Louis Stokes Biography and Timeline

Chairman of HSCA

Appointed 3rd Chairman of the HSCA

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Appointed third chairman of the HSCA

HSCA Chairman

Becomes chairman and stabilizes the committee investigation.

Role range: 1977-1979

HSCA Final Report

Presents the committee's final findings to Congress.

Role range: 1977-1979

Dictabelt Recording

Concludes 4 shots were fired, the fourth shot came from a second assassin located on the grassy knoll, but missed. The HSCA concluded the existence and location of this alleged fourth shot based on the later discredited Dallas Police Department Dictabelt recording analysis

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Concludes 4 shots were fired, the fourth shot came from a second assassin located on the grassy knoll, but missed.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Concludes acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that at least two gunmen fired at the President. Other scientific evidence does not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Kennedy, the second and third shots he fired struck the President, the third shot he fired killed the President. Concludes Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at Kennedy. The second and third shots Oswald fired struck the President.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy. Concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at President John F.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

The HSCA agreed with the single bullet theory, but concluded that it occurred at a time point during the assassination that differed from any of the several time points the Warren Commission theorized it occurred

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

The HSCA agreed with the single bullet theory, but concluded that it occurred at a time point during the assassination that differed from any of the several time points the Warren Commission theorized it occurred.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

The HSCA concluded the existence and location of this alleged fourth shot based on the later discredited Dallas Police Department Dictabelt recording analysis. Second chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

The House Select Committee on Assassinations concludes that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, probably as a result of a conspiracy. Second chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

The third shot he fired killed the President.

Magic Bullet

The HSCA agreed with the single bullet theory, but concluded that it occurred at a time point during the assassination that differed from any of the several time points the Warren Commission theorized it occurred