Lee Harvey Oswald 
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
4-26-18
Trump delays release of some JFK assassination files until 2021, bowing to national security concerns
In a White House memo, Trump said that the nation’s intelligence community persuaded him to keep some documents secret because their exposure could harm “identifiable national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns.”
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SOURCE: The Weekly Standard
12-12-17
Much Ado About Nothing (Re: JFK Conspiracy Theories)
by Max Holland
Almost two-thirds of Americans believe there was a wider conspiracy to kill Jack Kennedy. They're wrong.
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SOURCE: Crosscut
11-20-17
The JFK assassination files lead back to Seattle
A University of Washington professor says that one of the doctors who worked on JFK’s body admitted that one shot was from the front not behind him. But that's not what the doctor told Gerald Posner.
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SOURCE: History channel
10-30-17
Why the Public Stopped Believing the Government about JFK’s Murder
by Steven M. Gillon
It’s likely that we will never know with any certainty why Oswald killed JFK, but we should have been informed that he did it in part to win favor with Cuba and the USSR.
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SOURCE: AP
11-4-17
JFK files say rumors of CIA link to Oswald ‘unfounded’
A 1975 CIA memo says a thorough search of agency records in and outside the United States was conducted to determine whether Oswald had been used by the agency or connected with it in "any conceivable way." The memo said the search came up empty.
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SOURCE: jfkfiles.blogspot.com
10-28-17
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
by Dale K. Myers
The latest JFK assassination files leave the media scrambling for something - anything - newsworthy.
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SOURCE: NBC News
10-29-17
The One Thing All Americans Agree On: JFK Conspiracy
The latest numbers from Gallup, from a 2013 survey taken to mark the 50th anniversary of the event, showed 61% of Americans believed the assassination was a conspiracy, while 30% believed Oswald acted alone.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
10-26-17
Good History Takes Time, So Be Patient With the New JFK Documents
There are unlikely to be any bombshells, and it’ll be months or years before historians can draw conclusions from the new files.
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SOURCE: WaPo
10-26-17
Trump delays release of some JFK assassination documents, bowing to national security concerns
The CIA has until March to say why certain documents need to be withheld.
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SOURCE: Politico
10-26-17
How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
The government is releasing thousands of long-secret files on Kennedy’s murder. Here are some tips for making sense of all the code names, redactions and confusing jargon.
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SOURCE: New York Post
10-21-17
What’s inside the secret JFK assassination files?
Secret government documents to be released this week likely contain new details about what the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before he murdered President John F. Kennedy, assassination experts say.
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SOURCE: Salon
9-10-17
Missing from the new JFK files: Batch of CIA records on Lee Harvey Oswald
The disappearing file feeds suspicions about the agency and the accused assassin.
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SOURCE: New Historian
10-21-15
Kennedy Assassin Photo Verified
By performing a 3-D stability analysis on the ‘Lee Harvey Oswald in the Backyard Photo’, the Dartmouth University scientists claim they have proven its legitimacy.
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11-25-13
Why Did Jack Ruby Kill Lee Harvey Oswald?
by Bruce Chadwick
"Witness to the World" asks.
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11-22-13
Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union [INTERVIEW]
by David Austin Walsh
Journalist Peter Savodnik discusses his new book, "The Interloper."
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SOURCE: National Review
11-20-13
Still Blaming Conservatives for Lee Harvey Oswald
by Daniel Pipes
Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marxist, so why does Dallas's conservative culture still get blamed for JFK's assassination?
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SOURCE: NBC News
11-19-13
A treasured letter from Jackie Kennedy
Marie Tippit, whose husband J.D. Tippit was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, received a condolence letter from Jackie Kennedy.
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SOURCE: BBC News
11-18-13
Minsk's fond memories of Lee Harvey Oswald
Surprisingly, Oswald still has friends in the Belorussian capital.
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SOURCE: CBS News
11-20-13
Jack Ruby files revealed for first time in nearly 50 years
"CBS This Morning" combs through the Dallas County DA's files on Jack Ruby from his 1964 trial.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11-17-13
The City With a Death Wish in Its Eye
by James McAuley
Dallas's role in Kennedy's murder.
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