Files about the assassination of John F. Kennedy released
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U.S President John F. Kennedy with his wife Jackie Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. New files about the Kenedy assassination have been released and spark new insight on what may have happened that day.
December 15, 2017
Oct. 26 saw U.S President Donald Trump insisting the heads of the executive departments of the U.S intelligence agencies to declassify the many files kept secret regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The information, however, varies on its credibility.
And while the heads of said departments that include the CIA and the FBI have stated that they plan to gradually release the files as time passes by, choosing to release only 2800 of 5 million on Oct. 26, those recent files released to the public share new details relating to the assassination. This is because there were still some classified information that the agencies still have to look through for approval to be released.
Documents let go of by the National Archives concerned about the investigation of the Nov. 22, 1963 shooting in which gunman sniper Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK from a tall building as the president’s car passed through Dallas. These memos released revolved around the possibility of the connection between Oswald and various Communist sympathizers in the U.S at the time.
The Archives also revealed information pertaining to Cuba and Anti-Fidel Castro activities that occurred during the same timeline of the assassination of JFK.
A Nov. 22, 1963 memo from then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was included in one collection of the JFK documents in which Hoover supposedly sent an agent to see Oswald for a confession hours after Jack Ruby shot Oswald.
Some files detailed how Soviet Union reacted when JFK was shot, with the former authoritarian communist country feeling “great shock and consternation” as “church bells were tolled in memory” of the American president.
Details of those USSR files also asserted that perhaps the Soviets preferred Kennedy as a US leader because of his ability to come to a compromise with the Soviets. The Soviets also believed, according to the files, that the assassination was an attempted coup and blamed then Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson for it.
These documents were released because they were scheduled to be under the passage of the President J.F.K Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.
