Todo lo que no te habían contado sobre el asesinato de JFK

The National Archive of the US has declassified around 2,800 documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, coinciding with the deadline established by the JFK Records Act enacted in 1992. In this way, the long-awaited reports finally see the light , although only in part, because Donald Trump has yielded to pressure from the CIA and the FBI and has decided to retain some of the most "sensitive" files for six months.


It was the first murder of a US president in the television era, which contributed to it soon becoming the holy grail of conspiracy theorists (no less than 61% of American society, according to a poll conducted this October by FiveThirtyEight).
No other great mystery in our history has starred in so many books, lectures, articles, documentaries and films as who killed Kennedy. While the Warren Commission concluded that the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone, the House Special Committee on Assassinations said in its 1979 report that Kennedy "was probably killed as a result of a conspiracy," but did not specify from whom .


Although incomplete, the documents published on the official website this Thursday night describe decades of espionage, surveillance, confidences and plots that allow us to learn more about what happened on November 22, 1963 in the Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
Little by little clear data emerges from the thousands of declassified pages, usually typed, often with handwritten and sometimes illegible annotations. It is an arduous task that thousands of journalists, detectives, academics and fans (are available to the public here) are doing to unravel the plot once and for all.

An English newspaper, warned
Perhaps one of the most outstanding documents so far is the one that claims that a journalist from the 'Cambridge Evening News', a newspaper in the United Kingdom, received an anonymous call 25 minutes before the murder of JFK.

 "The caller just told the reporter that he should contact the US embassy in London to receive great news and then he hung up. After learning of Kennedy's death, the journalist informed the Cambridge police and this in turn to MI5. "

The police already knew that they wanted to kill Oswald
Much of the reports reveal the drama and chaos of the days after the president's assassination. Among them, a memorandum written on November 24 by John Edgar Hoover shortly after Jack Rubinstein "Ruby" shot and killed Oswald's television cameras while being transferred from the Police


Headquarters to a local jail. In it the FBI director warned Dallas police that Oswald had been threatened with death: "Last night we received a call in our Dallas office from a man who spoke quietly and said he was a member of a committee organized to kill Oswald. Immediately we notified the chief of police and he assured us that he would receive protection.

This morning we called again the chief of police to warn of an attack against Oswald and again he assured us that they would provide him with adequate protection. However, this was not done. "

Apparently, Ruby, a small-time mafioso dedicated to nightclubs, had done business related to alcoholics that police interfered with, according to an FBI confidant in one of the reports. However, he also says he is surprised that "he really killed Oswlad" instead of hurting him "in the leg, with a caliber 22, to get publicity".

Hoover did not want parallel theories
The director of the CIA did not want doubts to arise in the population: "What worries me the most is what to say so that we can convince the public that Oswald is the real murderer."

Given the amount of conspiracy theories that have been established in American society, it does not seem that his wish has been fulfilled. Also, the documents also reveal their concern about the contacts of the alleged shooter with the Cuban and Soviet embassies in the Mexican capital.

What was Oswald doing in Mexico?

Much has been speculated about Oswald's trip to Mexico in September 1963. There are even those who believe that in those six days there is the key to solving the mystery of why he decided to end the president's life.

 According to a CIA memorandum revealing an intercepted call, Oswald visited the Soviet embassy on the 28th and spoke with the consul, Valery Vladimirovich Kostikov.


Four days later, he called the embassy, ​​identified himself with his name and, in a botched Russian, asked the guard who had answered the phone "if there were news about the telegram sent to Washington". In addition, the agency notes that Kostikov was not just a consul, but a KGB officer and member of Department 13, "a unit