Deciding to withhold 300 documents from the 3,100 classified files related to the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 71-year-old President Donald Trump heeded calls from the FBI and CIA. FBI and CIA officials insist at least 300 files contain information detrimental to U.S. National Security but, more likely, embarrasS FBI and CIA. While the U.S. culture was tuned in to Lorne Greene’s Bonanza or James Arness’ Gunsmoke in 1963, the public watched in horror the nation’s beloved president assassinated on national TV in Dallas. Two days later his alleged Killer, 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot to death Nov. 24, 1963 only one day before the 35th president was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Autopsy results were barely completed before Dallas Nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald in the basement of the Dallas County Jail.
Recently released memos of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reveal that he wanted the public to accept Oswald as Kennedy’s lone assassin. Whether or not that was because he knew otherwise is anyone’s guess. But Hoover clearly expressed his personal desire to make certain the public focused only on Oswald. Hoover’s 1963 memo expressed his worry “is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin,” said Hoover, expressing his desire to “convince” the public of what happened Nov. 22, 1963. Whatever the ambiguity of Hoover’s message, it expressed a desire to “convince” the public of a particular scenario related to JFK’s death. Nothing in the released documents confirms or denies rumors at the time that Kennedy was poised to fire Hoover from his longstanding job at the FBI. Hoover’s 54-year-old statements raise eyebrows.
Much of the newly released documents concern Oswald’s, a former marine sharpshooter who defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, trip to Mexico City seven weeks before the assassination. Meeting with Valeriy Valdimirovich Kostikov, a KGB official, at the Russian embassy in Mexico City Sept. 28, 1963, offers up proof that Oswald was no lone assassin as concluded in the Sept. 24, 1964, 888-page Warren Commission Report, concluding Oswald acted alone. Oswald’s travels to meet, seek instructions and political asylum from Russia and Cuba embassies, rules out that he was a lone nut-job with a vendetta against Kennedy. Newly released CIA records indicate that Oswald called the Russian Embassy asking “anything new concerning the telegram to Washington.” Soviet authorities denied involvement with Oswald, calling him “a neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country and everything else.”
Characterizing Oswald a “neurotic maniac” said, at the very least, that they were very familiar with Oswald, despite denying any affiliation. When you read the tea leaves, it’s clear that Oswald had contacts at the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City. How the Warren Commission could consider Oswald’s meetings at the Russia and Cuban embassies in Mexico City only seven weeks before the assassination inconsequential is mind-blowing. Memos released yesterday from Hoover indicate that he notified the Dallas Police Department about a threat to Oswald. “We at once notified the chief of police and he assured us Oswald would be given sufficient protection,” wrote Hoover, only days before Oswald was shot by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby Nov. 24, 1963 in the basement of Dallas County Jail. Murdering JFK’s assassin while in Dallas police custody speaks volumes about conspiracy.
Most conspiracy theories range from second gunmen, like Phantom shots from the so-called “Grassy Knoll” in Dealey Plaza, a mafia hit job or FBI or CIA plot orchestrated by President Lyndon Johnson. Newly released records point more to an organized cover-up by the FBI and CIA, not necessarily because they ordered Oswald to shoot JFK but how both agencies failed to protect the president. New records indicate that Oswald told contacts in Mexico City he intended to kill President John F. Kennedy. FBI memos indicate that a document confirming Oswald’s intent to kill JFK was ripped up and flushed down a toilet in Mexico City. Hoover expressed his desire in a memo to “convince” the public that Oswald was a lone assassin. After JFK’s death, Soviet officials blamed it on an “ultra-right” coup designed to “stop negotiations with the Soviet Union, attack Cuba and spread war.”
Oswald’s trip to Mexico City and meetings with Russian and Cuban officials showed that he wasn’t, as the Soviet Union said, a “neurotic maniac,” but part of a carefully hatched plot to assassinate the 40th president. Hoover’s comments about “convincing” the public Oswald was a lone assassin became the ultimate conclusion of the Warren Commission, busy, at the time, of suppressing FBI and CIA files related to JFK’s assassination. Blaming JFK’s assassination on an “irresponsible general,” the Soviet Union did everything possible to cover-up their role in the assassination. Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro emphatically denied in 1978 any Cuban role in JFK’s assassination. With all the denials from the FBI, CIA, Russia and Cuba in newly released memos, it’s clear that Oswald’s trip to Russian and Cuban embassies in Mexico City seven weeks before the assassination tells the story.
