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The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society -- John F. Kennedy

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Former #CIA officer Ray McGovern agrees with @RobertKennedyJr by implicating the Agency in JFK killing: via @YouTube #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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Far from being a lone nut who came out of nowhere and shot the President, #CIA counterintelligence (CI) was monitoring Oswaldโ€™s mail while he was living in Russia. #JFKFiles #FBI #JFKassassination
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Jack Ruby was a regular patron of Lucas B&B Cafe and was often seen in the presence of Dallas Police Officers. According to waitress Mary Lawrence, Ruby met there with Oswald in the early hours of 11/22/63. If Oswald was at Ruth Paineโ€™s sleeping, was this another double? Lawrence
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Fidel Castro believed one assassin could not possibly have committed the assassination. He ordered a reenactment using his best marksmen and they could not duplicate what Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly accomplished alone: #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI
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Fidel Castroโ€™s First Speech on the JFK assassination: โ€œWhat made Kennedy's assassination even harder for Fidel to swallow was the fact that, at the time of the murder, he and Kennedy were working on a relaxation of tensions between the two countries through a network of
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As the President's motorcade made its way through downtown Dallas, an unknown woman calls the Atomic Energy Commission in Los Angeles between 10:15 - 10:20 PST, claiming to be the executive secretary of an organization "๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž
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Virtually all early media reports flew in the face of the official findings. From the the nature of the wounds, shot locations to the type of rifle found and timing of the casketโ€™s departure: via @YouTube #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKassassination
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Charles De Gaulle saw a conspiracy with the Dallas Police implicated. #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKassassinated
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The 38 caliber Colt Cobra revolver used by Jack Ruby to murder Oswald was registered to a member of the Dallas Police Department. Detective Joe Cody met Ruby in 1951 when he was in Army Counterintelligence in Dallas and remained friends after joining the DPD. In January 1960,
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Very strange indeed...๐Ÿ‘‡
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Iโ€™m unsure if people are widely aware that Jack Ruby stalked Oswald - at Dallas Police HQ - for 48 hours before killing him But itโ€™s true And itโ€™s very strange
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The Warren Commission claimed it was fortuitous timing that Ruby was at the Dallas Police Department at the time of Oswaldโ€™s transfer. Yet the #FBI statement of John A. Smith of WBAP-TV places Ruby there throughout the morning and asking if Oswald had been brought out yet.
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Less than six weeks before the assassination, the man who is alleged to have killed the President was under surveillance by the #FBI and #CIA . #JFKFiles #JFKAssassination
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According to Dallas Police, Oswald was arrested in the lower floor of the Texas Theater. However, according to Detective Stringfellow, he was arrested in the balcony. Also, officers reported a man was held at the stairs leading to the balcony and a suspect was seen entering the
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#JFKFiles | Document reveals detailed allegations of a CIA plot in Paris during Kennedy's 1961 state visit with Charles de Gaulle. #JFKAssassination #OswaldPatsy #DeepState #CIA
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On the morning of 11/22/63, when Lee Harvey Oswald was supposedly working at the TSBD, a man twice comes into the Jiffy Store on Industrial Boulevard near Dealey Plaza. He purchased candy and two bottles of beer and was asked for ID by clerk Fred Moore. He promptly displayed a
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Oswald's aunt, Lillian Murrett, reveals a startling encounter: Clay Shaw came to their door looking for Lee just days after he left New Orleans in late Sept '63. Shaw had always denied knowing Oswald. #History #JFKFiles #FBI #CIA
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Dr. Malcolm Perry at Parkland Hospital describes a large head wound in the โ€œ๐’“๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’“ ๐’‚๐’“๐’†๐’‚.โ€ How did this become a small entry wound at Bethesda? #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssassination
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๐‰๐š๐œ๐ค ๐‘๐ฎ๐›๐ฒ ๐–๐š๐ฌ ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐…๐๐ˆ ๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ— J. Edgar Hoover notifies Warren Commission General Counsel on 6/9/64 of the Bureau's interest in Ruby providing information on "๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’„๐’“๐’Š๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’‚๐’”."
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In the early morning hours of 11/25/63, a man identifying himself as Jim Wilson, a former UP newspaperman, calls the home of Janet Auchincloss, mother of Jackie Kennedy, with startling claims: "๐™๐™ค๐™ง ๐™‚๐™ค๐™™'๐™จ ๐™จ๐™–๐™ ๐™š ๐™œ๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™๐™ค๐™ก๐™™ ๐™ค๐™› ๐˜ฝ๐™ค๐™—๐™—๐™ฎ ๐™ค๐™ง ๐™…. ๐™€๐™™๐™œ๐™–๐™ง ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™
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As early as March 1964, Lyndon Johnson was ending any and all talk of withdrawing from Vietnam, committing U.S. forces โ€œuntil the Communist guerillas are defeated.โ€ #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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Shot from the front | Retired #USSS agent, Floyd Boring, tells the ARRB in 1996 that he and Paul J. Paterni, retired deputy chief of the U.S. Secret Service and former OSS (a forerunner of the #CIA ) officer were searching the Presidential limousine and Secret Service follow-up
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At 9:55 PM on 11-22-63, the Secret Service urgently dispatched a copy of the now-infamous Zapruder film to Chief Rowley in Washington via air courier. Accompanying the film was a memorandum from Special Agent Max Phillips. In his note, Phillips succinctly described the contents:
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Witnesses claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald was in Mason's Gun Shop on Friday, November 1st at 3:30 looking for ammunition and acting belligerently as if to draw attention to himself. Mason's was located in Fort Worth, 35mi from the TSBD, where Oswald should have been working and
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The Garrison investigation receives a tip on a possible Shaw-Ferrie connection from Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Martin Waldron of the NY Times. #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssassination
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โ€œOswald had intelligence connections. Everywhere you look with him, there are fingerprints ofย intelligence.โ€ - Senator Richard Schweiker #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKassassination
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Was Dan Rather misleading the public? After seeing the Zapruder film in private, he says on air for CBS the film shows the Presidentโ€™s head thrown โ€œviolently forward.โ€ The public would learn otherwise in 1975 when Geraldo Rivera airs the film on Goodnight America: Dan Rather's
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The Magic Bullet in JFK Assassination is not the bullet found at Parkland Hospital #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssassination
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During an interview with the FBI, Judge Jesse C. Duvall of Fort Worth revealed that he had met the de Morenschildts in January 1963 and several months later had dined with the couple in Dallas. He reported that over dinner, de Mohrenschildt had asked if he might assist his new
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Marguerite Oswald was suspicious that Peter Paul Gregory was not accurately translating Marinaโ€™s statements to the #USSS and that he had leaked Oswaldโ€™s diary to The Dallas Morning News. Gregory knew George de Mohrenschildt and was an โ€˜independent contractorโ€™ for #CIA under
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J.C. Price watches the motorcade from rooftop of the Terminal Annex Bldg; hears a โ€˜volley of shotsโ€™ and gives a description of a man running from the fence to the railroad yard; yet an #FBI report a few days later claims he โ€˜saw nothing pertinent.โ€™ #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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Who was impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald? This came to the attention of the State Department while he was in Russia: #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssasination
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By 1963, JFK clearly held #CIA Director John McCone in low esteem, referring to him as "a real bastard...stupid as a horse's ass" in a recorded call with RFK. #JFKFiles #JFKAssassination
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In 1974 Call to Abolish CIA, Bernie Sanders Followed in Footsteps of JFK and Truman; complained ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ˆ๐€ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ โ€œ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ-๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฌ๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ.โ€
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The day after the assassination, J. Edgar Hoover sends a report to Jesse Curry admitting they have no fingerprints on either weapon Oswald allegedly used to kill President Kennedy and Officer Tippit. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination #FBI #CIA
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What proof existed that Oswald ever collected the mail-order weapons? There was none. The guns of Lee Harvey Oswald: #simplesharebuttons U.S. Postal Inspector Harry Holmes was the last person to question Oswald on 11/24/63 before he was shot by Ruby at
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Highly unlikely Howard Brennan was able to make a physical description of a man in the 6th floor window from his vantage point at Houston & Elm. #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssassination
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Watergate burglar and #CIA operative, Frank Sturgis, has been the subject of various allegations regarding the assassination. In 1976, Sturgis made claims that Ruby met with Fidel Castro in Havana within weeks of Dallas and that Oswald and Ruby were part of a conspiracy with
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Witnesses placed Oswald-Ruby-Tippit at Dobbs House diner at 1221 North Beckley, a short walk from Oswaldโ€™s rooming house. Waitress Mary Adda Dowling tells #FBI Oswald & Tippit were there on the morning of 11/20/63, but she was never called before the Warren Commission:
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Journalist Hugh Aynesworth has made a career pushing the โ€˜lone nutโ€™ narrative. This J. Walton Moore memo shows that Aynesworth was in contact with the Dallas #CIA office and had on at least one occasion โ€˜offered his services to usโ€™. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination #CIA
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๐‚๐ˆ๐€ ๐ƒ๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐“๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ’ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ In addition to its broader aim of developing mind control techniques, Project ARTICHOKE specifically conducted studies to determine if individuals could be
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The Warren Commission alleged Lee Harvey Oswald left his rooming house around 1pm with a revolver and "walked briskly" the 9/10 of a mile to Tenth & Patton, where he crossed paths with Officer Tippit before fatally shooting him around 1:15. The problem is, police and autopsy
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Warren Commission General Counsel, J. Lee Rankin, writes J. Edgar Hoover on 7/23/64 with concerns on the veracity of a palm print found on the rifle. The Dallas Police Department allegedly lifted a latent impression "๐™ค๐™›๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™™๐™š๐™ง๐™จ๐™ž๐™™๐™š ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™œ๐™ช๐™ฃ
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J. Edgar Hoover recommends to lead Warren Commission counsel, J. Lee Rankin that he not release certain #FBI reports and memoranda dealing with Michael and Ruth Paine and George and Jeanne de Mohrenschlidt. โ€œMaking the contents of such documents available to the public could
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Curry Says Evidence on Oswald Fail To Prove He Fired Rifle - UPI Nov 6, 1969 #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKassassination
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One of the more obscure pieces of evidence in the JFK case is a package mailed to Lee Oswald shortly before the assassination from Irving, TX. It was discovered in the dead letter dept. of Irving post office on 12/4/63. Oddly, the street address did not exist in Dallas andโ€ฆ
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Just 10 days after the assassination, former ambassador to Ireland and close friend of the Kennedy's, Grant Stockdale, leaped (or was pushed) to his death from his office window in Miami. The police rule it "an apparent suicide" with Stockdale leaving behind his wife and five
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JFK contemplated "reorganizing" the #ClA after its failures at Bay of Pigs. Memorandum from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Special Assistant to the President, to President John F. Kennedy, โ€œCIA Reorganization,โ€ June 30, 1961. | National Security Archive:
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Motive for assassination? In September 1963, the Bobby Baker scandal implicating Lyndon Johnson was public knowledge, leading to rumors he would be dropped from the 1964 ticket. The Senate investigations underway before 11/22/63 were dropped once LBJ assumed power. #JFKFiles #CIA
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At a March 1962 press conference, President Kennedy emphasized a cautious approach to Vietnam, stating that while the U.S. was providing support and advisors, there were no current plans to commit combat troops. #JFKFiles #ColdWar #Vietnam #JFK
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Like a sacrificial lamb, Oswald was lead out to his killing despite advance warnings when the transfer plans had been made public. #JFKFiles #FBI #JFKassassination
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Cheryl McKinnon was a journalism major who witnessed the assassination. She was adamant โ€œat least two of the shots fired that day in Dealey Plaza came from behind where I stood on the knoll, not back from the book depository.โ€ #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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Not only did LBJ not discount others than Oswald were involved, he suspected #CIA complicity behind the assassination: #JFKFiles #FBI #JFKAssassination
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On the evening of 11/21/63, store owner Gregory Basila of San Antonio is approached by a lone male of Cuban descent, who comments "๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ ๐Š๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ž๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ƒ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ. ๐ˆ๐ง ๐ƒ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ" before walking out. At this time, the President's
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#FBI agents James Sibert and Francis Oโ€™Neill attended the autopsy at Bethesda. They were not called before the WC and their notes were classified. Arlen Specter knew they provided evidence that the single-bullet theory could not be true. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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The narrative of Oswald as an โ€œangry psychopathโ€ by WC apologists is bad fiction. Those who knew him best said he admired JFK - George de Mohrenschildt: I Am a Patsy! #JFKFiles #JFKassassination #FBI #CIA
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James Angleton, head of CIA Counterintelligence, sends a memo to FBI Director Hoover on 1/30/64 concerning reports that Jack Ruby had visited Cuba in late 1962 or early 1963. Ruby was seen at the Hotel Sevilla and its casino was closely associated with Havana's mafia network,
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Victor Marchetti, a former #CIA officer of 14 years, admits in Dec 1973 that top Agency officials buried any connection with Clay Shaw and expressed the need to "give help to" Shaw and his defence team. Marchetti confirms ๐’๐ก๐š๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฉ๐š๐ข๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž
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FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was very familiar with the name Lee Harvey Oswald long before 11/22/63. Oswald had been the subject of many internal memos that crossed Hooverโ€™s desk as far back as 1959. #JFKFiles #FBI #JFKAssasination
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CIA photo of โ€œOswaldโ€ in Mexico City : Was this man known to CIA? This memo from Win Scott (MX Station Chief) to J.C. King (Chief of Western Hemisphere) suggests that is the case. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination #CIA
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#FBI informant claimed Dallas police officer J.D Tippit was the real JFK assassin - not Lee Harvey Oswald; the memo also says a week before the assassination Tippit, the head of the right-wing John Birch Society in Dallas, and a third party who was possibly Oswald, met in Jack
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President Kennedy tried to stop the CIA-backed assassination of Dominican Republic dictator Gen. Rafael Trujillo in May 1961: #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssassination
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Agency cable of 12/4/63 concerning Soviet Consulate-General alleging Oswald was sent to USSR and married Soviet girl under #CIA instructions. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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Jack Ruby was far from being just a Dallas nightclub operator. #FBI informant acquainted with Ruby reports on his activities in Miami and gunrunning to โ€œthe Castro organization in Cuba.โ€ #CIA had 201-742862 file on Ruby. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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By October 1963, JFK's foreign policy was facing GOP opposition that "will make the Kennedy-Nixon dialogue of 1960 look tame." #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssassination
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Not only did LBJ dismiss the single bullet theory, he told Walter Cronkite in 1969 that he โ€œhad not discountedโ€ the possibility others than Oswald were involved. #JFKFiles #JFKAssassination
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Despite claiming ignorance, Priscilla Johnson McMillan was clearly a #CIA asset who interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald in Moscow and befriended Marina after the assassination. Aline Mosby, the other journalist Oswald granted an interview, told the HSCA that Priscilla Johnson had a
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Despite appearances, 'The Sweetheart of the New Orleans Establishment' had a dark side: A month before the arrest of Clay Shaw, Garrison investigators receive a tip emanating from his former housekeeper, alleging his S&M tendencies lead to the mysterious death of an individual at
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Where did the Mannlicher-Carcano bullets come from? The #FBI never could prove Oswald had possessed 6.5mm ammunition, but determined the Illinois-based manufacturer likely sold these rounds to the #CIA under the guise of a U.S. Marine Corps contract. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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JFK issues NSAM 161 transferring responsibility of U.S. Internal Security Programs from the National Security Council to his most trusted advisor, his brother the Attorney General. #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssassination
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Richard Carr was on the sixth floor of the courthouse building in Dealey Plaza. He sees a man in the window of the TSBD wearing โ€œa hat, a tan sportcoat and glasses.โ€ After hearing shots, he runs downstairs and sees the same man walking fast along Houston Stโ€ฆ
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In 1977, William C. Sullivan, former head of FBI domestic intelligence, died under suspicious circumstances in a hunting "accident" just days before his scheduled testimony before the HSCA. Known for his contentious relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, Sullivan's death raises many
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The HSCA picked up the Bishop "lead" and questioned DCI John McCone about it in August 1978. McCone recalled a "Maurice Bishop" and believed the man was an Agency employee, but did not know where he worked or what his duties were. #CIA management became concemed that the former
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New York Times correspondent, Tad Szulc, was 'persona non grata' with the CIA. He broke the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and wrote about a second invasion project - "๐’๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐š๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐†๐ฎ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š" - aborted in 1965 by Lyndon Johnson. Szulc claimed that JFK
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2 years
Clay Shaw is arrested March 1967 and his next door neighbor, James Lewallen, is subpoenaed for questioning by Jim Garrison. Lewallen was a close friend of David Ferrie, having met in 1947 in the Civil Air Patrol and were roommates 1953-1955. Shaw denied knowing either man,
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2 years
SS Agent Roy Kellerman rode in the front passenger seat of the limousine. He was adamant with the Warren Commission that Kennedy had sustained four wounds and felt there had to more than three shots; repeats a โ€œflurry of shellsโ€ came in the car. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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Three witnesses gave statements after the assassination that they saw two men at the 6th floor window. Arnold Rowland was called before the WC and his credibility was smeared by #FBI , while Ruby Henderson & Carolyn Walther were not called to testify. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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1 year
At a time when back channel dialogue for dรฉtente was ongoing between emissaries for Kennedy and Castro, the #CIA had a sympathetic ear in the Joint Chiefs who felt that "๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐๐ž๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ฒ
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1 year
Was the backyard photo faked to incriminate Oswald? Photo technologists at the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) concluded it was in 1977. #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKassassination
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Just ten days after Kennedy is assassinated, LBJ issues a memo to Gen. Maxwell Taylor for assignment of military forces to South Vietnam. This was in stark contrast to Kennedy's plans for withdrawal, which Johnson told McNamara was foolish in February 1964. #JFKFiles #CIA #JFK60
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Ruth Paine's house in Irving was very small, yet Oswald was able to store his rifle there for weeks without her knowledge and allegedly construct a rifle sack with heavy wrapping paper the night before the assassination undetected. #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssassination
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2 years
Warren Commission counsel Norman Redlich drafts a 7/2/64 memo to Allen Dulles regarding #FBI analysis of paraffin tests on Oswald. Seven months into their investigation and the Commission had no concrete evidence that LHO fired a weapon 11/22/63. #JFKFiles #JFKAssassination #CIA
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The 'Oswald was nuts' angle was a ludicrous attempt to blanket the fact the Warren Report failed to establish a credible motive. #JFKFiles #CIA #FBI #JFKAssassination
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James Angleton shares cable from #CIA Station in London with J. Edgar Hoover - British newspaper got anonymous call 25 minutes before JFK assassination with a tip to โ€œcall the American Embassy in London for some big news.โ€ #JFKFiles #JFKassassination #FBI
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1 year
Was Navy Lt. Commander William Bruce Pitzer suicided at Bethesda? He was an officer of the U.S. Navy whose death is speculated to have had some connection with the JFK assassination. In November 1963, William Pitzer worked at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) at Bethesda
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#FBI is made aware of an alleged meeting and overheard conversation between Jack Ruby, officer J. D. Tippit and Bernard Weissman on 11/14/63 at the Carousel Club. Weissman, who had ties to the John Birch Society and Edwin Walker, arranged for the anti-Kennedy advert in the Dallas
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1 year
Statement of Edward James Whalen concerning David Ferrie's persuading him to come to New Orleans, where Ferrie introduced him to Clay Shaw. During the course of a number of meetings, he states that ๐‘ญ๐’†๐’“๐’“๐’Š๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘บ๐’‰๐’‚๐’˜ ๐’”๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’•๐’ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’“๐’† ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž ๐’•๐’ ๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’
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Jeanne de Mohrenschildt tips off a reporter on their relationship with #CIA Dallas chief J. Walton Moore. A year later, George would be dead before speaking with HSCA investigators. #JFKFiles #FBI #JFKassassination
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'๐–๐ž ๐–๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐’๐ก๐ฎ๐ญ ๐”๐ฉ': ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐“๐ฐ๐จ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ ๐‚๐จ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐–๐ก๐จ ๐„๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐‡๐จ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ซ๐ž ๐€๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐‰๐…๐Š ๐Š๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ : J. Edgar Hoover was exasperated on the afternoon of 11/24/63.ย President Kennedy had been dead for two days when the head
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2 years
Was there a link between Lee Oswald and H.L. Hunt? The mysterious note written just two weeks before the assassination bears scrutiny. #JFKFiles #FBI #CIA #JFKassassination
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The Vanishing Epileptic: Just minutes before the motorcade turns into Dealey Plaza, a man appears to be having a seizure and is taken to Parkland Hospital by ambulance; but walks off and is never admitted. Was he a decoy for distracting officers? #JFKFiles #JFKassassination
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1 year
On a brief return to Dallas from Haiti in the spring of 1963, George de Mohrenschildt invites Lee and Marina Oswald for a visit to the home of Admiral Henry C. Bruton. The Admiral took early retirement from the Navy in 1960 for an executive position with Collins Radio
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Dallas Police turned to right-wing military intelligence official/Dallas oilman Jack A. Crichton shortly after the assassination to find a Russian translator for questioning Marina Oswald. Crichton recommended Ilya Mamantov, an anti-Communist activist and a Dallas oil company
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2 years
Jack Ruby speaks with the press and drops hints of the nature of a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy. #JFKFiles #JFKassassination #CIA #FBI
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Two months after the assassination and Federal authorities were struggling to provide "satisfactory public answers" to nagging questions. The SBT had not yet been concocted by Arlen Specter as investigators claimed the first shot hit the President ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐จ๐Ÿ
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