LEE HARVEY OSWALD

Like much of the newly disclosed JFK papers, the memo didn’t contain any secret bombshells that prove an elaborate conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Instead, it was the CIA trying to hide how it does its business

BettmannThe CIA holds documents that show presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in an intelligence operation before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a prominent Kennedy assassination reporter alleged Tuesday.“We’re talking about smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald,” reporter Jefferson Morley said.Morley claimed the CIA operation involving Oswald took place in the summer of 1963, three months before the assassination. The allegation from Morley, wh

GettyThe National Archives and Records Administration released 1,500 secret documents related to John F. Kennedy’s assassination Wednesday. The 1963 killing shocked the nation and continues to arouse fascination in historians and conspiracy theorists alike.The National Archives’ document dump was slated to come a year ago, but President Joe Biden delayed it, blaming the coronavirus pandemic. Another launch date was scrapped a month ago. Some files, originally promised to be released with those t

The National Archives has made public nearly 1,500 documents related to the U.S. government’s investigation into the 1963 assassination of President John F.

The documents include thousands of pages of never-before-seen investigative memos, notes and cables.

Almost 40 years after his death following a bar brawl in Key Biscayne, Ricardo Morales, known as “Monkey” — contract CIA worker, anti-Castro militant, counter-intelligence chief for Venezuela, FBI informant and drug dealer — returned to the spotlight Thursday morning when one of his sons made a startling claim on Spanish-language radio:

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Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, but it might not be an obvious fact to many that Oswald and Kennedy actually had their respective funerals on the same day.

Retired Dallas Police Detective Jim Leavelle, who escorted Lee Harvey Oswald when he was killed by Jack Ruby has died at age 99. DALLAS, Texas - Retired Dallas Police Homicide Detective Jim Leavelle has died at the age of 99. He was the man in the white hat who escorted Lee Harvey Oswald when the JFK assassin was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. Oswald died and later, Ruby died in jail. Leavelle retired from the Dallas Police Department in April 1975.

Jim Leavelle, seen here in 1998, holds the photograph showing him handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. (CNN) - James Leavelle, the Dallas detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was fatally shot, has died, his family told CNN. Leavelle shot to fame after he was photographed next to Oswald, the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy, in November 1963. Oswald, an ex-Marine, assassinated Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, and shot Dallas police officer J.D. In 2013, Leavelle told CNN he wished Oswald had not been shot.

Researchers have put an end to a conspiracy theory regarding an allegedly doctored image of Lee Harvey Oswald that skeptics said cast doubt about his role in assassinating President John F. Kennedy. CBSN's Vladimir Duthiers and Jill Wagner have more.

The veteran news legend is retiring from a journalism career of more than half a century. As a young newspaper reporter, Schieffer went to Vietnam to cover the war. He worked at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on the day President Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas. He brought Lee Harvey Oswald's mother to the police station. Since starting at CBS News in 1969, he has covered the Pentagon, State Department, Capitol Hill and the White House, and anchored the "CBS Evening News."