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About cover action but not directly related to the oswald story. found it amazing that many americans on the left and right consider their government to be inefficient. one thing both sides of the aisle agree on. yet many americans also at the same time believe that government is so efficient it could have murdered a president and kept it secret for so long. i think theres a dissonance there. in 1998 we got the best information that the u.s. government had apparently on the oswald issue. there a...

Jfk? >> absolutely. absolutely. im sure they did. you know, after all, they had a lot of access to j. edgar hoovers files and there are all sorts of details there, both governmental as well as salacious. and so i am sure that they knew a lot more. in fact, i think donald trump knows a lot more than hes let on. he has access, no doubt, to these documents that are still hidden or at least that hes been given summaries. well have to see what happens on this. but i do think this go back to it, the w...

Survived the killing. he said he believed he was struck by second bullet which fuelled talk of second shooter at dealey plaza. skeptics wondered if there wasnt second shooter, how was oswald able to fire fast enough to hit both kennedy and connolly, given he was seated right in front of the president in the car? despite the intrigue, warren commission report and review by justice department in 1997 agreed that lee harvey oswald acted alone. randi kaye, cnn new york. >> joining me again, tim naft...

It. point to umbrella man, opening and closing umbrella on grassy knoll or beautiful day. signaling shooter or shooting poison dart at president. >> umbrella man came forward to testify to congress. there never was credible evidence tying him to conspiracy to kill the president. >> reporter: many dont see how $20 mail order rifle could bring down most powerful man in the world. must have been a more grandiose scheme, perhaps involving former cuban leader fidel castro who was often connected to k...

Of bullets fired that terrible day. the warrens commission official 888 page report concluded that in all three shots were fire, all from oswalds rifle perched on the sixth floor of the texas school book deposition to her. one bullet struck president kennedy and another known as the magic bullet struck president kennedy and texas governor john connelly, who survived the shooting. >> governor said he believed he was struck by a second bullet which only fueled talk of a second shooter. skeptics wo...

They held back some documents? >> no, actually im not surprised. part of this story is that this is a product of the conspiracy theories of the 90s, when people were saying things like kennedy might have been killed by the mob, cubans, the cia. and the assassination records review board pulled in all possible documents that might shed light on any of those possible theories. as a result they put together 5 million pages. when the act was put together, im sure that the congress didnt expect there...

Release everything? >> its a surprise, certainly, tweets out of the president over the last few days have suggested it was going to be all. in fairness to donald trump, he did say it may not be all. i think fact were getting down to 300 pages does give more weight to what most experts ive talked to, pulitzer prize winning historian here at harvard who is writing a biography of john f. kennedy and his conclusion is big story, not likely to be any major dramatic bombshell to change the basic story...

After his death. just a fraction, president trump delayed releasing some following concerns of national security agencies about making them public. there is a loophole that allows the president this delay. tom is going through the file. what have you found? >> we have a lot of people looking at all of this, theres a lot to look at. just give you a sense of documents, this is just one, 14 pages of handwritten notes. very hard to get through all of this. what weve found is intriguing. there is a r...

Call with reporters, is there any evidence of conspiracy behind the assassination of president john kennedy and they said just cant comment on the records. get the sense as they release the information, they dont even know what is in the files at this point. >> theyll be reviewing them in the months ahead. holding documents back is only going to fuel the fire for some compe conspiracy theorists. randi kaye has some of the theories out there. >> reporter: nearly 53 years to the day since presiden...

Statement in the embassy i want to kill president kennedy. im going to. >> reporter: and cia and mob, angry at kennedy for crackdown on organized crime. theories abound on their involvement and president kennedys vice president, lyndon johnson, could he have ordered a hit on his boss? some say yes. remember it was johnson who set up warren commission to put end to the chatter he was responsible for the assassination. still it continues. many focused on the number of bullets fired that day. warre...