Key takeaways from the released JFK files

  • 7 years ago
On Thursday night, President Trump allowed for a release of more than 2,800 files regarding the public assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Here are some of the key takeaways: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover felt that the American public would doubt Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt Hoover also thought that Jack Ruby had ties to the Chicago underworld President Lyndon Johnson thought Kennedy's assassination was retaliation for killing the Vietnamese president The KGB thought that President Johnson might have been behind the assassination The CIA was investigating Oswald possibly meeting the the KGB in Mexico