JFK assassination: Case still not closed

The "magic bullet" theory

From JFK Facts:

What we learned in 2024 was that the “lone gunman” theory persists in the mainstream media and Wikipedia despite continuing revelations from the new JFK files that undermine the official story and the emergence of Artificial Intelligence chatbots that offer a more nuanced understanding of November 22.

We saw Robert F. Kennedy make the JFK files a central part of his independent bid for President. We saw Donald Trump narrowly avoid assassination and, when RFK Jr. joined his campaign, we heard his promise to release all the JFK files. 

With Trump’s victory, we saw new possibilities (and perils) to the cause of full JFK disclosure.

All told, JFK Facts published 309 posts in 2024 about all aspects of the JFK story, enlarging readers’ understand of November 22, 1963 and its relevance today.

Case closed?

Not at the CIA. In 2024, we learned that the CIA itself did not believe the lone gunman theory. After President Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, top officials at the CIA station in Miami investigated Cuban exiles known to the agency—not Oswald, not Fidel Castro, not the KGB—for orchestrating the ambush in Dealey Plaza. 

The results of this internal investigation of JFK’s murder have never been made public.

Stephen Jaffe, a former investigator for New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, told the JFK Facts podcast that French president Charles De Gaulle didn’t believe the official story and instructed his intelligence service to assist Garrison’s investigation.

“There’s no new evidence”

In fact, JFK files released in 2024 shows that the CIA lied to the Warren Commission when two top officials testified under oath the Agency had only “minimal” information about Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, before JFK was killed. 

JFK Facts revealed that, on the day JFK was killed, the CIA already had a 181 page dossier on his supposed assassin.

Either top CIA officers were extraordinarily negligent when it came to Kennedy’s killer or they were running an operation to transform Oswald into what he said he was: a “patsy” for others who committed the crime for which he was blamed.

“Somebody would have talked”

More than one somebody did. James Sibert, the veteran FBI agent who attended JFK’s autopsy, told a friend it was obvious the president had been killed by a gunshot from the front....

“There’s no JFK whistleblower”

In fact, a former CIA contract employee told JFK Facts that the Agency maintained a secret archive of JFK assassination records in a Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF) in a CIA office building in Herndon Virginia. The whistleblower spoke out, he said, because he “saw something that disturbed him.”

Asked to comment on the JFK Facts report, the CIA did not deny it....

“Mainstream news organizations couldn’t all be wrong about JFK”

Yet JFK Facts pointed out that the BBC’s coverage amounted to “journalistic malpractice.” The New York Times solicited and then rejected David Talbot’s cogent case against the official theory. And the Times and the Washington Post proved incapable of understanding the late Donald Sutherland and his scene-stealing role in Oliver Stone’s JFK.

“The government was just doing CYA (Cover Your Ass).”

In fact, Chad Nagle’s revelatory series showed that JFK’s assassination was followed by a trail of destruction of relevant evidence by a wide variety of actors atop the federal government. 

Only the willfully naive will regard such a pattern of misconduct as exculpatory. 

Common sense suggests it is incriminating. After all, if the evidence supported the official theory of a motiveless “lone gunman” why would anyone have destroyed it?

See also The Mary Ferrell Foundation and French President Charles de Gaulle on the JFK Assassination