oswald is arrested.swald may be a suspect in the assassination. who is he? >> lee oswald of dallas, a former marine, spent too many in russia and at one time had applied for soviet citizenship. >> the description of the suspect we had was similar to the description we had and the man we were looking for as the assassin but at that time we had not been able to connect the two in any way. >> now, there lab great deal of confusion. mr. oswald is put through the door. i don't know if you saw him. oswald lives at 1026 north meke mekeli. he's an employee of the book binding store. >> mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in an ambulance from the hospital to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> lyndon johnson had ordered that the body be brought immediately to air force i, so there was a little tug of war. it almost shook the crucifix off the top of the coffin as they were trying to get that coffin out of the hospital. >> vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an

oswald spoken in broken russia. and fbi documenting a separate conversation about oswald and two cubans. one said oswald must have been a good shot. a cuban intelligence officer said, oh, he was quite good. when asked why he said that, "i knew him". >> they had a lot of information to suggest that this man, lee harvey oswald, was a danger. >> another cliffhanger, whether oswald worked for the cia. richard helms, deputy cia director under kennedy, was asked if lee harvey on oswald was a cia agent where the document suddenly ends without an answer. even linden b. johnson is said to have entertained another theory to explain the assassination. according to helms, johnson claimed he was killed as payback for the assassination of vietnam's president and this was just justice. even though helms said there was no evidence of this claim in agency records. but a memo from fbi director j. edgar hoover to the white house three years after kennedy was killed details reaction inside the soviet union, including conspiracy theorie

claiming to know oswald. he was intercepted speaking to a kgb officer in broken russian. >> a senior administration official say last minute request resulted in what they call a messy process leading up to the release of the kennedy files. the white house did not receive all of the requests until yesterday that left aides scrambli scrambling. >> one official says he was unhappy with the level of redactions. so we could get more information in h six months. including the potential answer to that cliff-hanger about whether oswald was in fact a cia agent. >>> elsewhere, some serious new ethical questions facing the president and justice department this morning after it emerged the president personally influenced the decision to lift the gag order on an under cover informant. all this circling back to who else? hillary clinton. the informant played a critical role in the uranium industry while clinton was secretary of state. >> last week, senate judiciary chairman called on them to lift the gag order. so that jus

they had an expensive file on oswald. so when he shows up in mexico city at the mexican embassy they already knew who oswald was back at headquarters, but the agents in the field did not. so he goes there and encounters a kgb agent. he was late for lunch, so he passed him onto oleg. but he thought oswald was completely just out of touch. he says, no, you have to go through the process, a four-month process to get your visa in order. and that in turn frustrated oswald who lied to the cubans and said everything was good to go, that he'd gotten everything approved. the only problem was the cubans double-checked with the russians and found it was a smoke screen. he indeed did not get approved. >> oh, my goodness. >> when oswald went back a second time, this time the person he ends up encountering is actually cosikav's boss. he sits him down and this time oswald brandishes a pistol, the same pistol he's later accused of officer jd tippet with in dallas. and they took the pistol away from him and they said, wait a minute, calm

but i think that some form of conspiracy aiding abetting oswald or putting oswald up as a front that may be possible what is particularly sensitive and what many people hope to you more about from these releases is a visit that oswald made to mexico city in two in september one thousand nine hundred sixty three just two months to full of the the assassination and there is genuine mystery about that such mysteries that members of the warren commission which came up with the initial members of the start of the warren commission which came up with the initial no conspiracy learned gunman theory have said that they felt betrayed by the fact that the. cia withheld from the commission the information that they were at that very time trying the us was trying to kill field cradle castra which page one into theorizing we haven't got time for it to save me but theorizing on the one hand that whole oswald may in some way have been true they may be of an attempt to get him to assassinate fidel castro and on the other hand that castro himself may have been trying to tell the united states don't t

for decades conspiracy theories questioned whether lee harvey oswald acted alone. in a newly released memo, hoover expressed concerns americans would not believe he was the only shooter. the declassified documents shedding light on oswald's contacts with russia and cuba. there was a call intercepted at the russian embassy in phemexic. the fbi documenting a separate conversation between two cubans, and one said oswald must have been a good shot, and another saying he was quite good, and asked why he said that, the officer said i knew him. >> had a lot of information before the assassination to suggest that this man, oswald, was a danger. >> another suspenseful cliff-hanger, whether oswald worked for the cia. the deputy cia director under kennedy was asked whether oswald was an agent before the document suddenly ends without an answer. even kennedy's successor, johnson. johnson claimed kennedy was killed for pay back for the assassination of vietnam's president, and this was justice, and even though helm said there was no evidence of this claim in records, but a memo

government had apparently on the oswald issue.ut and some leads that may not lead anywhere but worth looking at. what i believe this release is about though is that era. that era of secrecy, of covert action. that's what we'll see more details of. and what's being held back, i believe, are materials regarding foreign government assistance to us, materials about code breaking, materials regarding sources that are not directly related to what happened in dallas but people run by the cia elsewhere who might have provided detail or two about oswald's time in russia or japan. those are the details. >> you were talking before will cia cover operations in kongo with lumumba, in dominican republic and elsewhere, might be information there. >> no doubt about it. example, still secret maybe. haven't been through all the documents. secret was the name of the cia man who brought the poison to kongo to kill patrice lumumba, the leader. they didn't kill him but cia person brought poison to kill him. name of the cia person was secret. cia will t

lee harvey oswald was quickly arrested. and just as quickly killed by a local nightclub owner, jack ruby. >> lee oswald has been shot. >> reporter: the mystery deepened. was there a conspiracy to kill the president? most americans today believe that there was. despite the fact the warren commission concluded in 1965 oswald acted alone. though in 1979 a house select committee concluded kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. over the years, there have been dozens of books written, many movies made, too. the best known of them, oliver stone's "jfk." >> once you conclude the magic bullet could not create all seven of those wounds, you have to conclude that there was a fourth shot and a second rifle. >> reporter: a good film, it won two oscars. but good history? >> there is no settled idea about who killed john kennedy and why and perhaps with what help, and what that means, i think, is that there's never going to be an explanation that satisfies everyone. >> reporter: we do know this, that day marked the

did lee harvey oswald have a cia correction? two intre preen ners are building a travel. >> the first product came from a -- i was at the airport and all of my clothes just spilled out everywhere and she called me to complain. and she started being like why isn't there a brand that makes high quality product that's not going to break and that doesn't cost more than the trip i'm talking it on. we surveyed hundreds of people who potentially be our customers and that really drove the design. the suitcase has a hard shell, really durable zippers, perfect wheels. and the phone charger and the carry on. >> we've had so many failures with the way we've underanticipated our growth potential and we're completely out of inventory. le early on we didn't have a totally dialed interview process. the we ended up bringing a few people on the team who weren't the right fit. >> we have built something and are now responsible for all of these people's livelihoods. that kind of responsibility is really overwhelming at times but also what inspires

were in concert and ruby made it possible for oswald to commit the murd ir and killed oswald to covers. this is the first time we knew the fbi was speaking to the idea that they were directly called and told that oswald would likely be killed or could be killed by a group. >> jefferson, how do you read that? should we take from this that oswald wasn't adequately protected? >> absolutely. the behavior of the dallas police was atrocious in bringing that man out at that time and ruby penetrated this security perimeter very easily, perhaps with help from dallas police, so they had a lot to be embarrassed about and this document just shows that, you know, they were well warned ahead of time. >> tom, there was this back and forth with an alleged cuban intelligence officer who claimed to have known oswald? >> yeah. this was an intercepted conversation between two cuban intelligence officers. one of them said to the other one, that oswald must have been a good shot and the other one replied oh, he was quite good and asked how he knew this, he says here, i knew him. all of this continues to fe

but i think that some form of conspiracy aiding abetting oswald or putting oswald up as a front that may be possible what is particularly sensitive and what many people hope to hear more about from these releases is a visit that oswald made to mexico city in two in september one thousand nine hundred sixty three just two months to full of the the assassination and there is genuine mystery about that such mysteries that members of the warren commission which came up with the initial members of the start of the warren commission which came up with the initial no conspiracy learned gunman theory have said that they felt betrayed by the fact that the. cia withheld from the commission the information that they were at that very time trying the us was trying to kill field cradle castro which page one into theorizing we haven't got time for the saving but theorizing on the one hand that whole oswald may in some way have been they may be of an attempt to get him to assassinate fidel castro and on the other hand that castro himself may have been trying to tell the united states don't try to k

lee harvey oswald was blamed for killing. nine hundred sixty three the president as most people know had been. oswald was arrested but was himself killed two days later while under police escort historians discussed his motives on his past including an interesting experience. retracing his steps. where might you find the most drama and lee harvey oswald's life story before the events of november nine hundred sixty three well it could be his short but eventful stay in this city four years before he is president kennedy. most of the places which form part of extraordinary trip still exist like the. railway station where he arrived from helsinki in finland his last stop in a western country before reaching the u.s.s.r. . stayed right here at the hotel berlin which is now the savoy it's just a few minutes walk from. the former k.g.b. headquarters. his visa meant that he only had six days to get a soviet citizenship so he wasted no time in trying to secure his hammer and sickle passport which began with this letter i believe harve

kennedy is who was lee harvey oswald the government tells us that oswald was nothing more than an angry lho not with no clear motive for the crime apart from being an angry lone nut with marxist sympathies but many believe lee oz lee oswald was a lot more complicated and connected than the us government would have us believe including author judyth vary baker whose book manley how i came to know love and lose lee harvey oswald revealed her love affair with oswald the summer before that fateful day in november one nine hundred sixty three miss baker joined us earlier to help us set light on some of the mystery surrounding. i think for example they'd make him out to be alone wolf alone or this is his she's in photographs all time with all kinds of people have their arms around him he's smiling he has friends who are we're all afraid when he you know whisper like that and i will be giving lectures you know we're going to have or i found at this conference it is growing like crazy because we only allow people there who speak the truth about you can use as a nation we don't debate anymore wh

ilya patrolling court t tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald in moscow. ok let's go back to our breaking news this hour because twitter has blocked order to dismiss from accounts of this channel we can get the details now from downhole can see he's back in the studio dan just bring us up to date then on what's being said what it means and also there's an awful lot of background to this there is quite a bit of background it's very much multilayered story very much a developing story as well of course the breaking news we have over the last hour or so is that twitter has officially confirmed by advertising from the platforms including sputnik news agency r.t. american german. russian arabic across the whole network on their social media now ironically enough they do begin their statement saying at twitter we believe in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power they do go on to say though they want to ensure people feel safe when they use the site and that's why the taking the decision to stop us advertising now this is very much ironically a diff

ilya patrolling court t tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald and moscow. british filmmaker is have revived attempts to find any trace of russia or interfering in the outcome of last year's brecht referendum we can get more details now from our correspondent. is this a bit strange because what exactly could they be looking for given that this vote was well over a year ago. well andrew really nothing new here we've seen this before this anti russia hype continues and this witch hunt now spreading its wings across the u.k. following the very brave but few trial example of this having already happened in the u.s. following unfavorable outcomes of an election result we here in london we have seen the committee the digital cultural media and sports select committee in the house of commons sent a letter to facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg asking him to provide all sorts of details when it comes to facebook ads and russia linked account accounts in connection to not just the breaths that referendum but also the last general elections in the u.k. so this is seen as

tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald and moscow. today president donald trump officially declared the opioid epidemic and national public health emergency. families communities and citizens or groups or country are currently dealing with the worst drug crisis in american history and even if you really think about it world history however critics say this move falls short of recommendations he received from his commission the declaration will reportedly last for ninety days but will not provide additional funds needed to fight the crisis that's according to the department of health and human services says the public health emergency fund currently has a balance of just fifty seven thousand dollars since one thousand nine hundred nine the nationwide opioid problem has quadrupled the number of overdose deaths resulting from prescription painkillers and heroin but c.d.c. reports overdoses claim more than ninety lives a day and that's not all pharmaceutical companies are raking in a record profits to the tune of billions of dollars a yea

lee harvey oswald had ties to organized crime.illed oswald, jack ruby, had ties to organized crime. theories are out there, i understand where they come from, i haven't seen credible to suggest they are really true. host: let's hear from john in democrat's line. caller: yes, hello, how are you? have a copy of the dallas in that ews and article, the gun experts found was supposed to be used by oswald and they named it mauser, these guys were gun experts, they would know the mauser,ce in the german and that is why i believe in the theory, along with 75 other -- 35% of people in the don't believe ho oswald acted alone. when they find a gun that didn't match with oswald had, they had to change the story. bviously something else is going on here. you can get a copy of the dallas morning news, i'm sure they have copies of that, i'm not making that up, that is here. dorothy killgalin, was for many ng jack ruby months and before she was supposed to see him for the last dead in her found apartment. that is another book someone shaw, the d

lee harvey oswald was blamed for killing j.f.k. and dallas and nine hundred sixty three the president had been traveling in an open top car with the first lady when the shots rang out also told was swiftly arrested but was himself shot and killed two days later while under police escort historians discussed his motives and his past including an interesting if brief experience in the soviet union and retracing his steps there. where might you find the most drama and lee harvey oswald's life story before the events of november nineteenth sixty three well it could be his short but eventful stay in this city four years before he is president kennedy. most of the places which form part of extraordinary trip still exist like the. railway station where he arrived from helsinki in finland his last stop in a western country before reaching the u.s.s.r. . stayed right here at the hotel berlin which is now the savoy it's just a few minutes walk from the former k.g.b. headquarters. his visa meant that he only had six days to get a soviet citiz

lee harvey oswald, possibly a cia agent? >> this is one of the documents that i think will make people could wonder. there's a deposition with a cia director, and he's asked if perhaps lee harvey oswald is a cia agent or agent, maybe some other kind of agent, and there's not an answer, very unsatisfying. >> and another document shows lee harvey oswald was in mexico city, and while he was there made a very intriguing and interesting and concerning phone call to a kgb officer at the russian embassy there. >> the cia intercepted this, and what we know according to the documents, oswald was spoken in broken russian, and we know from the documents that russia had some concerns, perhaps, they could be blamed for the kennedy assassination later, and we learned from the documents that according to the fbi that cuban operatives said they had been in touch with oswald, and he did sympathize with communist and did have contact with them. >> and the significance of these two things, and the unanswered and unfinished part of the was lee

tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald and moscow. spanish leaders are about to start two days of deliberations on whether to seize control direct control of the catalonia region of spain the state of flux that of course since the controversial independence referendum on october the first catalans policy. it is threatening to push ahead with secession madrid's been piling on political pressure of a sense over it whatever the choice is proving divisive for catalonia as local police force i shall do bensky explained. was a review of the review was i was right was when the national guard deployed by which we see that some lady had friends down already rented the boat is the local police the more so since squadron refused to say for now is the spanish said it is said to was one fifty five suspending the region was most is isabel to come and that the tree was they say it's the worst was. we see the implementation of article one five five as the list desired scenario we call for all opportunities for dialogue to be used prior to the adoptio

ilya patrolling court t tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald and moscow. now hillary clinton's election team and then the democratic national committee reportedly helped bankroll the now infamous dossier on dunmore trump the document was published back in january and outlined unsubstantiated links and deals between moscow and the trump campaign in the run up to last year's presidential election here's how the u.s. president reacted to the latest news. very sad what they've done with this fake it was made up. i understand they paid a tremendous amount of money and hillary clinton always denied it the democrats always denied it i think it's a disgrace it's just really a very it's a very sad it's a very sad commentary on politics at this. well the research on donald trump was initially funded by an unnamed republican and then was picked by a law firm representing and we clinton's camp and the democrats it continued until late october twenty sixth dangerous days before the election the firm behind the dossier fusion g.p.s. hide a former british spy to dig up o

right now nothing has been released affect the part i was involved in, oswald fired three shots, two behind and caused his death and there were no other shooters. rob: you don't buy these conspiracy theories, you say lee harvey oswald wanted to kill the president and ruby wanted to kill him and that is it. what is in those files? why is it we can't see them after 40 or 50 years? >> part of the reason is a lot of mistakes were made in the protections of the president, releasing the root he was going to take, the only way oswald found out he was going to come by his building and a lot of embarrassing information for the cia, the fbi, more so than evidence that will show there was anything unexpected and how the president was killed. rob: a national security to reject those files and nothing in that that is 50 years old. >> some people who are still alive after 55 years that would be embarrassed by it but doesn't sound like there is much that will affect our immediate security. that is what the president is looking at right now before he will release the rest of it in six months. jillia

files reveal about lee harvey oswald. and steve hartman takes us back half a century to the beginning of the road. >> humiliated by a 104-year-old man. tonight, some of the places we've been from all these years "on the road." this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: and this is our western edition. good evening. i'm anthony mason. the trump administration denied today that political connections had anything to do with restoring electrical connections to puerto rico. a huge contract was awarded to a tiny company in whitefish, montana, home town of interior secretary ryan zinke. zinke today said he had nothing to do with the contract. cbs news correspondent david begnaud set out today to find the headquarters of the company somewhere in the middle of nowhere. >> reporter: nestled down this long driveway in whitefish, montana, is a one-story wooden house which is the home of whitefish energy, the tiny energy company with only two full-time employees surprised many. ( doorbell ) there's mail for andy techmanski. when it rec

government had apparently on the oswald issue. there are new details to come out and there are some leads that may not lead anywhere, but they're worth looking at. what i believe this release is about, though, is that era. that era of secrecy i, that era of covert action. and that's what we'll see more details of of the and what's being held back, i believe, are materials regarding foreign government assistance to us, materials about code bricking. materials regarding sources that are not directly related to what happened in dallas but are people run by the cia elsewhere who might have provided a detail or two about oswald's time in russia or japan. i think those are the details. >> you were talking before about cia covert operations in congo i guess with la amonga in dominican republic and elsewhere. there might be information there. >> no doubt about it. i mean, i'll give you an example. still secret, maybe, i haven't been tlu all the documents. i've only started going through them. secret was the cia man who brought the poison

lee oswald has been shot.swald has been shot. there is the man with the gun, absolute panic, absolute panic here in the basement of dallas police headquarters, detectives have their guns drawn. no question about it, oswald has been shot. >> reporter's voice in that remarkable live broadcast was the voice of the late nbc news reporter tom pettit. tom pettit went on to become a very big deal political reporter. went on to interview three u.s. presidents. won awards over a decade's long career. fast forward to 1991, oliver stone movie "jfk" had come out. the jfk film by oliver stone posited a theory that it wasn't oswald acting alone but a broader conspiracy. had always been that around the assassination but movie drove interest into overdrive. in 1992 congress passed a law, jfk records act, idea to tamp down the assassination conspiracy theories. the first batch of documents under that law were released the following year in 1993, and nbc sent tom pettit to the national archives to report on the new details that

tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald and moscow. spanish leaders are about to start two days of deliberations on know whether or not to seized control of the catalonia region there's been a state of flux the since the controversial independence referendum on top of the first parliament threatening to push ahead with six. session and madrid's been piling on political pressure of a sense whatever happens the choice is proving this divisive catalonians local police force in charlotte do bensky explains was the we were i was i was when the national guard deployed well i mean we see that same lady friends down the road running the bases the local police the most o.c. squads right she's a force now is the spanish senate is set to was fifty five suspending the breach was isabel summoned a retreat was they say it's the worst was that we see the implementation of article one five five as the least desired scenario we call for all opportunities for dialogue to be used prior to the adoption of this article but if old simply it turns out to be

no, oswald said that.wald said i'm going to kill him and prove my fealty to the revolution? larry: yes, that is essentially what j edgar hoover said to the warren commission. why didn't the warren commission follow-up? first of all, they did not have direct access to fidel castro. second, they downplayed the mexico city incident, for obvious reasons. president johnson, j edgar hoover, and others, in various ways, formal and informal, communicated to chief justice warren and others on the warren commission that the last thing they wanted was for anything to come out of this commission that could trigger a nuclear war between the united states and the soviet union. johnson feared that the american people, if they thought the soviets or the cubans had anything to do with this, would demand retaliation, and that it would inevitably lead to nuclear war. charlie: there comes out of this also someone named el mexicano. who is that? larry: yes. no one is entirely sure. this is a very odd instant. we are investigat

oswald was the lone shooter.alone. perhaps some where in the material will give us some idea as to the motive as to why. >> fearly 54 years later so much like what the cia knew about oswald's trip to mexico city to meet with soviet and cuban spietz. it's unclear if the secret documents will reveal such details. joe kennedy iii, great nephew of the former president and current massachusetts congressman, supports the release of these government documents. but wishes the white house had handled it differently. >> would have been nice if there was communication between the administration and members of our family. >> during the 2016 campaign then candidate trump had his own ideas about jfk's assassination. made this unfounded allegation, linking ted cruz's father off to the shooting of the 35th president. >> his father was lee harvey oswald prior to oswald being, shot. the whole thing is ridiculous. what is this, right prior to his being shot? nobody brings it up. >> citing is own white house sources, roger stone tol

tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald and moscow. passed the night in a stuffy watching our table be back with us. would hope that you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. you simply want to be. if you're going to be this is what the three of them will be good. in pursuit of always in the water. flow again the british will make his home for five to temps to find any trace of russian interference in the outcome of last year's brics it referendum with more on this is the situation well the anti russia hype continues now here in the u.k. following the brave but quite few tile example of this we've seen in the u.s. of trying to implicate russia in election results that were seen as unfavorable now we do know back here in london a committee within the house of commons had sent a letter to the c.e.o. of facebook mark zuckerberg asking him to provide details on russian ads a linked. to not just the bracks that referendum but also the last u.k. general election now this is part of

oswald killed jfk. so, that is further proof, i think, thalt secret service was unaware of the material the cia and fbi had gathered on lee harvey oswald until the assassination. we saw a memo written by j. edgar hoover saying he was very concerned about the lack of security for oswald by the dallas police department. you'll recall oswald was shot by jack ruby being moved from the basement of the dallas police headquarters. according to this memo, hoover heard of potential threats to oswald and repeatedly urged the police in dallas to give more security and was very disappointed when they didn't. and finally, a memo to the fbi director about the world reaction, including from top officials in the soef union who said their assumption after the assassination was that kennedy was killed by what they called an ultrafar right conspiracy and that the russians were worri worried -- the soefr yets were worried in days after the assassination a general would fire a missile at the soviet union. >> the thing that

blurred photos of oswald and wife marina. oswald had defected to russia in 1959. we knew that too. >> nothing in here i haven't read before. >> ordinary people aroused. >> mafia, exiles, cia and maybe generals. i think they in turn killed kennedy. >> about all the eldrich secret stuff still held by cia will be submitted to board as soon as the white house approves one. until then the theories will go on and on. they did go on and on. the man who is now president said during the campaign that ted cruz's dad did it. why not. but the presidential review board did come together to review the super secret material. that review board only fuelled conspiracy theories further. here's the thing. passed the jfk records act in 1992, gave the national archives 25 years after which they had to release everything they had, including thousands of pages set aside as super secret, sensitive material. national archives is legally obligated to release the last of the specific documents by a specific deadline, that's tomorrow. national archives is complying. president announced he'll

but if it were true, how did he get to know lee harvey oswald? was it at the cuban embassy in mexico city when oswald went there seven weeks before the assassination and spent six days, charlie, six days. we know about a few hours when he went to the soviet embassy and the cuban embassy. what happened? and also, j. edgar hoover suggested to the warren commission, his sources told him fidel castro said, as oswald was leaving the cuban embassy, i'm going to killed john f. kennedy, i'm going to prove my feilty to the revolution, i'm going to kill president kennedy. >> rose: i missed that. who said i'm going to kill-- >> j. edgar hoover. >> rose: who said-- oswalt said that. >> rose: i'm going to kill kennedy and prove my fidelity to the revolution? >> yes. that's what hoover said to the warn commission. why didn't the warren commission follow up? they didn't have access to castro, and they downplayed the mexico city incident for obvious reasons. president johnson, j. edgar hoover and others, in various ways both formal and informal, communicated to

and oswald's killing of the president. he says, we were intercepting oswald's conversation in mexico city and we intercepted a male going to the soviet embassy in washington, both of them had information relating to oswald's state of mind and that didn't go to the secretary service. that's j. edgar hoover. it shows you the level of bungling and they were already thinking of a coverup, not because it killed kennedy but because it hadn't done what it should have done to protect the president. >> he thought ruby was gay? >> yeah it's in the document. >> i didn't know the guy personally, but from what i read -- >> no. no. it's a throw away line for him. if he doesn't like someone that person is a known homosexual. when you're looking for cover ups, sometimes there's big and small. small is to protect a reputation, big a murder. what i'm seeing is fbi bungling. that's what i'm seeing on the oswald case. there's a lot of day tay, though. >> you're talking about cia covert operations in central africa, con go, dominican republic?

two days after he killed jfk -- >> there is lee harvey oswald.s's been shot. >> reporter: oswald was gunned down while in police custody. the sequence of events fueled intrigue and doubt. that same day, fbi director j. edgar hoover dictated a memo insisting doubt be put to rest and wanted, quote, something issued so we can convince the public that oswald is the real assassin. the release was 25 years in the making after congress passed a law calling for the release of all federal assassination-related records by yesterday. experts say the documents could show if oswald was tracked during his trip to mexico city seven weeks before the assassination and whether he spoke of his plan. the documents also could hold clues to one big question, did oswald act alone? >> i would like to think that these documents would be a final answer realistically, that's never going to happen. >> reporter: president trump bowed to pressure from the fbi and cia to withhold thousands more of these documents due to national security concerns. the cia says they have about

ilya for trying tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald in moscow. hillary clinton's election team and the democratic national committee reportedly helped bankroll the now infamous dossier are on donald trump's big news today the dog who it was published caused back in january and outlined in substantiated links and deals between moscow and the campaign in the run up to the last year's presidential election here's how the u.s. president's reacted to this latest news than very sad what they've done with this fake was made up. i understand they paid a tremendous amount of money and hillary clinton always denied it democrats always denied it i think it's a disgrace it's just really very it's a very sad it's a very sad commentary on politics that has got. the research on donald trump was initially funded by an unnamed republican and then was picked up by a law firm representing hillary clinton's camp and the democrats it all continues until late october twenty sixth just days before the election the firm behind the dossier fusion g.p.s. hired a former br

route was, and then he killed oswald to keep him quiet. that's just one of the endless bits of information with all sorts of theories how this happened. the soviets, think it was an ultraright-wing group trying to knock kennedy out of power. people down in mexico. it's a whole huge mix of things out there. and really what you see in this, don, more than anything else is that the net was unbelievably wide. and they were talking to almost everybody who knew almost anything to see if it would tell them something about how this happened beyond just lee harvey oswald. >> tom foreman, thank you very much. so much to talk about when it comes to this. tim, i'm going to start with you. you have been looking through these documents and you found some very interesting material about j. edgar hoover in the investigation. what can you share about that? >> well, the house investigators came across a document dated just two days after the assassination, just after lee harvey oswald was killed in dallas, and it's hoover explaining why he does not want an

, had been working with oswald to set him up at the job at the book depository, make sure he was in a position to let him know where the route was, he was connected to police and that sort of thing and he killed oswald to keep him quiet. that sort of thing. that's one of endless numbers of bits of information they seem to have taken in here with people with all sorts of different theories about this happened. the soviets thinking it was an ultra right-wing group trying to knock kennedy out of power. the cubans saying that -- some of their intelligence officers, oh, i knew oswald, he was a good shot. people down in mexico. it's a whole huge mix of things out there and really what you see in this, don, more than anything else, is that the net was unbelievably wide and they were talking to almost everybody who knew almost anything to see if it would tell them something about how this happened beyond just lee harvey oswald. >> tom foreman, thank you very much. i want to bring in cnn presidential historian timothy naftali and phillip shannon, author of "the secret history of the kennedy as