The most recent release of declassified Kennedy assassination documents reveals that the CIA was involved. Hardly a surprise. Anyone who has visited Dealey Plaza can see that it was a killing field with multiple avenues of escape. Hard to imagine the Secret Service allowing the president to take such a route unless ordered by higher authority.1 On top of that, Ruth Hyde Paines’ actions before and after the assassination and her testimony are those of a confident agent.
Read MoreThe most recent release of declassified Kennedy assassination documents reveals that the CIA was involved. Hardly a surprise. Anyone who has visited Dealey Plaza can see that it was a killing field with multiple avenues of escape. Hard to imagine the Secret Service allowing the president to take such a route unless ordered by higher authority.1 On top of that, Ruth Hyde Paines’ actions before and after the assassination and her testimony are those of a confident agent.
Read MoreWe’ve covered a lot of territory, especially for a topic intended to be one post, but questions from family and readers keep enlarging the project. As an historian, I can’t stop myself from reading primary documents - and there are a lot of them.
Read MoreAs an historian, I am not particularly drawn to the topic of the assassination of JFK. For me, it is a matter of family history, and for the past week, I have spent hours talking to and texting with family, reading declassified documents, and researching various persons. A relative sparked this recent bout of activity when he and another relative went on an Uncle Loren-themed tour.
Read MoreWhat do yachts have to do with Loren, Marie, and Oswald? A yacht brought together the couple who would meet Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia, a few short years before Oswald would be arrested for assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
Read MoreWhen my father mentioned in the early 1960s that Great Uncle Loren and Aunt Marie went to Russia it sounded highly suspicious to an Army kid like me. As the family component of the occupation forces in Germany in the early 1950s, we lived primed for a Russian invasion.
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