JFK Files Out: Did John F Kennedy's Killer Harvey Oswald Act Alone? Find Out

Washington DC: The President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump declassified unredacted documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The documents were released by the National Archives and Record Administration on their website, an agency responsible for maintaining all the Government’s records. 

JFK’s Assassination 

On 22nd November1963, while the President of the United States of America John F. Kennedy was on a motorcade parade on the streets of Dallas, Texas, he was shot dead by a man identified as Lee Harvey Oswald. The Gunman was a 24-year old former marine, who shot him twice, first on his neck and second on the back of his head which exited from the front of his skull. The Warren Commission had revealed that Oswald shot the President from a Texas School Book Depository building and was arrested on the same day. 

Since then there have been many theories around the assassination plot revolving around if Oswald was acting alone and if there was a foreign connection? 

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Information from newly revealed files 

Foreign Connection and CIA’s Conspiracy: Declassified documents, totaling 1,123 documents, expose new details about the presidential assassination, including a CIA agent's warning about the shooter's suspicious foreign connections, specifically interactions with Russian and Cuban embassies in Mexico City before the president's death.

KGB angle: The files included a memo that stated Nikonov, a KGB official, reviewed “five thick volumes” on Oswald and was “confident that Oswald was at no time an agent controlled by KGB”. Adding further, he also noted that Oswald was under the KGB’s radar of close observation while Oswald was in the Soviet Union (erstwhile Russia). 

KGB, or Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, which translates to State Security Committee, was the main Intelligence agency of the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Other Information: Nikonov had also expressed in the memo, which was a part of the unredacted files released by the National Archives that Oswald had a lousy shot when he tried firing targets in the USSR. Another report on the ballistics revealed that the shot was fired from an elevated ground. These raise doubts about the preciseness of the gunman who fired the shot that ultimately resulted in the death of the President. The new information also contradicts the location of the gunman as revealed in the Warren Commission. 

What happened after Lee Harvey Oswald’s arrest?

Two days after Oswald’s arrest, he was shot, point-blank, on live TV by a man identified as Jack Ruby, resulting in Oswald’s immediate death. Newly revealed files reveal that Ruby was associated with some illegal organised crime unit.  

The newly released unredacted documents do not offer the exact account of who was to be blamed for the assassination of the President. However, they do raise a question that if Lee Harvey Oswald was really working alone or if at all he was even involved at all?