John F. Kennedy was never assassinated. It was all a cover-up meant to deceive the people." The post pairs a JFK portrait with a photo of Donald Trump greeting an elderly veteran.

What We Found

Kennedy was assassinated. He was shot in Dealey Plaza in Dallas at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 22, 1963, and pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital at 1 p.m. An autopsy was done that night at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 25, 1963.

Every official investigation found he was killed. The Warren Commission (1964) concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots. In 1979 the House Select Committee on Assassinations said there was "probably" a conspiracy, but it also found that Kennedy was killed by gunfire. The records released from 2017 to 2025, including about 80,000 pages in March 2025, did not change that.

The man with Trump isn't Kennedy. He's Russell Pickett, a World War II veteran of the Army's 29th Division and one of the few survivors of his company's first wave at Omaha Beach. Trump hugged and honored him at the Normandy American Cemetery on June 6, 2019, for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Pickett was 94 then. He died Aug. 2, 2020.

The details don't fit Kennedy. JFK was born May 29, 1917, so he would have been 102 in June 2019. He served in the Navy in the Pacific, where he commanded PT-109, not in the Army at Normandy. The middle frame of the collage appears to blend the two men's faces. It isn't a real photo.

Sources

1. JFK Library, "November 22, 1963: Death of the President" (opens in new tab)
2. JFK Library, "Fast Facts about John F. Kennedy" (opens in new tab)
3. JFK Library, "A Nation Remembers" (opens in new tab)
4. National Archives, Warren Commission Report, Chapter 2 (opens in new tab)
5. National Archives, JFK Assassination Records background (opens in new tab)
6. National Archives, JFK Assassination Records 2025 release (opens in new tab)
7. ODNI press release on the March 18, 2025 release (opens in new tab)
8. The Sixth Floor Museum, House Select Committee on Assassinations (opens in new tab)
9. White House (archived), "On the Beaches of Normandy, President Trump Honors D-Day 75 Years Ago" (opens in new tab)
10. The Guardian (June 6, 2019), "'I would do it again,' says D-Day Omaha beach suicide wave veteran" (opens in new tab)
11. Chattanooga Times Free Press (Aug. 12, 2020), D-Day vet hugged by Trump remembered by family (opens in new tab)
12. Myth Detector (opens in new tab)
13. Hibrid.info (opens in new tab)