director, on Nov. 24, 1963, shortly after Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald as Oswald was moved from one jail to another. Referring to Nicholas Katzenbach, then the deputy attorney general, Mr. Hoover expresses anxiety that the killing of the suspected assassin may spur undesirable doubts among Americans. Mr. Hoover sent a memo to the White House more than three years after the assassination summarizing information in the F.B.I.’s files about how the Soviet government responded to Kennedy’s death. was in possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy. Tell Us What You See The National Archives on Thursday released a final batch of government documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Source: New York Times October 26, 2017 23:34 UTC