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Files on JFK assassination released. JFK assassination: Questions that won't go away. JFK and the rise of conspiracy theories. Image source, Getty Images.

President Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas on 22 November FBI concerned about conspiracy theories. Oswald spoke to a KGB officer. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

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Kennedy's death worried the USSR. RFK's 'Marilyn Monroe suicide plot'. Monroe died at the age of 36 in Los Angeles in Private detectives tried to spy on Kennedy. British paper received an anonymous call. Edgar Hoover dictated that line in a memo he issued on Nov. The memo is one of at least 52 records never previously made public that were included in the release Thursday of about 2, unredacted government documents related to Kennedy's murder in Dallas two days earlier.

President Donald Trump approved withholding an undisclosed number of other documents pending a day national security review. Scholars and other experts have repeatedly said it's unlikely that there's anything groundbreaking in the documents. But as journalists and historians pored through the enormous database of material Thursday night and Friday morning, some interesting nuggets were turning up, among them Hoover's Nov.

Hoover appeared to be particularly concerned that the public would have to be compelled to believe that Oswald was a lone actor — not part of a larger conspiracy. In the Warren Report on Kennedy's assassination, Hoover was firm in stating that he hadn't seen "any scintilla of evidence" suggesting a conspiracy — a sentiment he expressed in other public forums, as well, but not in words as blunt as those he used the day Oswald was killed.

Referring to Nicholas Katzenbach, the deputy attorney general at the time, Hoover dictated: "The thing I am concerned about, and so is Mr.

By the early s, many Americans were skeptical of the commission and its conclusions. In December , the House Select Committee on Assassinations, after two years of work, concluded that although Oswald was the assassin, there was a conspiracy involving a second gunman. The committee relied on the highly questionable acoustical analysis of a dictabelt recording from Dallas police headquarters.

It contained sounds from a police motorcycle in Dealey Plaza whose radio transmitting switch was stuck in the on position. Two acoustics experts said there was a 95 percent certainty that the recording revealed that four shots had been fired at the presidential motorcade. As a result, the House Committee came to the bizarre conclusion that there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll, and that shooter fired at the President, but missed.

The lengthy report, submitted on September 24, , was composed by the seven-member panel who investigated the murder. At just the time that Americans were learning that the government lied to them about Vietnam and Watergate, they now discovered it had lied about aspects of the assassination of President Kennedy. There were now two conspiracies: The conspiracy to assassinate the President and, potentially, an even larger and more insidious conspiracy among powerful figures in government and the media to cover it up.

Before the s most conspiracy theories focused on the Russians or possibly the Cubans. By the s, polls showed that large majorities of Americans now believed their own government was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. In , filmmaker Oliver Stone tapped into these doubts, and added his own paranoid twist, to create the popular movie, JFK.

The film portrayed an elaborate web of conspiracy involving Vice President Lyndon B. The movie makes it seem that First Lady Jackie Kennedy was the only person in Dealey Plaza that day who was not planning to murder the President. The movie ended with a plea for audience members to ask Congress to open all Kennedy assassination records. The plea worked. In , Congress passed the President John F.

Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act that placed all remaining government documents pertaining to the assassination in a special category and loosened the normal classification guidelines. It set a year deadline for the release of all documents. That deadline was October 26, Lee Harvey Oswald holds a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and newspapers in a backyard. This is one of the controversial photos used in the investigation of the assassination of John F.

Kennedy in Credit: Corbis via Getty Images. The legislation led to the most ambitious declassification effort in American history—more than five million documents in total.