FRESH CONSPIRACY?
JFK files reveal FBI informant claimed cop shot by Oswald was president’s REAL assassin
THE FBI was passed information suggesting a US cop was JFK’s real assassin, according to recently released files, feeding fears of further conspiracy theories.
The internal document dated five months after the US president’s death details intelligence received from an informant.
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It claims officer JD Tippit – who was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald around 45 minutes after Kennedy’s assassination – was the real trigger man, not Oswald.
Oswald was fingered for the killing but was himself shot dead by mafia-linked nightclub owner Jack Ruby while in police custody.
But the tip-off in the document suggests Tippit and Oswald were seen together in one of Ruby’s bars just one week before the assassination, linking all three men.
And another file claims sources close to the Soviet KGB told US spies the Russians believed Oswald was not a lone gunman.
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Archive video from buildup to and assassination of US President John F. Kennedy - more commonly known as JFK
Instead, the documents suggest the Kremlin thought the assassination was the work of “an organised group” on the American “ultra-right”.
The aim, they believed, was to stage a “coup” against Kennedy, by elements who thought he was too soft on the Communists, the document claims.
The files could be enough to trigger yet another conspiracy theory surrounding the infamous assassination.
Some 2,800 records relating to the killing of President John F. Kennedy were released today.
Another file claims a British newspaper received a mysterious phone call warning them something “big” was going to happen to the US – 25 minute before JFK was shot.
And according to another, Oswald met with a KGB agent responsible for assassinations around two months before the killing.
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Video examines theory that Russia's KGB had a role in assassination of JFK
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