JFK files: Trump holds back information on Oswald's meeting with Russians and Cubans
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JFK files: Trump holds back information on Oswald's meeting with Russians and Cubans

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Files that could have shone further light on JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s overseas meetings with Cubans and Russians just months before he killed the President were not included in the information dump ordered by Donald Trump. In addition to files relating to Oswald’s six-day trip to Mexico, information about Dallas businessman Gordon McClendon, a radio station owner who is said to have spoken to Jack Ruby, shortly before he shot and killed Oswald two days after John F Kennedy’s assassination, was not made public. I have no choice – today – but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation’s security.” Among the documents that were released are those that capture the frantic mood of the country in the days after the assassination of the 46-year-old president, as officials sought to discover whether Oswald was working alone or as part of a broader conspiracy. A memo believed to have been dictated by FBI Director J Edgar Hoover on 24 November 1963, two days after the assassination and the day that Oswald was himself shot and killed, started: “There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead.” Later, Hoover recognised that many would not believe that Oswald had acted alone – something that has proved true.

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