Thousands of new documents related to the Kennedy assassination declassified

US National Archives published thousands of documents related to the assassination of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy. Recently, incumbent President Joe Biden signed an executive order authorizing the publication of these documents, while the head of state kept hundreds of other documents classified for another year. Voice of America.

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The publication of about 13 new documents is unlikely to lead to sensational discoveries or change the commission's conclusions about the Kennedy assassination. However, the new batch of documents will be of interest to historians studying the events surrounding the assassination.

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Kennedy was shot and killed as his motorcade drove through Dallas on November 22, 1963. He was 46 years old. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine and communist activist who lived in the Soviet Union for several years, was blamed for the murder.

The authorship of many of the documents published on Thursday, December 15, belongs to the CIA. Among them are several documents devoted to Oswald’s movements and contacts. Other documents are devoted to requests from the commission investigating the murder.

Documents show that the US government opened a file on Oswald in December 1960 - almost three years before Kennedy was assassinated. The reason for this was his unsuccessful attempt to become a defector to the USSR in 1959.

The document, dated December 1963, describes how CIA agents in Mexico City "intercepted a phone call" from Oswald to the Soviet embassy, ​​during which he "used his real name" and spoke "in broken Russian." It follows from the documents that Oswald hoped to get to the Soviet Union through Cuba and wanted to get a visa.

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However, the documents do not shed any light on the underlying mystery of the Kennedy assassination. Until now, theories periodically appear that Oswald had accomplices.

Authors of thousands of books, articles, television programs, and films have floated the idea that Kennedy's assassination was the result of a carefully planned conspiracy. No one, however, provided conclusive evidence that Oswald had accomplices. Suspicion was aroused by the fact that two days after Kennedy's assassination, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald himself.

Initially, there were suspicions that Oswald was somehow connected with his killer Ruby. However, a recently published memo dated September 1964 states that "the CIA has no hint that Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald knew each other, were accomplices or could be connected in any way."

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