The killing of Lee Harvey Oswald on live television was dramatic, and helped to spark decades of speculation about a conspiracy surrounding Kennedy’s assassination. Much less remembered was the trial that followed - a trial to convict a man who had committed murder in front of millions of witnesses.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.