What the JFK documents reveal about assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

The March 18, 2025, dump of the JFK assassination documents has been different bust. We larn that they had remained unreleased to screen up the CIA’s extended undercover operations astatine location and abroad. Relatively fewer of the files woody with the JFK assassination itself.

We should not person expected a smoking weapon anyway. Underreported has been the information that the JFK documents person agelong been open to researchers in NARA’s adjacent Maryland facility. How overmuch clip person conspiracists spent there, I wonder?

With anticipation of a decisive smoking weapon having expired, it is clip to revisit the millions of words of grounds contained in the Warren Report of 1964 and its consequent releases and to information collections organized by assassination enthusiasts. It is clip to springiness up connected flimsy tales of whispered conversations, conspiratorial meetings, expected deathbed confessions and the similar to reply 3 questions:

The Dallas Police Department mug shots of Lee Harvey Oswald pursuing his apprehension successful the John F. Kennedy assassination. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First, did Oswald have the skill, resources, motive and slayer instinct to termination JFK? In my book, "The Oswalds," I reply this question successful a resounding affirmative. I notation the scholar to my arguments.

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Second question: Was Oswald’s crouching astatine the sixth-floor model connected Nov. 22, 1963, the effect of a coordinated planned assassination oregon of accidental and coincidence?

Third, was Jack Ruby’s sidesplitting of Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police office the merchandise of coincidental events oregon of planned and coordinated  efforts to remove Oswald from the scene?

If Oswald were guided by a sinister unit inimical to JFK oregon the United States (Cuba, USSR, the Mafia oregon CIA?), helium would person to beryllium fixed his marching orders astatine immoderate point. In the months and weeks starring up to Nov. 22, Oswald was successful New Orleans, wherever helium recruited connected thoroughfare corners for Castro. He netted zero recruits and a nighttime successful jail.  

Next, we find him connected a autobus to Mexico City successful pursuit of a Cuban transit visa. Despite his claims successful an earlier missive to the Soviet Washington embassy, Oswald had nary tendency to instrumentality to the USSR. His exertion for a USSR visa was simply a means to a caller beingness successful Cuba. Surely Cuba would beryllium indebted to him for his enactment successful New Orleans.

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In Mexico City, Oswald contacted the Cuban and Soviet embassies, 2 of the suspected contractors of the Dallas assassination. According to assorted conspiracy theories, the Cuban and Soviet embassies were the conduits of Oswald’s assassination orders, astir apt Mexico. 

In Mexico City, helium made 1 sojourn and placed a wiretapped telephone telephone to the Soviet embassy. (All entrants to the Soviet installation were photographed with a hidden camera.) His sojourn to the Cuban embassy reverted to a shouting lucifer erstwhile the consular authoritative denied his transit visa. The crestfallen Oswald returned by autobus to Dallas. Within weeks helium would beryllium arrested successful Dallas connected charges of sidesplitting the president.

Robert F. Kennedy places a angiosperm adjacent the eternal occurrence connected the sedate of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, connected the archetypal day of the assassination. (Getty Images)

If Oswald shot JFK connected instructions and orders of Cuba and/or the USSR, it remains unclear what relation their instructions to Oswald could person played. Oswald already had tested his mail-order firearm successful his constrictive miss of Gen. Edwin Walker successful his Dallas home. When Oswald was successful Mexico City, determination was nary known program for JFK to beryllium successful Dallas. 

Any flight by Oswald from the aboriginal transgression country would person been (by Oswald’s practice) by metropolis bus, not successful a getaway conveyance supplied by his puppet masters. It was not until the evening earlier the assassination that JFK’s way was adjacent known. (Oswald got his publication depository occupation from a neighbor, again good earlier immoderate planned travel by JFK to Texas.)

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Oswald carried retired a low-tech assassination that did not necessitate the assistance of Cuba oregon the USSR. Doing the assassination "in his way" is simply a striking illustration of however the "loner" Oswald operated. It also shows Oswald as a classical "grass is greener connected the different broadside of the fence" benignant of guy.

Texas and Minsk had been disappointing. No 1 recognized his genius. It was clip to determination connected and the 1 spot that would invited him was Castro’s Cuba, truthful thought Oswald. Oswald remained intent connected Cuba adjacent aft his disappointment successful Mexico City. He continued to badger the USSR Washington embassy for his visa, that is until helium learned that the president would walk nether his window.

Texas Rangers escort accused Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald into a Dallas constabulary facility. (Getty Images)

Jack Ruby led the beingness of a insignificant Mafia figure. He had fewer friends, and a atrocious temper. According to the assorted conspiracy theories, Ruby was tapped by assassination puppeteers (the Mafia?), to eliminate Oswald before helium could spill the beans (on whom?). Ruby was known to the Dallas police, which would person fixed him a slim opening to kill Oswald.

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If Ruby was portion of a (Mafia) program to silence Oswald, the program had a glaring flaw. Oswald had been interrogated nonstop successful constabulary headquarter since precocious day of Nov. 22. There was nary mode for the puppet masters to cognize however long Oswald would clasp retired nether aggravated questioning. Despite his telephone for a lawyer, helium had nary ineligible advice. 

Dallas constabulary planned Oswald’s transportation to the metropolis jailhouse meticulously with officers stationed successful each nook and cranny, but they made a fatal mistake. They had to use the ramp into basement parking to admit the armored car that would take Oswald to the metropolis jail. The passerby Ruby simply walked down the ramp successful clip to occurrence into Oswald’s stomach.

Jack Ruby during his proceedings successful Texas. His motive was that helium could not let Oswald "get distant with it."  (Shel Hershorn/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

With the execution of Oswald by Ruby, could the puppet masters respire easily? Oswald was gone, but Ruby, whose decease condemnation was commuted to life, would unrecorded different 5 years to dice of earthy causes and nary hint of a conspiracy. Ruby did not alteration his communicative passim this period. His motive (declared upon receiving connection that Oswald had died) was that helium could not let Oswald "get distant with it." And helium needed to amusement that "Jews person guts." He besides testified that helium wanted to spare Jackie the trauma of an Oswald trial.

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So, person we reached a dormant end? Will a beardown bulk proceed to judge that the president of the United States was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald, a troubled misfit successful a immense conspiracy guided by home oregon overseas enemies? 

The public’s rejection of the 1964 Warren Report’s decision that Oswald acted alone ushered successful an epoch of distrust successful authorities which continues to flourish and adjacent intensify to the detriment of our nation. Let’s yet accidental the truth: Oswald did it and did it alone.

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