A newly released memo from former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reveals his frustration over law enforcement’s failure to keep Lee Harvey Oswald alive long enough to extract his confession to the murder of President John F. Kennedy. The Federal Bureau of Investigation had even warned the Dallas Police Department about a threat on Oswald’s life the agency had received the night before Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald, according to the document, one of some 2,890 previously classified documents surrounding...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 27, 2017 18:16 UTC