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This discussion of the -- of rubys killing of lee harvey oswald includes hoover writing that, you know, hes a hudlum and also a reputed homosexual. i didnt realize he was gay. that doesnt surprise me. hoover saw homosexuals everywhere. and sometimes wasnt unhappy about that, im sure. >> because the word is that he was as well. so, philip, listen -- >> well. >> yeah. the president rolled this out like a cliffhanger. it would be interesting to know -- to know what he knew and what details he knew....

Why cant we see them more than 50 years after the assassination? why is president trump going back on his pledge to release everything? tom foreman has been diving into the jfk files for us. hes here now with all the latest details. tom, hello to you. you have been digging through all these files. what have you uncovered so far? >> well, ive uncovered a terrific team of people here helping me dig because i couldnt possibly do it. look at this, look at this, don, this is just one of these files, ...

We really saw only a tiny fraction of them tonight. and not the most important ones. but i think theyre going to show that, indeed, the u.s. government, the cia and fbi, in particular, had a lot of information before the assassination to suggest this man, lee harvey oswald, was a danger. i agree. theres a comparison to be made between the kennedy assassination and 9/11. the government had a lot of information to suggest something terrible was about to happen but bungled that information and the ...

Material in here about the cias role in the jfk story. theyre trying to keep that out of public view. >> tom, let me ask you about another interesting finding that we found in these documents as you were going through. tell us about this apparent death threat called -- that was called in prior to oswalds murder. >> this is the first time weve ever had a record that says there was a direct call to the fbi. this was from j. edgar hoover saying last night we received a call in our dallas office fro...

Conspiracy theories of their own. namely, that johnson himself was behind kennedys death. the source saying ussr believed there was well-organized conspiracy on the part of the ultra right in the united states to affect a cou approximate. they received a direct warning before oswalds own murder before a jail transfer. a day before oswald was killed, hoover says the fbi office in dallas received a phone call from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to...

Assassination of john f. kennedy, director of the fbi j. edgar hoover wanted to steer people away from conspiracy theories. hoover said "the thing im concerned about and so is deputy attorney general, having something issued so we can convince the public that oswald is the real assassin." he was referring to lee harvey oswald, the shooter. the records reveal that hoover reported "last night we received a call from the dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of...

Voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill oswald and shared that information with the dallas police chief who assured us adequate protection would be given. however, this was not done. oswalds killer, jack ruby, maintained he acted alone and denied making the call. and more may be coming. a white house official telling cnn the president was unhappy with the level of redactions requested by intelligence agencies saying they were not meeting the spirit of the law. trump wri...

Getting extraordinary reports every five minutes i think probably getting a report that never quite checked out. and i think that -- to me the most interesting thing maybe in all of this is jay edgar hoovers reaction after jack ruby was killed, which was what he seemed more worried about than getting to the bottom of who actually the assassin was, was what the reaction of the american public was going to be. and he worried that the dallas police had ignored his warnings to them that somebody mig...

>> i was going to say one thing, those released were files released before and redactions were taken out. many of the files released for first time were i will lelgible, why are they holding for 54 years illledgible documents, its maddening. >> do you have a headline out of what we saw? >> my expectations are low eaan lower after seeing them. this is a nothing burger. the memo about hoover, this was the mindset inside the fbi. >> was he saying we have to convince them of something thats not true...

Salacious tidbits in these documents involving trippers and alleged sex parties. one fbi files has information on the bureaus attempt to locate a stripper named kitty that is reported by another dallas dallas stripper that is known to be associated with jack ruby. and agents asked a high priced hollywood call girl about her participation in sex parties involving then senator john kennedy, his brother-in-law, peter lawford, frank sinatra and sammy davis jr. she told them that she had no knowledge...