a memo from then fbi director jay edgar hoover reveals that the day after jfk was killed, the fbi got a call from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill oswald. hoover says the fbi shared that information with the dallas police chief, hoover said in 1963 he was assured adequate protection would be given. however, this was not done. oswald was shot dead while being escorted out of the basement of the dallas police department. and what about those rumored plots to kill fidel castro, who at the time was the leader of cuba? the new jfk files contained a 1975 document, detailing how then attorney general robert kennedy told the fbi that he learned the cia had hired someone to approach the mob about killing castro. another plot to kill castro detailed in the document s would have involved the cia's use of an american lawyer sent to negotiate with castro for the release of the bay of pigs prisoners. the plan was for the lawyer to give castro who would like to skin dive a dive suit contaminated with a disabling fungus and tuberculosis. the am

the memo from jay edgar hoover saying at the time the u.s. must believe oswald acted

the memo from jay edgar hoover saying at the time the u.s. must believe oswald acted alone. >>>

the memo from jay edgar hoover saying at the time the u.s. must believe oswald acted alone. >>> the women lost at sea for five months. surrounded at times with sharjs. >>> the 10-year-old charged with a felony tonight. >>> the iphone x. how to save hundreds on that hefty price. good evening. it is great to have you with us on a very busy friday night and we have new questions about your money tonight. the $300 million contract given to a small company in montana to get the power back on in puerto rico. that company had two full time employees when it landed the deal. whitefish energy deploying crews across the island but two audits of that contract on under way and members of congress are asking for an investigation. how did they really land that deal? jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: the white house today firmly denied the federal government had anything to do with the controversial $300 million contract to restore puerto rico's electricity grid, a contract that went to a montana company with just two employees, but clear political

and i think that -- to me the most interesting thing maybe in all of this is jay edgar hoover's 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 might try to kill lee harvey oswald and he understood with oswald dead, the public would never believe the simple story that oswald was the assassin. and he worried what this would do to american foreign policy and worried what it would do it the confidence of the american public in accepting lbj as the next president. i think this behind the scenes stuff what was really going on. what was going on in terms of assassination itself, we may never know now. >> larry tye, thank you. >> see what happened in court as tiger woods showed up for his dui case. >>> first, this week's cnn hero involving forgotten sports equipment. >> a lot of kids learn the important of work ethic on the sports field. >> set, go! >> there

than anyone since jay edgar hoover -- j. ed goor hoover. ran off thousands and thousands -- edgar hoover. ran off thousands and thousands of years of experience from the f.b.i., spent millions and millions of dollars on programs that didn't work out. apparently got rid of a lot of people that would not say yes to him all time. -- all the time. and also, let's give him credit, he did purge the f.b.i. training materials of anything that offended radical islamists . i would submit there's a reason that why when an f.b.i. agent was femaly sent out to tarn to the -- finally sent out to talk to the older tsarnaev brother, after russia had said twice, hey this guy's been ral radicalized, do they look at where he'd been to see that he had been in areas that were very radical and that he was likely --, no they send out an f.b.i. agent -- likely -- no, they send out an f.b.i. agent to talk him to. and according to director mueller in essence he indicated he was not a terrorist, so that was good for. they but they went the extra mile -- for them. but