President Trump shared what he surmises could be the truth behind former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Saturday after he ordered the release of thousands of files relating to the government’s investigation.
Trump dove into the theories surrounding JFK’s 1963 assassination during an interview with Outkick founder Clay Travis.
The president said he has long believed that Lee Harvey Oswald, the 24-year-old assassin, killed Kennedy but questioned if he worked alone.
“I do. And I’ve always felt that, but of course, was he helped?” Trump answered when asked if he believed Oswald was responsible.
Oswald denied the claims that he was the assassin numerous times, famously stating that he was “just a patsy” shortly before he was famously shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby during a prisoner transfer at the Dallas police station.
Ever since conspiracy theories surrounding JFK’s assassination and Oswald’s suspicious murder have practically grown out of control.
Many conspiracies center on who could have aided Oswald, including the Soviet Union’s KGB, the Cuban government, a Mafia group, or even the CIA and the United States government.
The Trump administration dumped thousands of pages of documents relating to the assassination investigation, including another wave last Tuesday that included details about Oswald’s marksmanship.
However, experts have continued to warn about placing too much worth on the new files, noting that they will likely do little to help provide a greater understanding of the assassination to the public.
Trump, too, was also let down by the documents and is leaving it up to the readers to make their own “determination.”
“I don’t think there’s any that earth-shattering,” he said.
Much of the information included in the recent files had already been studied.
The documents mention CIA informant and former US Army Captain John Garrett Underhill Jr.’s assertions that a “small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination” that could already be found in a publicly available, decades-old magazine.
Another bit discussed Oswald’s visit to the USSR, where he was observed to be a remarkably poor shot.
Similarly, would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried to take Trump’s life in July, was also said to have had poor aim.
