lays out the case built against Lee Harvey Oswald alongside the physical and testimonial evidence that has kept the case contested for decades. Witness accounts from the plaza and the surrounding buildings are weighed against the official timeline, and Jack Ruby's shooting of Oswald two days later closes out the sequence of events as its own unresolved complication. Rather than settling on a single theory, the film lays out the competing readings of the same handful of facts: the window, the rifle, the seconds available to fire it, and the witnesses who never agreed on what they saw or heard.