The Soviets feared the killing would be used as a pretext to "stop negotiations with the Soviet Union, attack Cuba, and thereafter spread the war." 'Withheld files'The Warren Commission, which investigated the shooting of the charismatic Kennedy, 46, determined that Oswald, a former Marine sharpshooter, carried out the Kennedy assassination acting alone. Kennedy assassination experts eagerly awaited the opportunity to look at the files but sought to tamp down expectations. Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 but returned to the United States in 1962. Two days after killing Kennedy he was fatally shot by a nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, as he was being transferred from the city jail.//AFP

Source: The Nation Bangkok October 27, 2017 08:37 UTC