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Of the ma fee ya and if do you that its hard to prosecute them later and gerald ford saying no under no circumstances should the u.s. government be involved in assassinating people. there were also evidence of the agents following around an attorney early on named mark lane, who was an early conspiracy theorist, right in the wake of the killing out there saying he believed oswald couldnt have done it alone, he would have been acquitted there had to be other people involved. and one other thing t...

Public. kennedy biographer, boblarry, y were cautiously optimistic what we would learn in the release of these documents and now more than 2800 records released. what stands out as the most significant thing? >> what stands out to me is the crazy rumors and tips that everybody was getting. do we want to believe that the soviet union was in mourning? which is one set of files that the fbi was getting. do we want to believe that oswald was working with the kgb, which is what we might judge from so...

Their case to hold some of these. >> and another theory is retaliation for another assassination. >> yeah, the vietnam president. you have president johnson himself who is entertaining a theory, that is not founded as we learned. president dm enjoyed the support of the u.s., but eventually did not. there was a u.s.-supported coup, and he was taken out of power and it dismayed the u.s., because they were worried about blowback. but johnson had a theory that kennedy was retaliation because of the ...

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...

Did the russians fear they would get the blame? what did l.b.j. have to say? were finding out so much but not everything right now. were going to talk the a historian reviewing the documents in just a moment. first, deidra bolton on what were learning now. deidra? >> if you went to the national archives website last evening, you could have seen the files. theres a range of information. president trump did decide to keep some of these records classified for possible release later. but heres some ...

Conspiracy because he wants to, what? make sure theres not world war iii? if everyone starts thinking the russians were involved in the plot, assassinates the president of the united states, they want to go to war. >> that may be why the national security community is still concerned with the release of these documents. >> the other thing that the warren commission, the one that lbj put on because people thought he had done it, they didnt have any documents dont make these and documents when the...

Table now. the secret service intelligent agencies knew he wanted to release the documents. >> it was required by the law in 1992. october 26, 2017, this will all be released from and unless theres a security concern, which there was, and president trump he did it. >> i feel the secret service had almost a decade to get their act together to figure out the security to deal with it. i applaud the president for releasing these documents because i think the american people deserve to know what happ...

Here on "early start." >> good morning. 30 minutes past the hour. and weve got two big stories for you this morning. first, plenty of intrigue following the late night release of the jfk files by the trump administration. was lee harvey oswald acting as an agent of the cia? in a stunner, theres no answer this morning. while the white house did release over 2800 records, roughly 300 others were kept classified because of the national security concerns. more on that in a moment. first some highl...

We see in a memo, though we knew about these contacts in mexico city, theres suspicions all over, including from lbj, who is he connected to? does this have something to do with south vietnam. but i think its going to be unsatisfying for one looking for a smoking gun zblo what do you think the intelligence agencies are objecting to in releasing these documents? >> some of this, i suspect is to compromise activities they did, including some of what were talking about now. there might be operation...

American history, when you have a significant faction expressing discontent as you have here, eventually that voice finds expression. sooner or later somehow it finds expression, whether anticipate-slavery wigs and democrats or the southern republicans ostracized from fdr, lbj and eventually became republicans. somehow the fissure we are seeing will find a voice in the republican party. >> ron, david, thank you. >> what happened in the hours leading up to the deadly ambush in niger that left fou...