Trump rally gunman searched online for JFK assassination details

FBI Director Christopher Wray says the gunman who shot Donald Trump at a campaign rally earlier this month is investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy  days before the shooting.
A bullet hit Trump's right ear and killed a bystander and seriously injured two others.
The gunman was also armed with a "honorable weapon, which may have made it easier to hide," Mr Wray said.
In his opening remarks, the FBI director described the attack on Trump as "an attack on our democracy and our democratic system."
"We do not accept and we will not accept any form of political violence, especially at this rate," he told parliament.
Mr. Wray said that on July 6  - a week before the shooting - the gunman looked up "how much he looked like Oswald  Kennedy" on the Internet while registering for a Trump rally.
Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President Kennedy in 1963.
investigators also learned that the bomber was watching news  about other members of the public.
Mr Wray said the shooter fired at least eight shots. The officers found 8 bullets in the ceiling where the gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was. In Crooks, a sniper killed
people during the event. The
AR rifle used in the shooting had a collapsible stock, which would have made the weapon shorter and lighter.
The first person to see the shooter was when he was  on the roof from where he shot, Wray said. He added that a police officer from the area looked at the gunman  before he opened fire.
detectives are working to determine if Crooks took the gun from the roof or if it was planted earlier.
The FBI director also confirmed that the bomber had flown a drone over the party about two hours before the shooting.
In addition, the FBI found three "related" explosives - one in the gunman's house and two  in his car.
These devices can be detonated at great distances if the gunman has a signal, Mr Wray said.
It does not appear that Crooks was able to leave the roof  he was on during the shooting, he added. The investigation also revealed that the gunman had gone to a shooting range where he had fired an AR rifle the day before the demonstration. The FBI believes it was the same weapon used in the attack.