JFK assassination files released: Recap updates as Kennedy files reveal Lee Harvey Oswald might not have been real gunman

President Donald Trump has approved the
declassification of 2,800 secret files on the
assassination of JFK - ending more than 50 years of
mystery.
John F Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas in 1963 and
Lee Harvey Oswald was named the killer in the
official version of events.
But the murder has been shrouded in conspiracy
theories for decades that have cast doubt on what
really happened on that fateful day in Texas.
Some 2,800 of the documents have been released by
the US National Archive under a 25-year secrecy law
from 1992.
But some files will be held back after intelligence and
security agencies raised concerns.
Incredibly, some of the documents point to a Dallas
police officer as the actual assassin. He was shot by
Lee Harvey Oswald around 45 minutes after the
President was targeted.
You can read more below.
Breakdown of today's JFK files
For a full breakdown of the files released on John F.
Kennedy’s assassination, you can read more here:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/jfk-files-
reveal-dallas-cop-11422539
Robert F. Kennedy warned about
Marilyn Monroe
The FBI warned Robert F. Kennedy about a book
regarding his alleged affair with Marilyn Monroe,
according to new JFK assassination documents now
released.
A July 15, 1964, letter from the bureau to the then-
Attorney General advised him he was due to be
exposed over his relationship with the film star.
The book also claimed Kennedy was working with
communists “behind the scenes” to have her killed.
The alleged plot was then to be covered up as a
suicide, the FBI letter said.
The book also said Kennedy was at her apartment the
night she died in August 1962. Agents wrote that
allegation was “branded as false as the Attorney
General was actually in San Francisco with his wife at
the time Marilyn Monroe committed suicide.”
Marilyn Monroe (Image: Michael Ochs Archives)
Trump "was resistant" about delaying
release of files
Trump “was resistant” after the CIA argued for a delay
in the release of the files.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo was a lead advocate in
arguing to the White House for keeping some
materials secret, one senior administration official
said.
While Kennedy was killed over half a century ago, the
document file included material from investigations
during the 1970s through the 1990s.
Intelligence and law enforcement officials argued their
release could thus put at risk some more recent ``law
enforcement equities’’ and other materials that still
have relevance, the official said.
Trump was resistant but “acceded to it with deep
insistence that this stuff is going to be reviewed and
released in the next six months,” the official added.
Trump was resistant to the delay (Image: Barcroft
Media)
JFK film director Oliver Stone speaks
Filmmaker Oliver Stone, who directed American-
conspiracy theory film JFK back in 1991, has released
a statement on the release of today’s files.
Stone, who has often made films on controversial
American political issues, told Trump to “stay true to
his word”.
He wrote: “Yesterday, over 3,100 files were supposed
to be finally released, 25 years after the JFK Act was
passed and 20 years after the Review Board closed its
doors. The page count is reportedly in the tens of
thousands.
“But yet the CIA is still trying to hold up the process
by claiming they want redactions in these declassified
documents, 54 years after JFK was killed. They
waited until the last day to file an appeal when they
knew 3 months ago that today was the deadline.
“President Trump should stay true to his word.
Declassify everything.”
Oliver Stone is known for making films about
controversial American political issues (Image:
WENN.com)
Cambridge News had a 'tip off' 25
mins before JFK shooting
Newly-released files claimed an anonymous caller
rang the Cambridge News in November 1963 just 25
minutes before the shooting.
MI5 said the unnamed caller told a reporter to “call
the American Embassy in London for some big news”
before hanging up.
It was claimed that a suspected Soviet spy from
Grimsby may have been the mystery caller.
But other former Cambridge News staff who worked
on the paper in the 1960s said they doubted the call
ever happened.
Rodney Tibbs, 83, said: “No such call was received as
far as I’m concerned. “The proof is that no story of
that nature was ever published at the time. You
wouldn’t just sit on a story like that.
“I just think it’s an absurd thought. It just would not
have happened.
“At the time I was just a junior reporter. I don’t
remember a phone call coming or any discussion
about such a phone call.”
Rodney Tibbs was a junior reporter at Cambridge
News at the time of the assassination (Image:
SWNS.com)
Soviets suspected Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the
assassination
Soviets also suspected then Vice President Lyndon B.
Johnson could have been behind Kennedy’s death,
according to one of the 2,891 newly released
documents.
In a note, from December 1, 1966, FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover said he was aware a US intelligence
mole in Moscow was saying the KGB was “in
possession of data purporting to indicate Johnson was
responsible for the assassination”.
It came as the Kremlin feared it would be blamed for
the President’s death and subject to retaliation.
The details emerged in a message to the White House
called ‘Reaction of Soviet and Communist Party
officials to the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy’.
Soviet officials suspected Vice President Lyndon B.
Johnson (Image: REUTERS)
What do we know about Officer J. D.
Tippit and did he kill JFK?
Several sources believed the local police were behind
JFK’s assassination.
Newly released documents detail how an FBI
informant identified patrolman Tippit who was shot
dead by Lee Harvey Oswald 45 minutes after JFK was
killed.
According to a note sent to federal agents, a source
was told by an H. Theodore Lee “the president was
actually assassinated by Dallas police officer TIPPIT”.
The informant said Lee had received the information
from several, previously active, members of the Fair
Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC).
The note also stated a week before the assassination
Tippit, who was alleged to be the head of the right-
wing John Birch Society in Dallas, and a third man -
possibly Oswald - met in Jack Ruby’s nightclub.
Ruby shot Oswald two days after Kennedy’s
assassination and died of lung cancer in 1967.
The two men had supposedly met in a Florida airport
as part of a group heading to Cuba to “cut sugar
cane” and were heard discussing “Big Bird” by an
informant.
Officer J. D. Tippit (Image: Bettmann)
Lee would tell the FBI, communist Oswald was
somehow involved in both the anti-Castro movements
and the FPCC which allowed him to see both “sides
of the issues involved”.
J.D Tippit was in his patrol car when he stopped
Oswald walking down Patton Avenue in Dallas on the
day of Kennedy’s death, just after the President was
assassinated.
After talking to Oswald through the window of his car
Tippit got out, only to be shot by Oswald three times
from a .38 calibre revolver. The autopsy on the cop’s
body showed he then took a bullet as he lay on the
pavement to the right side of his temple.
Trump promises "great transparency"
The US President confirmed that the files are being
“carefully released” and promised the public “great
transparency”.
He also appeared to back up the CIA statement that
some files will be kept back.
He added: “It is my hope to get just about everything
public!”
Soviets described Lee Harvey Oswald
as a "neurotic maniac"
Soviet officials believed JFK’s assassination was
organised by the US right wing.
In a memo to the White House on December 1, 1966,
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, said: “They
seemed convinced that the assassination was not the
deed of one man, but that it arose out of a carefully
planned campaign in which several people played a
part.
“According to our source, Soviet officials claimed that
Lee Harvey Oswald had no connection whatsoever
with the Soviet Union. They described him as a
neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country
and everything else.”
JFK with J. Edgar Hoover (c - standing behind the
President) (Image: REX/Shutterstock)
1% of JFK files will be 'left redacted'
There are some 18,000 previously unreleased
documents relating to the assassination of John F.
Kennedy.
And while 2,800 have been posted immediately to the
National Archives website, the rest will be released on
a rolling basis up until April 2018.
But a CIA spokesman admitted that 1% of the material
will be left redacted.
1% of the JFK documents will remain classified
(Image: Time Life Pictures/Getty Images))
The price on Castro’s head
The JFK files are full of references to the US’s plans
to assassinate Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro.
An FBI memo from 1964 describes a meeting in which
Cuban exiles tried to set a price on the heads of the
leader, Raul Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. “It
was felt that the $150,000.00 to assassinate Castro
plus $5,000 expense money was too high,” the memo
noted.
At a later meeting, they settled on more modest sums
of $100,000 for Fidel, $20,000 for Raul and $20,000
for Che.
Fidel Castro (Image: PA)
The Hollywood blacklist
Some of the files reveal the FBI’s often extraordinary
efforts to combat communism and identify suspected
communists.
Documents include reports from associates of
Hollywood figures, including screenwriter John
Howard Lawson, suspected of being members of the
Communist Party in California.
Tensions between the FBI and CIA
One memo described the tensions between CIA and
FBI that still exist today.
It quotes FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover saying, “more
and more we are telling CIA about our domestic
operations and always to our detriment.
“I want this stopped.”
FBI head J. Edgar Hoover aiming a Thompson
submachine gun (Image: Getty)
Did 'Soviet spy' tip off local British
press about assassination?
An alleged Soviet spy may have tipped off the British
press that JFK would be assassinated 25 minutes
before the fatal shot, it has been suggested.
The anonymous call to the Cambridge News on
November 22, 1963, was revealed in a memo made
public in a release of the JFK files.
The man said: “Call the American Embassy in London
for some big news…”
But no one has ever got to the bottom of whether the
call was actually made, who received it – and
whether anything was done as a result.
The document, apparently a telegram from its
Washington office to contacts in London, was
uncovered by a London solicitor, Michael Eddowes,
who devoted much of his life to investigating the
mysteries surrounding Kennedy’s death.
Mr Eddowes, who died in 1992, told the News in 1981
that he was convinced the document was genuine,
and that the caller was a British-born Soviet agent,
Albert Osborne – who two months before the killing
had been with Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged
with murdering Kennedy.
The name of the reporter who took the call, which Mr
Eddowes said was made from Grimsby, was never
discovered.
The call to the Cambridge News on November 22,
1963, was revealed in a memo made public in a
release of the JFK files (Image: Cambridge News/
BPM MEDIA)

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