JFK Back and to the left explained

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison popularized the phrase "back and to the left" during his investigation into the JFK assassination. He argued it supported a conspiracy involving multiple shooters, a theory dramatized in Oliver Stone's 1991 film *JFK*. Garrison's courtroom repetition of the phrase, paired with the Zapruder film, framed it as evidence of a shot from the front, challenging the Warren Commission's lone gunman conclusion. His work brought the term into public consciousness.