JFK Assassination Documents Archive Collection USB Card
This collection has 155,790 pages in 30 collections.
The 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy was
killed on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas. Just past his
first thousand days in office, Kennedy was the youngest man elected President;
he was the youngest to die.
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access a significant compendium of material related to the assassination of
John F. Kennedy and the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, and other
related events.
Materials include: FBI Files, Secret Service Files, Warren
Commission documents, Dallas Police Department files, homicide reports,
affidavits, witness statements, newspaper articles, interviews, trial
transcripts, court documents, audio recordings, films, KGB files, NSA files,
and various other documentary material.
Collected from or created by the: National Archives and Records
Administration, President's Commission on the Assassination of President
Kennedy (Warren Commission), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), United
States Secret Service, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Dallas Police
Department, Dallas Municipal Archives, The United States House of
Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Rockefeller
Commission (Also known as The United States President's Commission on CIA
Activities within the United States (SSCI), Department of Defense, National
Security Agency (NSA), and other agencies and depositories.
This collection includes as a finding aid, a unified full-text
index of all computer recognizable text in all documents in this collection,
making it possible to quickly search all computer recognizable text across all
pages of all collections in one search.
The collections include:
Assassination Attempt by Richard Paul Pavlick Secret Service and
FBI Files
JFK Assassination Attempt by Richard Paul Pavlick Secret Service
and FBI Files - 905 pages of Secret Service files, FBI files, and newspaper
articles covering Richard Paul Pavlick and his December 10, 1960, attempt to
assassinate President-elect John F. Kennedy in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Richard P. Pavlick was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February
13, 1887, and educated in Boston Public Schools. He served in the Army during
World War I. After the war he went to work for the Post Office in Boston. After
retiring in the 1950's he moved to Belmont, New Hampshire. In his new hometown
he became known for his public complaints regarding the American flag not being
displayed properly, the government, Catholics, and the Kennedy family and their
wealth.
In 1960, Pavlick was disturbed by John Kennedy's victory over Vice
President Richard Nixon. The then 73-year-old Pavlick turned over all his
property to a local youth camp. He then loaded-up his 1950 Buick and ended up
at the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
CIA Reports
John F. Kennedy Assassination CIA Reports - 1,287 pages of CIA
reports, produced mainly during the months after the assassination of President
Kennedy on November 22, 1963, copied from material held at the National
Archives and Records.
The files date from December 9, 1960, to October 20, 1964.
Much of the material covers the time Lee Harvey Oswald spent in
the Soviet Union and his visit to Mexico City two and half months before the
death of President Kennedy. A CIA produced narrative chronology gives an
annotated timeline account of the Oswalds in the Soviet Union from October 1959
to November 1962, based on personal documents, interviews, and official and
un-official correspondence. A report titled "Name List with Traces"
contains the names of persons in the Soviet Union known to or mentioned by Lee
Harvey Oswald and Marina Oswald. Entries include identifying information from name
traces.
CIA Surveillance of Soviet & Cuban Embassies in Mexico U.S.
Government Files
JFK Assassination: CIA Surveillance of Soviet & Cuban
Embassies in Mexico U.S. Government Files - 3,027 pages of files related to the
CIA's surveillance of the Cuban and Soviet Embassies in Mexico during the early
1960's.
The CIA station in Mexico City kept a close eye on both the
embassies of Cuba and the Soviet Union, using “multi-line phone taps, three
photographic sites, a mobile surveillance team and a mail intercept operation,”
according to one document. The CIA in the 1960s had ramped up its Mexico
operations to monitor communist activity.
Dallas Police Department Files
John F. Kennedy Assassination Dallas Police Department Files -
11,334 pages of Dallas Police Department files, related to the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooting of Lee Harvey
Oswald, and Jack Ruby.
Copies of material transferred from the Dallas Police Department
to the Dallas Municipal Archives, from major items to minutia. The documents
include homicide reports, affidavits, witness statements, newspaper clippings
and correspondence.
Ellen Rometsch FBI File
Ellen Rometsch - (President John Kennedy Administration/Robert
Kennedy) - FBI Files - 478 pages of FBI files covering Ellen Rometsch. Files
date from 1963 to 1987.
In the CIA biography of CIA Director (1961-1965) John McCone,
declassified in 2015, CIA historian David Robage wrote, "Given McCone's
friendship with Robert Kennedy, the chief protector of the president's
reputation, and his responsibility as DCI for assessing the security damage of
the Profumo episode, it seems likely that McCone knew the truth about John
Kennedy's past link to the Keeler circle, used CIA resources to find out what
she [REDACTED] and the FBI had uncovered about it, and passed on what he
learned [REDACTED] to the attorney general. President Kennedy's reckless
encounters with women of dubious note, a Mafia moll (Judith Exner) and a
suspected East German agent (Ellen Rometsch), among others, were widely known
in official and unofficial Washington at the time and already had caused
difficulties for the administration."
Ellen Rometsch was born in Kleinitz Germany, in 1936. After World
War II Kleinitz became part of East Germany. In 1955 she immigrated to West
Germany. Ellen Rometsch's second husband was Rolf Rometsch, a West German
Military aide assigned to Washington, D.C. Mrs. Rometsch arrived in the U.S. on
April 6, 1961. She was investigated as an internal security threat, as it was
reported that she came from East Germany. The investigation finally determined
that Mrs. Rometsch did not pose an internal security threat
FBI Reports
John F. Kennedy Assassination FBI Reports - 6,605 pages of investigative
reports produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the days and months
following the death of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, copied from
material held at the National Archives and Records Administration.
The earliest document in this set is dated July 3, 1961, nearly 2
1/2 years before the assassination of President Kennedy. These early files
cover Oswald's residency in the Soviet Union and FBI interviews with Oswald
after his return to the United States. The bulk of the material was created
after the assassination of President Kennedy.
The documents include long form reports on Oswald and Jack Ruby.
Individual reports address Oswald in Russia, Oswald's trip to Mexico,
miscellaneous threats made against Kennedy, investigations into allegations of
persons other than Oswald, and a report titled, "Hoaxes, False Reports,
and Irresponsible Reporting."
Two reports cover the attorney, Mark Lane. Less than a month after
the assassination, Lane published an article in the National Guardian
questioning the initial information about the assassination. Lane went on to
become a leading critic of the conclusions of the Warren Commission and wrote
several books including, Rush to Judgment (1966), A Citizen's Dissent: Mark
Lane Replies to the Defenders of the Warren Report (1968), Plausible Denial:
Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? (1991), and Last Word: My
Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK. (2011).
The files include a comprehensive report submitted to the Warren
Commission titled, "Investigation of Assassination of President John F.
Kennedy."
Frank Sturgis - Watergate, JFK Assassination, Anti-Castro Activity
- FBI and CIA Files
Frank Sturgis - Watergate, JFK Assassination, Anti-Castro Activity
- FBI and CIA Files - 3,579 pages of FBI, CIA, The United States House of
Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Rockefeller
Commission (Also known as The United States President's Commission on CIA
Activities within the United States), and the United States Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) files covering Frank Sturgis and issues
related to him. Some documents in this collection were not declassified until
November 2021.
Frank Anthony Sturgis (1924–1993) also known as Frank Angelo
Fiorini and Frank Anthony Fachetti was one of the five burglars caught breaking
into Democratic Party offices in the Watergate complex. Before this he served
in several branches of the United States military. In 1958, during the Cuban
Revolution, he fought against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista's forces
alongside Fidel Castro. Later he joined anti-Castro forces and engaged in
assassination attempts against Castro. The CIA has vigorously denied Sturgis’s
claims of having once being employed by the Agency.
The files in this collection covers Sturgis' paramilitary
activities in Cuba, his involvement and ties to assassins and assassination
plots, accusations about Sturgis being involved in the Kennedy assassination
and an alleged meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald, his involvement in the Watergate
break-in, and connections to a break-in at the Chilean Embassy.
J.D. Tippit Warren Commission Vertical Files & Other Documents
J.D. Tippit Warren Commission Vertical Files & Other Documents
- This collection contains a total of 1,033 pages of files.
J.D. Tippit (September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963) a 11-year
veteran of the Dallas Police Department was on beat number 78 patrolling the
Oak Cliff section of Dallas, 15 minutes after the shooting of President
Kennedy. A description of the assassin had been given to patrol officers as a
5'10" slender white male, in his early 30s, weighing approximately 165
lbs.
At approximately 1:14 p.m., Tippit drove pulled up to a
pedestrian, later selected from a lineup as Lee Harvey Oswald. Witnesses
reported that Tippit and Oswald exchanged words, then Tippit exited his car and
as he walked toward Oswald, Oswald drew and fired five shots hitting Tippit
four times.
Jack Ruby CIA Files
JFK Assassination: Jack Ruby CIA Files - 3,862 of pages of CIA
files related to Jack Ruby, material produced or collected by the Agency.
Approximately 2,700 pages of the files are from the CIA. Approximately 1,000
pages are FBI and House Select Committee on Assassinations files containing
information related to both the CIA and Ruby.
Jack Ruby Murder Trial Transcripts, Court Documents, Historical
Documents
Jack Ruby Murder Trial Transcripts, Court Documents, Historical
Documents - 3,133 pages of trial transcripts, court documents, and historical
documents from the trial of Jack Ruby for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. This
collection includes:
Trial Transcripts and Court Documents
Jack Ruby Handwritten Note
Warren Commission Vertical File
Juror Journals
Allen McCoy Journal
J. Waymon Rose Journal
Jack Ruby Warren Commission Vertical Files
John F. Kennedy Assassination: Jack Ruby: Warren Commission
Vertical Files 8,982 pages, in 65 file folders, covering Jack Ruby, selected
from the "Key Persons" File of the President's Commission on the
Assassination of President Kennedy, also known as the Warren Commission.
On November 24, 1963, Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, who was
in police custody, in the basement of the Dallas Police Department headquarters
building. A Dallas jury found Ruby guilty of murdering Oswald, and Ruby was
sentenced to death. Later, Ruby appealed his conviction and death sentence and
was granted a new trial. Ill with lung cancer, Ruby died of a pulmonary
embolism on January 3, 1967, at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and
where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.
The documents contained in these files were photocopied by the
Commission from the mass of documents that were created or accumulated by the
Commission, to form a segmented collection of documents covering Jack Ruby.
Most documents in this vertical file not created by the Commission were created
by the FBI. Other documents are from the Secret Service, Department of Defense,
Dallas Police Department, and other government agencies. These files cover all
aspects of the background and activities of Jack Ruby. The documents include
interviews, reports, transcripts of testimony, depositions, affidavits and
written statements, memorandums concerning thebackgrounds of individuals,
administrative papers, letters of notification, transmittals and so forth.
The file folders' subjects/titles include: Activities, Reaction to
Assassination, Presence at Police Station, Entrance to Basement of Police
Station, Background, Affiliations, Labor Union Activities, Racketeering and
Subversive Activities, Associates and Relatives, Association with Oswald,
Business and Financial Interests, Income Tax, Familiarity with the Police,
Medical and Personal History, Military Service, Police Record, Political
Activities, Travel, Ruby's Address Book, Mail and Telegrams, Personal Property,
Telephone Calls, Ruby's Revolver, Motive, Witnesses Interviewed, Arrest and
Interrogation, Trial, Melvin Belli, Conviction and Subsequent Events.
Jim Garrison and Clay Shaw Criminal & Civil Court Documents
& Transcripts
JFK Assassination: Jim Garrison and Clay Shaw Criminal & Civil
Court Documents & Transcripts - 5,886 pages of court documents and
transcripts covering the 1969 criminal trial State of Louisiana v. Clay Shaw
and the 1971 civil trial Clay Shaw v. Jim Garrison.
This collection includes:
Orleans Parish Grand Jury Special Investigation Testimony
Transcripts (1967-1969)
State of Louisiana v. Clay Shaw (1969)
Clay Shaw v. Jim Garrison (1971)
Jim Garrison-Garrison Investigation FBI, CIA & Congressional
Files
JFK Assassination: Jim Garrison/Garrison Investigation FBI, CIA
& Congressional Files - 2,572 pages of FBI, CIA, Commission on CIA
Activities within the United States (Rockefeller Commission), House and Senate
Assassination Committees files related to Jim Garrison, who was the District Attorney
of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973 and his investigation of and
accusations about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Garrison was
portrayed by Kevin Costner in the Oliver Stone film "JFK." Some
material in this collection was not released to the public until May 2018.
Jim Garrison's Conspiracy Investigation Papers
John F. Kennedy Assassination: Jim Garrison's Conspiracy
Investigation Papers - 12,668 pages of records maintained by former New Orleans
District Attorney Jim Garrison, concerning his investigation of an alleged
conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy.
The family of Jim Garrison donated these papers to the National
Archives’ John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection at the request of
the Assassination Records Review Board. This collection consists of records
kept at the home of Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, pertaining
to his investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. These
records were created or collected by Garrison, as part of his investigation and
prosecution of Clay Shaw for conspiracy to assassinate President John F.
Kennedy.
On March 1, 1967, District Attorney Garrison arrested prominent
New Orleans businessman Clay L. Shaw (1913-1974) and charged him with conspiring
to kill President John F. Kennedy. Shaw was tried in 1969. The State of
Louisiana v. Clay Shaw was the only trial ever held in connection with the
assassination. After a six-week trial, the jury acquitted Clay Shaw after forty-five
minutes of deliberation on March 1, 1969.
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison has been accused of
abusing his power in an attempt to prove his conspiracy theory regarding the
murder of the president. Others found that Garrison’s indictment and trial of
Clay Shaw provided a credible platform and new momentum for Warren Commission
critics.
Jim Leavelle Warren Commission Vertical File
JFK Assassination Jim Leavelle Warren Commission Vertical File -
James Robert Leavelle (August 23, 1920) is the former Dallas, Texas, homicide
detective who is most famous for being the tan suited man handcuffed to Lee
Harvey Oswald's right hand, when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby.
John F. Kennedy November 22-25, 1963, Documents, Interviews, Audio
Recordings, and Films
John F. Kennedy: November 22-25, 1963: Documents, Interviews,
Audio Recordings, and Films 1,843 pages of documents, 966 minutes of audio, 1
hour and 35 minutes of video, and 35 photos related to President John F.
Kennedy's November 1963 trip to Texas, his assassination and funeral. Material
from the National Archives and Records Administration and the John F. Kennedy
and Lyndon B. Johnson presidential libraries. Includes recordings of interviews
of Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, and Lady Bird Johnson.
Judith Campbell Exner - JFK, Sam Giancana and John Roselli
Associate FBI Files
Judith Campbell Exner - JFK, Sam Giancana and John Roselli
Associate FBI Files - 642 pages of FBI files related to Judith Campbell Exner.
Some material was not released until November 2017.
Judith Campbell Exner (January 11, 1934 – September 24, 1999),
also known as Judith Exner and Judith Campbell, claimed to be the mistress of
U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli.
Lee Harvey Oswald KGB Files
John Kennedy Assassination - Lee Harvey Oswald KGB Files - This
collection is a set of KGB documents given to President Bill Clinton in 1999 by
Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The files date from 1959 when Lee Harvey
Oswald sought defection to the Soviet Union. Each original Russian language KGB
document is accompanied by a translation later made by the United States
Department of State.
Lee Harvey Oswald Warren Commission Vertical File
John F. Kennedy Assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald Warren Commission
Vertical Files - 12,430 pages, in 91 vertical files covering Lee Harvey Oswald,
selected from the "Key Persons" File of the President's Commission on
the Assassination of President Kennedy, also known as the Warren Commission.
The documents contained in these files were photocopied by the
Commission from the mass of documents that were created or accumulated by the
Commission between December 1963 and November 1964, but some are dated earlier.
They were divided into four time periods, Pre-Russian, Russian, Post-Russian, and
Murder by Ruby, and then categorized into 91 subject folders concerning Lee
Harvey Oswald.
Mark Lane FBI & Warren Commission Files
John F. Kennedy Assassination: Mark Lane FBI & Warren
Commission Files - 2,059 pages of FBI and Warren Commission files involving JFK
assassination conspiracy theorist and author Mark Lane. The documents, mostly
dating from December 1963 to December 1964, were selected from the "Key
Persons" File of the President's Commission on the Assassination of
President Kennedy, also known as the Warren Commission.
Attorney Mark Lane is best known as an author exploring John F.
Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. In 1966, his book critical of the
Warren Commission, "Rush to Judgment" became a best seller. In 2011,
his "The Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK,"
was published.
Four weeks after the November 22, 1963, Kennedy assassination, the
far left New York newspaper the National Guardian published an article written
by Lane. In the article Lane took the role of Oswald's defense attorney,
addressing several issues including the witnesses who claimed to have seen
Oswald on the sixth floor of the school book depository; the paraffin test
which, to Lane, indicated that Oswald had not fired a rifle recently; the
conflicting claims about the rifle which at first had been, as the police
announced, a German Mauser and afterwards an old WWII Mannlicher-Carcano rifle;
the Parkland Hospital doctors announcing an entrance wound in the throat; the
role of the FBI; and the press, who Lane said convicted Oswald before his guilt
was proven.
Lane later contacted the Warren Commission desiring to participate
in the Commission's inquiry, representing the interests of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Three months later the Commission appointed Walter E. Craig, president of the
American Bar Association, to represent the interests of Oswald. However, Lane
did become the attorney chosen by Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey's mother, to
publicly represent Oswald's interest.
National Security Agency (NSA) Files
John F. Kennedy Assassination National Security Agency (NSA) Files
- 2,484 pages of National Security Agency, NSA, files related to the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Some material was not declassified
until November 2017.
The files date from 1963 to 1995. Much of the material dating near
the time of the assassination is composed of Communications Intelligence/COMINT
reports. These are reports of technical and intelligence information derived
from foreign communications by means other than those intended by the sender
and received by others than the intended recipients. The specific
correspondents in these intercepted communications are usually withheld. Much
of the material in this set deals with the NSA’s cooperation with the ARRB.
Newspaper Articles 1963
JFK Assassination Newspaper Articles 1963 - 158 full-page
newspaper sheet pages from 42 newspaper issues dating from November 22, 1963,
to December 25, 1963. Containing coverage of the assassination of President
Kennedy, the shooting of Governor Connally, and the shooting of Lee Harvey
Oswald by Jack Ruby. The newspapers include the Evening Star of Washington DC
and newspapers from Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Minnesota,
Michigan, and Alaska.
Richard M. Mosk Staff Member Warren Commission Papers
JFK Assassination Richard M. Mosk Staff Member Warren Commission
Papers - 1,769 pages of documents. These papers help give a view of the
internal work done by the staff of the Warren Commission. The Richard M. Mosk
papers, consist of drafts and copies of reports, correspondence between members
of the Commission staff, both personal and professional, interviews and
speeches all related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Richard Mosk joined The President's Commission on the
Assassination of President Kennedy staff at the age of 25. As a staff member of
the Warren Commission, he was charged with examining the background of Lee
Harvey Oswald.
This collection includes reports by Mosk covering the history of
presidential protection, history of the secret service, Oswald's marksmanship,
Oswald family finances, and Oswald's life in America after he returned from
Russia.
Mosk wrote legal opinions on pre-assassination issues such as
State Department and Immigration and Naturalization Service decisions
concerning Marina and Lee Oswald's return to the United States. Whether Marina
Oswald was eligible for entry into the United States; Whether Lee Harvey Oswald
should have been issued a passport on June 25, 1963, and if that passport
should have been revoked when the State Department received information that
Lee Oswald was making inquiries about returning to Russia at the Russian
Embassy in Mexico City in late September and early October.
Secret Service Reports
John F. Kennedy Assassination Secret Service Reports - 2,422 pages
of investigative reports produced by the United States Secret Service in the
days following the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963,
copied from material held at the National Archives and Records Administration.
The reports date from November 24, 1963, to October 24, 1964, and
contain approximately 2,250 discernible pages.
Materials in this set includes: A collection of reports on investigations
by Secret Service agents on issues surrounding the assassination ranging from
key fundamentals down to minutia. Reports dealing with aspects of President
Kennedy's autopsy. Interviews of Marina Oswald. A report on the origins of the
"Wanted for Treason" posters featuring President Kennedy distributed
around Dallas. A copy of Lee Harvey Oswald's address book.
A comprehensive report dated December 18, 1963, covers the
protection in place at the time of the assassination and the events of November
22, 1963. The report is by Chief James J. Rowley of the United States Secret
Service. The report emphasizes, "Presidential protection includes not only
physical security measures against direct threats or attacks against the
President, but protection against accidental and impersonal dangers inherent in
Presidential travel and other activities. This responsibility must be carried
out, however, in a manner that will not interfere unduly with the official
activities of the President or with his personal life."
United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (1975-1979)
7,845 pages of hearings transcripts a final report.
In 1976, the United States House of Representatives Select
Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was created. The Committee investigated the
assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. The
HSCA finished its investigation in 1978 and released its report in 1979. It
found that JFK'S assassination was occurred as a result of a conspiracy not
involving Cuba or the Soviet Union.
The findings of the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations
states that the committee had found "a high probability that two gunmen
fired" at the president. This conclusion resulted from the last-minute
“discovery” of a Dallas police radio transmission tape that allegedly provided
evidence that four or more shots were fired in Dealey Plaza. After the report
appeared in print, acoustic experts analyzed the tape and proved conclusively
that the previous radio transmission tape analysis was wrong.
Warren Commission Complete Report, Hearings, and Exhibits - 27
Volumes
President John F. Kennedy Assassination: Warren Commission
Complete Report: Report, Hearings, and Exhibits 27 Volumes - The 19,200 pages
composed of The Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of
President Kennedy, also known as the Warren Commission Report in one volume,
and 26 volumes of hearings, interviews, and exhibits.
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the President's Commission
on the Assassination of President Kennedy, commonly called the Warren
Commission, by Executive Order (E.O. 11130) on November 29, 1963. Its purpose
was to investigate the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on
November 22, 1963, at Dallas, Texas. President Johnson directed the Commission
to evaluate matters relating to the assassination and the subsequent killing of
the alleged assassin, and to report its findings and conclusions to him.
Warren Commission FBI Files
John F Kennedy Assassination Warren Commission FBI Files - 8,155
pages of internal FBI files covering the Bureau's interactions with the
President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, commonly
called the Warren Commission. These sets of documents are from the FBI
headquarters file serial number 62-109060.
They record the interaction between the FBI and members of the
Warren Commission. They document the work performed by the FBI at the request
of the Warren Commission.
Warren Commission - NARA Records Relating to Key Persons
(11/30/1963 - 09/24/1964)
A collection of 673 file folders containing 31,158 pages of
investigation documents, generated by the President's Commission on the
Assassination of President Kennedy (Warren Commission) and other material held
by the National Archives and Records Administration, collected between
11/30/1963 and 09/24/1964, related to approximately 665 individuals, with some
connection to individuals or events related to the assassinations of President
Kennedy and/or Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.
These files were created for reference to the secondary persons. Includes
one or more folders for witnesses who testified before the Commission, gave
depositions, or made affidavits, and for other persons who were involved in the
investigation to a significant extent. Consists chiefly of electrostatic
copies, but also includes carbon copies and a few signed original documents.
Among the papers are Commission documents; transcripts of testimony,
depositions, and affidavits given by the witnesses; memorandums concerning the
background of the persons involved, establishing schedules for hearing
witnesses, or suggesting areas of investigation; covering letters transmitting
depositions. Often the papers consist only of individual pages relating to
particular persons, these pages having been taken or copies from the documents
to which they belong.
This collection contains mostly secondary individuals such as
Dallas Police Department officer Ted Callaway. Officer Callaway described
running after Lee Harvey Oswald as he was fleeing from the J. D. Tippet murder
crime scene, and then chasing after him in a cab.
Among the many individuals who have files in this collection are:
John Jacob Abt (1904 – 1991) an American lawyer and politician,
who spent most of his career as chief counsel to the Communist Party USA
(CPUSA) and was a member of the Communist Party and the Soviet spy network
"Ware Group" as alleged by Whittaker Chambers. Abt contacted the
Dallas Police Department seeking to represent Oswald.
Marion L. Baker a patrolman with the Dallas Police Department gave
an affidavit on November 22nd, 1963, stating that he was a motorcycle escort
when he heard three shots. Shortly afterward he searched the Texas School Book
Depository building.
Earle Cabell (1906 – 1975) served as mayor of Dallas, Texas at the
time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cabell and his wife met United
States President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy at Love Field on the morning of
November 22, 1963. Cabell's wife reported that while riding in Kennedy's
motorcade through Dealey Plaza, she observed "a rather long looking
thing" sticking out of a window of the Texas School Book Depository
immediately after the first shot.
John L. Daniels, the parking lot attendant who witnessed the
Dallas Police Department tow away Jack Ruby's car, after removing Ruby's dachshund
Sheba from the car.
August Eberhardt, was a detective with the Dallas Police
Department, who was friends with Jack Ruby and Jack Ruby's sister Eva Grant.
Eberhardt tells Commission investigators about making social visits to Ruby's
nightclub.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse James Garner who were Lee Harvey Oswald's
landlords for his apartment at 4905 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Oswald resided there from May to September 1963. They reported on Oswald's
difficulty in paying rent.
And material on over 600 other Individuals.
Warren Commission Vertical Files on Core Kennedy Topics
JFK Assassination - Warren Commission Vertical Files on Core
Kennedy Topics - 1,209 pages of documents created or gathered by The
President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, most commonly
referred to as the Warren Commission.
This collection contains Commission vertical files on President
Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy. Documents covering the Commission’s
investigative focus and interviews with witnesses and communications sent to
the Commission from agencies such as the FBI, Secret Service, Dallas Police
Department, and the Dallas County Sheriff Department.
The subjects covered include: Core topics concerning the
assassination; Preparations for the trip to Dallas; The motorcade in Dallas;
Affidavits and interviews concerning the shots fired; President Kennedy's
autopsy; The return of the President's remains to Washington D.C.; and the
actions of Jacqueline Kennedy during the shooting.
Highlights include: A folder labeled "Kennedy, John F. Trip
to Texas." Includes an itinerary for the trip, FBI memo on planning for
the trip, a Secret Service memo reviewing the agency’s preliminary survey of
the trip, memos concerning the trip by the chief of the Dallas Police
Department; Warren Commission Vertical File on President Kennedy’s Motorcade;
and Warren Commission Vertical File on shots fired at President Kennedy.
White House - Air Force One – LBJ & Nixon Audio Recordings
John F. Kennedy Assassination White House - Air Force One – LBJ &
Nixon Audio Recordings - Twenty-one hours and twenty-one minutes of Air Force
One and White House recordings, Nineteen hours and fourteen minutes of LBJ
telephone recording dealing with the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy. Plus, ten hours of President
Nixon audio recording of conversations with cursory mention of the John F.
Kennedy assassination