Kevin McAleer on his obsession with JFK’s murder 52 years ago today

JFK’s funeral was the first thing the comedian saw on television. This may explain his fascination with the subject, which he tried to turn into a novel and now here into a poem

Way to Heaven/Assassins

Rough Magic’s Seeds double bill is perhaps the most auspicious and brilliant of the company’s culminations yet

Dublin-born Bishop of Dallas recalls moment he heard of JFK shooting

Bishop Kevin Farrell reads opening prayer at ceremony to mark Kennedy’s death at Dealey Plaza

Interest in JFK conspiracies dwindling as other fantasies get online attention

A majority in a recent poll still do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. But the figure is lower than at any point since John F Kennedy’s assassination. What’s going on?

Oswald’s act in Dallas gave us a myth that shaped our understanding of the 60s

Opinion: The ‘change’ or ‘hope’ symbolised by JFK was not of the kind normally associated with the political left

Remembering our JFK

From tragedy to pop-culture punchline

Reinventing Kennedy to suit books, TV and film has blurred his significance

Dallas then: ‘nut country’

JFK defied warnings and premonitions from those close to him to visit a very hostile territory

JFK’s assassin

Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?

Dallas still defined by Kennedy’s assassination in 1963

JFK’s ambition went unfulfilled – yet he managed to inspire a generation

Hollywood's JFK

JFK: Conspiracy theories

Doubts that just won’t die

Half a century later, unanswered questions and conspiracy theories still lure visitors to the site of US president John F Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas

Dallas Now: Trying to Forget

Tourists still gawp at the grassy knoll, but today’s city is an entirely different place to the Dallas of 1963