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Big>Killing of Kennedy may have derailed Cuba pact By Julian Borger in Washington November 27, 2003 Days before his assassination, president John F. Kennedy was planning a meeting with Cuban officials to negotiate the normalisation of relations with Fidel Castro, a declassified tape and White House documents reveal. The rapprochement was cut off in Dallas 40 years ago by Lee Harvey Oswald, who appears to have believed he was assassinating the president in the interests of the Cuban revolution. But the new evidence suggests Dr Castro saw Kennedy's killing as a setback. He sought a dialogue with the next administration,...

THE STRATFOR WEEKLY 24 November 2003 by Dr. George Friedman The Mystery of Marina Oswald Summary With the passing of the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination, Stratfor pauses to consider one of the less- examined aspects of the case: Marina Oswald. Her connections to the Soviet intelligence apparatus and odd marriage to Lee Harvey Oswald are seldom factored into any theories surrounding the assassination. However, the facts of the case make it clear that the Soviet government wanted Marina Prusakova and Oswald together in the United States. Analysis The 40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination has prompted...

FRONTLINE obtained this photograph from John B. Ciravolo, Jr., of New Orleans. Ciravolo was also a C.A.P. member in 1955 and says he was in the same unit with Oswald and was standing right in front of him in the photo. Ciravolo identified David Ferrie, while former C.A.P. cadet Tony Atzenhoffer, also of New Orleans, identified Oswald and Ferrie in the photograph, and Colin Hammer, who says he served with both men in the C.A.P., also identified both in the photograph. FRONTLINE located the photographer, Chuck Frances, who says he took the picture for the C.A.P. Francis also said that...

CNN reporter Kelly Wallace stands in Dallas' Dealey Plaza and points to the Texas School Book Depository window where, she says, Lee Harvey Oswald is "thought'' to have shot President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 -- 40 years ago Saturday. Then she and the anchor chat about the various conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination and conclude that the truth will probably never be known. That's nonsense. And worse, it's popular nonsense. The truth is known. Oswald, acting alone, murdered JFK. We know this with as much certainty as we know anything in history. And just as we don't...

NEVER FORGET ...Tonight CBS TV News reported that the 1962 Movie about Political Asassination, "The MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" Starring FRANK SINATRA, may have inspired LEE HARVEY OSWALD into asassinating JFK. ...OSWALD viewed this Scarey Movie several times during its long run at a theater that sat next to his Post Office one full year before JFK's Death. ...In the fall of 1963 I remember national TV Coverage of a Los Angeles Press Conference given by a fleeing Sister-in-Law of South Vietnam President DIEM, Madame "Dragon Lady' Nhu. A TV Press Conference that may not have been lost on LEE HARVEY OSWALD....

PBS, 8:00 P.M. Wednesday, November 19, 2003 – Following the visual of the Rebel Flag, a youngish, very short haired woman appeared on the screen. My reception is fuzzy here, so while I can hear the audio perfectly, I cannot always see the picture clearly. As near as I could tell, she was in a setting which spoke of academics. It may also have been an office conference room. She had the large round glasses of the modern female “scholar.” The first time she opened her mouth, she testified to the total bias, the total Orwellian historical rewrite, that one...

Nellie Connally authors book on assassination of Kennedy SAN ANTONIO — (AP) A week or so after President John F. Ken nedy was assassinated, Nellie Connally grabbed a legal pad and a couple of pens and found a quiet place in the gov ernor's man sion to write down what she remembered about the tragic event. Over the next few hours, the then-first lady of Texas scribbled out 22 single-space pages about gunshots and her pink tweed suit being splattered with blood, about trying to protect her wounded husband, about the futile attempt to save the president and the successful...

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Nov. 20, 2002, 10:51PM Lee Harvey Oswald's jail cell may become museum Associated Press DALLAS -- Mayor Laura Miller and members of the Dallas City Council raised the possibility Wednesday of turning the Old City Hall -- where John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was jailed and where Jack Ruby killed him -- into a museum. The cell where Oswald sat following his arrest on Nov. 22, 1963, is on the fifth floor and has been cut off from public view for many years. In recent years, the Dallas Police Department has used the old jail for storage. The...