FBI declassified documents on Kennedy assassination

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

For a long time, documents on the assassination of 35 US President John F. Kennedy were classified. The limitation period is coming to an end and we can find out intriguing details of one of the main mysteries of the 20th century, stored in the US National Archives. But the CIA is preventing Trump from publicizing the 54-year-old case, as these documents can make them look unsightly. They were classified by Bush Sr., who previously headed the CIA. Trump tweeted that he will reveal classified documents today.

What documents will be declassified?

In 1992, an independent commission was convened to study the "murder of the century." All federal institutions have pledged to transfer to the National Archives documents in their possession related to the study of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States. For reasons of state security, the commission received the right to postpone the release of documents, but for at least 25 years, in other words, until 2017. The government commission formed earlier, in the wake of the offense, concluded that it was committed by lone killer Lee Harvey Oswald and that this is not a large-scale conspiracy. But not everyone accepted the official version.

Why was it not accepted?

Because there are many questions. Let's start with the main thing. Few believe that such a murder could have been committed by just one person, even if he served in the American Marine Corps.

In general, Oswald is a very interesting person. Suffice it to mention that he managed to live in the USSR, where he announced his renunciation of American citizenship and worked for two and a half years at a radio plant in Minsk. In Minsk, he met the notorious Shushkevich, one of those who later destroyed the USSR. In Minsk, Oswald managed not only to start a working career, but also to marry the daughter of a colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the BSSR Marina Prusakova, with whom he signed just a month after meeting. In total, Oswald spent two and a half years in the USSR, after which, in May 1962, he returned to the United States, having also managed to take his wife and child with him. Prusakova, by the way, was the first to testify against her husband.

Many questions from the conspiracy theorists are caused by the sudden accuracy of Oswald, who showed good results in shooting only once in the service, and in general he did not always shoot even at the required minimum for the offset. At the time of the murder, Oswald showed miracles of accuracy, firing three shots from a non-self-loading rifle in just 6 seconds, hitting a receding target twice. Note that Kennedy did not stand still and was at a distance of about 80 meters.

Oswald was arrested a little over an hour after the murder, and the reason for calling the police was going to the theater without a ticket. Seeing the police, Oswald attacked one of them, for which he was arrested. At the station, he was interrogated in the case of the murder of a policeman, and one of the detectives, upon hearing the name of the arrested person, said that it was a missing employee of the book depository, from whose attic the shots were allegedly fired.

Shortly after his arrest, Oswald, meeting with reporters in the corridor, said: “I did not shoot anyone. I was detained because I lived in the Soviet Union. I'm just a scapegoat! " Later, at a press conference, the journalist asked: "Did you kill the president?" Oswald, who by this time had already been charged with the Tippit murder but had not yet been charged with the Kennedy assassination, replied: “No, I was not accused of that. Nobody told me about it. The first time I heard about this was when some of the reporters in the audience asked me about it. " When he was taken out, he was asked the question: "How did you injure your eyes?" Oswald replied, "I was hit by a policeman."

Two days later, Oswald was killed: Jack Ruby, the owner of a nightclub in Dallas, shot him in the stomach while transferring Lee Harvey to the county jail. Oswald died in the same hospital as Kennedy. Naturally, the conspiracy theorists are sure that this murder is part of a conspiracy, especially since the motive for the shooting, which was witnessed by millions of TV viewers, Ruby called the desire "… to avoid Mrs. Kennedy's upset …"

To investigate the circumstances, a commission was created, headed by the head of the US Supreme Court, Earl Warren. 70% of the US population does not believe the conclusions of the commission. And the conclusions are as follows: Specifically, the scheme of what happened according to the Warren commission looked like this: Oswald, being on the sixth floor of the school book depository, armed with Carcano M91 / 38 caliber 6.5 mm, fired three shots from a distance of approximately 80 meters, one of which (which, the commission did not determine) did not reach the goal. The interval between the shot that wounded the president in the upper back and the fatal shot ranged from 4.8 to 5.6 seconds.

To put it simply, only one person turned out to be the organizer and perpetrator of the crime, who did not even have time to bring charges. The commission could not provide any direct evidence of the guilt of the already deceased Oswald. So, for example, the examination did not confirm the presence of a connection between the cartridges found at the scene of the murder of the patrolman, and Oswald's personal revolver. They also did not prove the connection between the rifle found in the attic and the alleged killer. It is worth noting. That Lee Harvey's prints were found on the rifle. But a week after his death. By the way, about 3% of the commission's documents have not yet been published.

The version with Oswald, although official, is far from the only one. Moreover, this version does not take into account the very interesting testimony of witnesses. So, in 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison initiated a lawsuit against banker Clay Shaw. According to the prosecutor's version. The assassination was orchestrated by a group of conspirators, and the gunman was not alone - some witnesses claimed to have heard shots from the direction of the hill. David Ferry - one of the main suspects in this case, died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage, having managed to leave two (!) Suicide notes at once. In 1969, the trial was completed with Shaw's full acquittal.

In 1976, a commission of the House of Representatives worked on the case. Having presented an audio recording where the fourth shot was heard, the commission tried to prove the inconsistency of Warren's conclusions, but the case was soon closed again.

The minds of conspiracy theorists are also fueled by many of the actions carried out by the investigation. For example, there was no ballistic examination of Kennedy's brain that could have allowed the location to be identified. Where the shot was fired from. Investigators did not find 2 bullets out of three, and they did not find out which of the bullets had wounded the governor. Oswald's widow also "changed her shoes" and began to tell reporters that Lee Harvey was innocent.

Interesting is the statement of a certain James Files, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for a number of crimes. Among them is the murder of a police officer. He claimed to have shot Kennedy: “I picked up the cartridge case and put it in my mouth. I love the taste of gunpowder. I bit the sleeve, which is my trademark, and put it on the picket fence. I probably shouldn't have done this, but then the blood hit my head. This is one of the moments when you feel above the crowd … After all, we were sure that we were not just fulfilling another order, but doing a good deed by removing the communist president. Now I understand that this is not entirely true ….

After the shot, Files began to leave, but a police officer followed him, immediately stopped by two men in black. There are testimonies of a policeman, who asserts that two people with secret service IDs did not allow him to enter the grassy hill. Interestingly, the representatives of the secret service were not officially present on the grassy mound.

When asked about the number of shots fired by Oswald, Files said: “Not one … And I shouldn't have. I think that until the last moment he did not know what was happening. He was in his position, but did not really understand how it would turn out for him in the end. He saw his role in no way connected with the one that eventually got to him. But the fact that he did not shoot is for sure ….

Files spoke of his involvement in the 1994 murder, but the cartridge case was still found in 1987, when he had been serving his sentence for a long time. Moreover, the gardener found her quite by accident, digging in the ground. But approximately in the place indicated by the criminal. Prior to Files' statements, the cartridge case was not considered evidence.

Well, a little about the most murdered. He was elected with a scandal, only two tenths of a percent ahead of his rival Richard Nixon, who later became president and deserved impeachment. He did not rule for long, but brightly, noting himself with the struggle with the US Federal Reserve, and therefore with attempts to get his hands on much more power than he had at the time of the election. It is worth noting that the FRS is the "printing press" of the dollar, the main world currency …

Kennedy crossed the road and the mafia, although before John's presidency, his family worked very closely with the mafia. The hunt for gangsters that had begun quickly ended, most of the cases were closed, but the sediment remained.

Kennedy also noted interesting turns in foreign policy. It was he who tried to carry out a failed operation in the Bay of Pigs, blaming and forcing the resignation of the CIA chief Alain Dulles, it was he who declared Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, the lands of the rising peoples”, it was under him that the Cold War reached its climax (Caribbean crisis), but it was Kennedy who approved the sale of $ 250 million worth of grain to the Soviet Union, which helped to cope with the consequences of Khrushchev's love for corn.

Kennedy had a great and mutual dislike for Lyndon Johnson, his own vice president, a very, very ambitious and power-hungry man who dreamed of taking the presidency. Actually, he began to rule immediately after John's death. On the evening of November 21, on the eve of the murder, Johnson and Dulles talked privately about something for about half an hour, after which Johnson left the room with the words: “That's it. From the day after tomorrow, these sons of bitches, Kennedy, will no longer be able to scoff at me! This bastard, mafioso, John F. Kennedy can never offend me again!"

Here is such a man who annoyed many and uncomfortable, shrouded, among other things, and high-profile sex scandals, was killed on November 22, 1963 in Dallas. It is not known for certain by whom and for what. Perhaps tomorrow the veil of this secret will be slightly opened. But it is not exactly.

UPD:

After all, only a part of the documents were declassified, which reported on the reaction of the USSR to the assassination of Kennedy.

"The Soviet authorities feared a possible military strike from the United States after the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy. This is stated in the FBI documents declassified by the American National Archives."

Let me remind you that in July the National Archives published the testimony of a KGB officer Yuri Nosenko who fled to the United States in 1964, who claimed that he was in charge of Oswald's case when he was in the USSR.

It is worth noting that the documents are published in such a sequence that the thought of the Soviet agent who killed Kennedy crept into the minds of the Americans. If this were really so, then Nosenko's interview would go down in history, but there is no evidence in it. Any conclusions can be drawn only when all documents on the Kennedy assassination are declassified.