An older relative told me that ‘no one’ believed the cover story at the time. That’s saying something for people living in the US then.
I do remember the fuss about the Warren Commission and how prepousterous their conclusions were.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwarrenR.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKboggs.htm
Many were stunned at the total incompetence of the SS and the Dallas police....
Who would have ever thought that first the president of the United States gets blown away, then 2 days later, the GD assassin gets blown away on national television.
The Dallas PD is transferring the assassin of the President of the United States to a vehicle, and they've got armed unknowns in the immediate area?
Good grief!
So people would have you believe. But they aren't preposterous at all. The Warren Commission findings haven't been overturned in nearly 50 years.