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21. Five Bullets
The song is called "Five Bullets" because, according to songwriter Pascal Cormier, "John F. Kennedy was shot in the throat, twice in the back and then twice in the head simultaneously." Cormier sees a...
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20. The Smoking Gun
"The Smoking Gun" starts from the premise that the JFK assassination was the work of a lone gunman. This was, of course, the conclusion of the Warren Commission, but a couple of celebrated books have...
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19. Black Tears
According to songwriter Aaron Hutto, “Black Tears” bemoans the “dark forces in life... mental illness and emotional instability and forces from without that seemingly try to tear us apart.” Hutto notes...
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18. Single Bullet Theory
Exploding Castro Cigars present a version of the JFK assassination where John F. Kennedy is aware of what is happening to him and realizes that the bullets are coming from multiple directions. The song...
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17. Back and to the Left
JFn'K are a three piece from Detroit. They took their name from their first initials, with Jeremy "Jack" Ruby on Guitars/Vocalizations, Frank Lee Harvey Oswald on Bass, and Ken 'Warren Commission'...
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16. Dealey Plaza (Frame Z-313)
The Zapruder film is a home movie of JFK's motorcade taken by Abraham Zapruder, the owner of Jennifer Juniors, Inc., a clothing manufacturer with offices located in the Dal-Tex Building across the...
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15. Glad I'm Not a Kennedy
"Glad I'm Not a Kennedy", originally an international hit for New Zealand singer Shona Laing in 1986, is not just about the JFK assassination, but about the tragedies that have happened to various...
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14. Bullet
Jaw Horse provide the first of two versions of the Misfits' song "Bullet" on Conspiracy A-Go-Go. "Bullet" conveys the sex and violence of the JFK assassination. After describing JFK's wounds with vivid...
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13. Zombie Wok
Forget about the CIA, LBJ or the Cubans. Want to know who killed JFK? Zombies! Or so suggests the Karovas Milkshake. The Karovas Milkshake are from Ekaterinburg, Russia, which was behind the the Iron...
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12. Brain Damage (J Floyd K Remix)
"Brain Damage (J Floyd K Remix)" by the National Cynical Network comes from an album dedicated to JFK-related recordings called Puzzling Evidence - The JFK Show (2011). NCN take an acoustic version of...
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11. Marina
ST 37's "Marina" is a psychedelic track with samples of Marina Oswald, widow of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1961, Oswald met Marina Prusakova, then only 19, at a dance in Minsk during his...
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10. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
At 20 seconds, I think it's safe to say that "John Fitzgerald Kennedy" is the shortest song ever recorded about the JFK assassination. Despite the song's brevity, however, Le Rug establish a motive...
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9. O.H. Lee
“Lee Harvey Was a Friend of Mine” was a novelty country song by Homer Henderson & the Dalworthington Garden Boys released in 1985. In keeping with their practice of brief, often single-word song...
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7. Raise Them Up
According to songwriter Scott Prato a.k.a. Starry Night, “ ‘Raise Them Up’ is about the American culture that supports never ending war and violence. We educate children and raise them up just to carry...
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6. Get Outta Dallas
In "Get Outta Dallas" the fictional world of the TV series Dallas collides with the real-world JFK assassination, which took place, of course, in Dallas. On his website Mal Thursday claims that he was...
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5. Mark My Words
When Texas Governor John Connally, who was riding in the seat in front of John and Jackie Kennedy, realized he had been shot, he recalled saying, "My God, they are going to kill us all." The Warren...
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4. The Drag
The Bonnevilles play some mean slide guitar in this punk-blues lament for JFK. The track concludes with a recording of Kennedy's closing remarks from "The President and the Press," his address to the...
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3. God Damn Texas
Dark Fog give psychedelic expression to the anger and grief that followed JFK's assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Even though JFK's running mate was a Texan, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Kennedy...
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2. Kennedy's Head
One of the main pieces of evidence in the Warren Commission's investigation of the JFK assassination was a home movie taken by Abraham Zapruder, who was a spectator in Dealey Plaza as Kennedy's...
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1. Tell Me Why
On November 29, 1963, one week after the JFK assassination, Lyndon Johnson appointed a bipartisan "blue ribbon" panel to investigate the killing. The goal of the Warren Commission, named after its...
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