JFK and the birth of conspiracy theories

Did a now-discredited 1988 British documentary influence a generation?

In 1988, ITV broadcast a major documentary about President John F Kennedy’s assassination, called The Men Who Killed Kennedy. You can find it on YouTube here. At that time there were only four TV channels on British TV and this was a big event, foreshadowed with newspaper adverts proclaiming that ‘Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill Kennedy, we’ll tell you wh…