President Trump shared what he surmises might be the reality behind former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Saturday after he ordered the discharge of hundreds of information referring to the federal government’s investigation.
Trump dove into the theories surrounding JFK’s 1963 assassination throughout an interview with Outkick founder Clay Travis.
The president mentioned he has lengthy believed that Lee Harvey Oswald, the 24-year-old murderer, killed Kennedy however questioned if he labored alone.
“I do. And I’ve always felt that, but of course, was he helped?” Trump answered when requested if he believed Oswald was accountable.
Oswald denied the claims that he was the murderer quite a few occasions, famously stating that he was “just a patsy” shortly earlier than he was famously shot and killed by nightclub proprietor Jack Ruby throughout a prisoner switch on the Dallas police station.
Ever since conspiracy theories surrounding JFK’s assassination and Oswald’s suspicious homicide have virtually grown uncontrolled.
Many conspiracies heart on who might have aided Oswald, together with the Soviet Union’s KGB, the Cuban authorities, a Mafia group, and even the CIA and the US authorities.
The Trump administration dumped hundreds of pages of paperwork referring to the assassination investigation, together with one other wave final Tuesday that included particulars about Oswald’s marksmanship.
Nevertheless, consultants have continued to warn about putting an excessive amount of price on the brand new information, noting that they may doubtless do little to assist present a larger understanding of the assassination to the general public.
Trump, too, was additionally let down by the paperwork and is leaving it as much as the readers to make their very own “determination.”
“I don’t think there’s any that earth-shattering,” he mentioned.
A lot of the data included within the current information had already been studied.
The paperwork point out CIA informant and former US Military Captain John Garrett Underhill Jr.’s assertions {that a} “small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination” that would already be present in a publicly accessible, decades-old journal.
One other bit mentioned Oswald’s go to to the USSR, the place he was noticed to be a remarkably poor shot.
Equally, would-be murderer Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried to take Trump’s life in July, was additionally mentioned to have had poor intention.
