Category: JFK Files

  • The Forgotten Call Logs: When the Warnings Came In

    The Forgotten Call Logs: When the Warnings Came In

    🧾 Case 1: The Florida Caller

    On November 16th, a call was placed to the White House switchboard by a woman claiming to have overheard two men in a Miami diner discussing “the upcoming parade in Dallas” and “a scoped rifle in a warehouse.”

    The transcript notes:

    “Caller states: ‘I know what I heard, and it was serious.’”

    The report was forwarded to the Secret Service.

    No documented follow-up.

    The caller’s name is redacted. Her phone number? Never traced.


    📉 Case 2: The FBI Agent Who Flagged a Pattern

    A mid-level agent named Ronald Beck from the Houston field office submitted an internal memo on Nov. 18 titled: “Oswald Movement Timeline - Anomalous Embassy Visits.”

    It included:

    • Surveillance photos from Mexico City
    • A chart showing Oswald’s last-minute transit patterns
    • A hand-scribbled note: “What is he preparing for?”

    Beck’s memo was marked “irrelevant to protective ops” by DC headquarters.

    He was reassigned the following week.


    📞 Case 3: The Mysterious Dallas Call Drop

    At 11:02 AM on the morning of Nov. 22, a call was routed from a Dallas-area payphone to the FBI tip line.

    It lasted 41 seconds.

    The transcript shows:

    “Individual said: ‘You need to cancel the motorcade. Today. Right now.’”

    The voice was described as male, “possibly using a modulator.”

    The call disconnected mid-sentence.

    That tape was filed under “anomalous activity” and locked away - until now.


    🔒 Systemic Silence

    All three instances were flagged in a 2025 internal audit as “missed indicators.” The same audit uncovered:

    • Deliberate rerouting of threat calls away from senior agents
    • A memo titled “Low Credibility Threshold Protocol” authorizing the discard of “non-actionable panic intel”
    • A directive from Hoover’s office: “Avoid creating panic optics around presidential visits”

    🔚 They Called. No One Answered.

    The JFK files reveal not only how systems failed - but how they were designed to fail quietly.

    In a pre-digital world, deletion was silence.

    And silence made room for history to go exactly as planned.

  • How Key JFK Documents Were Altered After the Fact

    How Key JFK Documents Were Altered After the Fact

    2025 files confirm the post-assassination insertion of forged memos and retyped records into the federal archive to align with the official story.


    📝 Introduction: Not All Documents Are Created Equal

    In the chaotic aftermath of JFK’s assassination, information moved fast.
    But now we know: not all of it was real.

    According to the 2025 release, at least seven pivotal documents in the Warren Commission’s evidence list were typed after November 30, 1963, using paper types and formatting inconsistent with the originals.

    And most were created inside a single building:
    CIA Headquarters – Office of Technical Services.


    🔍 File: “Record Authentication Discrepancy Index – Batch J”

    An internal review by the National Archives Authentication Team (NAAT) flagged these records in 2024:

    • Oswald Mexico City consulate log – altered time stamp
    • FBI memo linking Oswald to “pro-Castro literature” – typed on 1965 bond paper
    • DPD chain-of-custody report for the rifle – has a font not available until 1964

    The most damning: a Secret Service memo referencing Oswald’s mental state, dated October 1963, was traced to a typewriter model released in 1964.


    🧾 The Typewriter Tells All

    Document analysts in 2025 used high-resolution scans to identify the origin of certain typefaces.

    • “Courier Elite Narrow” used in three “1963” memos?
      Not commercially available until 1965.
    • Paper grain and chemical residue matched Langley stock room inventory dated March 1964.

    These falsified documents were quietly entered into the Warren Commission archive in mid-1964 under “supplemental clarification.”


    📎 The Forged Oswald Memo

    One 2025 release shows a CIA Office of Security memo alleging Oswald had a psychiatric breakdown in Minsk in 1960. The document was used to frame Oswald as unstable.

    The memo was accepted at face value in the 1960s.
    But the original carbon copy-released now-shows different phrasing and no mention of psychiatric issues.

    The phrase “emotionally erratic” was added.
    The original reads only: “resident reported withdrawn and quiet.”


    🧠 Why It Mattered

    The forged documents weren’t just mistakes. They shaped:

    • How the public saw Oswald
    • What witnesses were allowed to testify about
    • How future investigations were steered

    These inserts weren’t just convenient. They were intentional redirects.


    🔚 The Paper Trail Was Paved in Lies

    They couldn’t change what happened.

    So they changed the record.

    With white gloves and black ink, history was rewritten-one forged memo at a time.

  • How Surveillance Footage from Dealey Plaza Was Confiscated and Lost

    How Surveillance Footage from Dealey Plaza Was Confiscated and Lost

    2025 declassified documents confirm multiple private and municipal cameras captured JFK’s assassination-but their tapes were seized and never returned.


    🎥 More Cameras, Less Footage

    Dealey Plaza in 1963 wasn’t filled with smartphones-but it wasn’t blind, either.

    There were at least:

    • 3 commercial security cameras
    • 2 Dallas Police traffic cameras
    • 1 camera belonging to a Shell gas station across Elm St.
    • And 1 unidentified private video setup across from the Texas School Book Depository

    Yet in the public record, only Zapruder’s film and a few amateur reels survive.

    The 2025 files explain why.


    🗂️ FBI Memo: “Private Footage Collection – 11/22 Emergency Directive”

    A memo from Dallas FBI Field Office issued at 2:20 p.m. on the day of the assassination reads:

    “Teams instructed to collect all available film or tape materials from businesses near crime scene. Inventory only. Originals to be forwarded to Langley or held at regional lab.”

    This memo was classified until the April 2025 release.

    No inventory list was ever made public.


    ⛽ The Gas Station Tape

    A report from FBI Special Agent Warren Rayfield notes a “16mm stationary reel” collected from a Shell station at 401 Elm Street.

    The footage allegedly showed:

    “Significant crowd movement and a vehicle briefly parked with engine running on opposite curb moments before final shot.”

    The film was logged. Then vanished.

    In 1975, the gas station owner told a congressional investigator:

    “They said they’d return it in a week. I never saw it again.”


    🧾 Traffic Camera Feed: Scrubbed

    A declassified 1967 Texas Department of Public Safety memo reveals that two DPD traffic cams at Elm and Houston were:

    • Active on November 22
    • Recording on loop
    • “Rewound and overwritten within 12 hours of seizure”

    Why? Because Secret Service agents advised it contained “non-verifiable shadows” inconsistent with Oswald’s position.


    📼 The Unidentified Film – “Box 447”

    Among the 2025 archives is a single photo of a man holding a camera across from the depository.

    No name. No footage.
    But the photo was included in a folder labeled:

    “Box 447 – Surveillance recovery, unsourced.”

    That box was destroyed in a document purge in 1971.
    A paper trail confirms its destruction-but not its contents.


    🔚 The Tapes Didn’t Lie-They Just Disappeared

    The official narrative depends on the scarcity of clear, uncut footage.

    The public saw Zapruder.

    The government saw more-and kept it.

  • How Local Police Were Pressured to Support the Lone Shooter Theory

    How Local Police Were Pressured to Support the Lone Shooter Theory

    Newly declassified memos and internal communications reveal how the Dallas Police Department was leaned on by the FBI and Secret Service to align with a prewritten script.


    🚓 A Department Caught in a Storm

    Dallas Police were the first to detain Oswald.
    They collected the first witness statements.
    And for a brief moment-before federal agents arrived-they were running the investigation.

    But by 6 p.m. on November 22, that changed.

    And by midnight, they were told what the narrative needed to be.


    🗂️ File: “Federal Guidance Memo – DPD Liaison”

    A previously redacted memo from FBI Agent James Hosty, unsealed in the 2025 release, outlines a “verbal briefing plan” delivered to DPD command staff.

    Key line:

    “Recommend department emphasize suspect acted alone and not tied to organized activity. Federal channels will handle alternate lines of inquiry.”

    This memo was dated November 22, 8:15 p.m., only hours after Oswald’s arrest.


    🎙️ Press Conference Coaching

    A Secret Service communication log from the evening of November 22 details a conversation with DPD Chief Jesse Curry:

    “Remind press that investigation is active but no evidence of conspiracy at this time. Advise caution in statements that could spark public anxiety.”

    That night, Chief Curry’s exact words to reporters were:

    “We have no evidence that anyone else was involved.”

    Internally, Curry was still reviewing conflicting witness reports suggesting otherwise.


    🧾 Witness Statements Redacted

    2025 files include a series of handwritten DPD statements-some of which never made it into the Warren Report.

    • One officer described a “second figure” seen behind the fence on the grassy knoll
    • Another mentioned hearing shots from two different directions

    Internal FBI routing notes on both documents read:

    “Do not forward. Non-corroborative.”


    🧠 Suppressed Tape Logs

    A memo from KRLD Radio, confiscated by Dallas PD and returned two weeks later, had been altered.

    The original tape included:

    • Live witness audio claiming “multiple shooters”
    • A caller identifying a man near the overpass with ‘something shiny’

    The returned copy was missing those segments.
    The 2025 files include a note from a DPD liaison:

    “Segments deemed speculative were edited for public safety purposes.”


    🔚 Dallas PD Wasn’t In On It-They Were Put On Script

    The Dallas Police weren’t orchestrators.

    They were caught in a machine much larger than themselves.

    They were told what to say.

    They were told what not to pursue.


    And they obeyed-under pressure from the highest levels.

  • How the JFK Autopsy Was Controlled from the Top Down

    How the JFK Autopsy Was Controlled from the Top Down

    New files reveal direct White House interference in the autopsy of President Kennedy, from the moment his body landed at Bethesda.


    🏥 A Closed Room with an Open Script

    At Bethesda Naval Hospital on the night of November 22, 1963, the official autopsy of President John F. Kennedy began.

    But what the 2025 files now confirm is this:

    The pathologists weren’t in control. The Pentagon was.

    And the autopsy was guided, edited, and ultimately constrained by outside hands.


    📁 File: “Autopsy Conduct Protocol – National Security Override”

    A newly declassified military memorandum, previously withheld under executive privilege, outlines an emergency policy labeled:

    “Contingency Medical Supervision Protocol – POTUS Termination”

    It states that in the event of an “unauthorized loss of presidential life,” a national security liaison shall be present to direct procedures.

    In JFK’s case, that liaison was Admiral Calvin Galloway, a physician-but also a military intelligence liaison to the White House.


    🩺 Pathologist Pushback

    Dr. James Humes, the lead Navy pathologist, wrote a draft memo the day after the autopsy (found in 2025 files) stating:

    “I was advised not to dissect the back wound. I objected. Objection was overruled.”

    The handwritten annotation at the bottom reads:

    “Must align with preliminary FBI conclusion re: single bullet trajectory.”

    This memo was never submitted to the Warren Commission.


    🧠 Missing X-Rays, Edited Photos

    Included in the 2025 release are internal memos from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, where JFK’s X-rays were temporarily processed.

    A technician report notes:

    “Several cranial exposures removed from master file – no chain of custody provided.”

    Additionally, the original negatives for at least 3 autopsy photos were marked “surplus” in a declassification label.

    These were replaced in the National Archives with retouched duplicates-confirmed via new forensic imaging.


    🧾 Military Chain of Custody: Broken

    A 1964 inventory list from the White House Medical Unit shows that several original autopsy items (bullet fragments, tissue samples) were:

    • “Transferred to secure holding, Fort Detrick”
    • “Then reclassified and destroyed (authorization code redacted)”

    The 2025 files now reveal the redacted code was traced to General Curtis LeMay’s office.


    🔚 This Was Never a Medical Exam-It Was a Managed Operation

    JFK’s autopsy wasn’t about science.

    It was about story control.

    The real wounds didn’t match the narrative.

    So the narrative was altered-and the wounds edited to fit.

  • The Altered Film: What They Did to the Zapruder Reel Before We Ever Saw It

    The Altered Film: What They Did to the Zapruder Reel Before We Ever Saw It

    2025 files reveal that the famous footage was intercepted, duplicated, and possibly edited before being returned to Zapruder’s family.


    🎞️ The Film That Changed Everything

    The Zapruder film, captured on a Bell & Howell 8mm camera from the grassy knoll, became the most scrutinized home movie in history.

    But from the moment it was developed, it was out of Zapruder’s hands.

    In 2025, newly released records show:

    The film was held at a government lab in Rochester, NY-for “analysis and processing”-for nearly 48 hours before Time-Life took possession.

    And the timeline doesn’t add up.


    📁 File: “Photo Analysis – Visual Asset 10014”

    Declassified CIA correspondence from November 23–24, 1963, refers to a film asset designated 10014. It was “acquired from civilian source, analyzed by NPIC, and logged for duplication.”

    NPIC = National Photographic Interpretation Center (a CIA image analysis hub).

    The key line in the summary:

    “Frame sequencing adjusted for coherence with observed ballistic pattern.”

    That phrase-“adjusted for coherence”-is nowhere in the Warren Report.


    🧠 The Missing Frames

    Several researchers have long claimed the film skips frames during the headshot sequence.

    The 2025 ARRB memo confirms this:

    “There is photographic evidence that Zapruder frames Z-313 to Z-317 were duplicated and restructured.”

    A recovered 1967 internal memo from Time-Life’s production staff refers to:

    “Reels received from federal agency-not original negatives. Treated as final product.”

    The real negatives? Still missing.


    🖥️ Optical Effects Evidence

    A now-declassified Rochester Kodak processing lab intake form from November 23, 1963, lists:

    • “Lab Session: 7:30–9:45 p.m.”
    • “Optical printer alignment”
    • “Color wash test strip – reject”

    This is consistent with film splicing and contrast modification, techniques commonly used in military film editing at the time.


    🎙️ The Technician Who Spoke Too Late

    In a 1992 deposition (sealed until now), an NPIC technician described seeing:

    “A second-generation print of the Dallas film being processed for frame stabilization and clarity insertion.”

    He noted that:

    “The original had a more vivid backward motion of the head. The version we worked on was less abrupt.”

    His statement was classified until the April 2025 document release.


    🔚 The Truth Was in the Frames-Until the Frames Were Changed

    The Zapruder film wasn’t altered in the digital age.

    It was modified within 48 hours of the assassination-by experts, using the best tools of their era.

    They edited history, frame by frame.

    And gave the world a cleaner version of chaos.

  • The CIA’s Covert Operations in Latin America

    The CIA’s Covert Operations in Latin America

    Among the trove of documents released in 2025, a series of CIA memos and reports detail extensive covert operations in Latin America during President Kennedy’s administration.

    These operations aimed to influence political outcomes and counter perceived communist threats in the region.


    🕵️‍♂️ Covert Operations in Chile

    One of the newly declassified documents reveals that the CIA funneled several million dollars into the 1964 presidential campaign of Eduardo Frei Montalva in Chile to ensure his election over socialist candidate Salvador Allende.

    This operation was part of a broader strategy to prevent the spread of communism in Latin America. ​National Security Archive


    🛑 Plans to Depose Haitian Dictator

    Another set of documents discusses CIA plans to depose Haitian dictator François “Papa Doc” Duvalier.

    The agency had been building an exile force to invade Haiti from the Dominican Republic.

    However, these plans were compromised when Dominican President Juan Bosch decided he was unwilling to allow such an exile force to use his country as a base for military operations against Duvalier. ​National Security Archive


    📁 Coordination with Israeli Intelligence

    The files also include a proposal for extended CIA-Israeli coordination of intelligence activities in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere.

    This suggests a broader international collaboration in covert operations during the Cold War era. ​National Security Archive


    🧩 Implications and Historical Context

    These revelations provide insight into the extent of U.S. involvement in foreign elections and regime change during the 1960s.

    They highlight the lengths to which the CIA went to counteract communist influence, often intervening directly in the political affairs of sovereign nations.

  • Echo Chamber: How the Media Sold the Lone Gunman Story in Real Time

    Echo Chamber: How the Media Sold the Lone Gunman Story in Real Time

    Newly declassified files reveal coordinated messaging between intelligence officials and major news outlets on the night of JFK’s assassination.


    📺 Breaking News-or Built Narrative?

    At 1:40 p.m. CST on November 22, 1963-less than an hour after JFK was pronounced dead-Dallas police were already telling reporters that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.

    Before charges were filed.
    Before an autopsy.
    Before anyone knew the full story.

    By 6 p.m., every major network was framing the event around a single shooter. The 2025 declassifications show this was no accident.

    It was a media strategy crafted in tandem with federal agencies.


    🗞️ File: “Media Guidance – Presidential Incident, Dallas”

    A CIA memo dated November 22, 1963 at 4:45 p.m., distributed under the internal subject line “Narrative Coordination,” reads:

    “Recommend consistent reference to individual suspect until situation stabilizes. Discourage speculative references to broader elements or foreign parties.”

    It was sent to CBS liaison contact “Media 6”, later identified in 2025 records as Sig Mickelson, CBS’s VP of News at the time.


    📻 The “Expert Roundtable” Script

    Transcripts from a pre-planned media panel taped on the night of the assassination included:

    • A military intelligence analyst emphasizing “rifle accuracy” and “single-source firepower”
    • A psychiatric consultant (later revealed to be a CIA contractor) discussing Oswald’s “textbook delusions”
    • A historian reminding viewers that “political violence often springs from lone actors, not conspiracies.”

    The entire segment was reviewed in advance by a liaison officer, according to a 2025 internal CBS-CIA coordination memo.


    🧠 AP Wire Controls

    Another 2025 document, from the AP’s internal logs, shows that two alternate headlines were drafted:

    1. “Shooter ID’d – Acted Alone”
    2. “Assassin Believed Connected to Unknown Group”

    Only the first headline was cleared after a call from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s office.

    The second headline was labeled “potentially destabilizing”.


    📡 ABC and the “Oswald Package”

    An ABC internal summary declassified in 2025 mentions a prepared file titled:

    “Oswald – The Communist Defector Narrative”

    It was pre-written and loaded into the newsroom’s teletypes by 6:30 p.m. CST.

    The file was built from State Department talking points dated October 1963-long before Oswald had re-entered the national spotlight.


    📰 Silence on Inconvenient Witnesses

    The 2025 files also reveal that local Dallas outlets who interviewed witnesses describing multiple shooters or alternate angles had their tapes confiscated by Secret Service and Dallas PD-and some were never returned.

    One such outlet, KRLD Radio, had a reel labeled “Shots, crowd confusion, 2 shooter theory – 11/22.”
    The log now reads: “Removed by federal liaison. Never returned.”


    🔚 The Story Was Told Before It Was Known

    The 2025 files show how media compliance, not facts, built the lone gunman story in real time.

    The coordination was subtle, indirect, and effective.

    The press didn’t ask questions.

    They read a script.

  • Witness 529: The Testimony That Vanished

    Witness 529: The Testimony That Vanished

    New files reveal the suppressed account of a Dealey Plaza bystander who described two gunmen-and was never called to testify.


    👤 A Ghost in the Footnotes

    In previously redacted FBI documents, “Witness 529” is mentioned five times.

    Until now, their identity and statement were unknown.
    But the 2025 release uncovers the original interview transcript-along with the reason it was buried.


    📄 The Statement: Two Men, One Shooter

    On November 22, 1963, Dorothy Marcelle Ray (now confirmed as Witness 529) was standing on the northwest side of Dealey Plaza, near the triple underpass.

    In her interview with FBI Special Agent Paul Connors at 6:40 p.m. that night, she described:

    • “Two men on the grassy area-one ducked as the shots rang out.”
    • A second man, standing, “with what looked like a long briefcase or instrument case.”
    • A metallic flicker from that direction when the third shot was fired.

    Ray stated clearly:

    “The sounds weren’t from the same direction. The echoes weren’t the same.”


    📁 Why Her Statement Vanished

    A memo from FBI Dallas Field Office, now unredacted, includes a chilling note:

    “Statement deviates from evolving narrative. Advise non-inclusion in central file. No call for Commission.”

    And a handwritten annotation:

    “Do not recontact subject. Stability questionable.”

    No follow-up was ever conducted.
    Dorothy Ray was never interviewed again.


    🧠 ARRB 2025 Summary: A Pattern of Omission

    The ARRB’s summary of suppressed witness accounts, now public, lists Ray among:

    • 8 eyewitnesses who heard multiple shooter directions
    • 3 who gave initial statements but were never deposed
    • 2 whose interviews were logged, then “lost”

    The report concludes:

    “Ray’s account was neither inconsistent nor irrational. It was simply inconvenient.”


    📸 No Photo, But She’s In the Frame

    One of the 2025 files includes an annotated still from a Secret Service review of amateur footage, with a figure matching Ray’s position circled.

    It’s labeled “Possible alt-witness – unconfirmed.”

    This frame had been cropped out in official reproductions for decades.


    🔚 The People Who Saw Too Much Were Left Out

    Dorothy Marcelle Ray didn’t change the story.
    She just saw something that didn’t fit the story already written.

    And so her name was hidden.

    Her words were buried.

    Her role became a ghost-until now.

  • The Foreign Files: How Allied Intelligence Tried to Warn the U.S.

    The Foreign Files: How Allied Intelligence Tried to Warn the U.S.

    Newly declassified cables show British, French, and Israeli intelligence flagged Oswald-and concerns about a wider plot-before the shots were fired in Dallas.


    🌍 Outside Eyes on an Inside Threat

    U.S. agencies weren’t the only ones watching Oswald.

    In the early 1960s, multiple foreign intelligence services were monitoring both Oswald and the turbulent political climate in America.

    What we now know from the 2025 file dump is that some of those agencies sounded the alarm-loudly and clearly.

    But those alarms were silenced, ignored, or outright denied.


    🇬🇧 MI5 Memo: “Subject Oswald – Suspected Interference Asset”

    A classified British memo dated October 10, 1963, surfaced this year in the JFK records.

    It describes Oswald as:

    “An erratic personality recently re-entering the United States with questionable ties and known Soviet overtures.”

    Sent to the CIA’s London station, it included a warning:

    “Recommend close surveillance of Subject should he travel domestically or seek embassy contact.”

    A handwritten CIA note responds:

    “Domestic jurisdiction. No further action necessary.”


    🇫🇷 French Intelligence Cable: “Disturbance Scenario – American Vulnerability”

    A September 1963 transmission from France’s DGSE warned the U.S. of:

    • An American defector (unnamed, but later linked to Oswald)
    • Mentions of “a scenario” involving a political leader
    • A connection to anti-Gaullist propaganda networks in Dallas

    The cable ended with:

    “Unclear if theoretical or planned. Advised as caution.”

    It was labeled “Low Priority – Unverified” and shelved.


    🇮🇱 Mossad Flash Report: “Oswald Attempted Embassy Contact – Tel Aviv”

    An explosive addition to the 2025 file set is a Mossad intelligence flash, dated November 8, 1963.

    It reports:

    “Man matching Oswald attempted entry to U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv. Claimed to be ‘clearing path’ for U.S. alignment. Rejected. Suspicious demeanor.”

    The file had been buried in State Department Jerusalem correspondence, never tagged as JFK-related.


    🧊 Why the Silence?

    A CIA internal memo from 1964 admits:

    “Foreign partners offered theories deemed inconvenient to domestic investigations.”

    Translation:
    If it didn’t fit the lone gunman theory, it got dumped in a drawer.

    An ARRB 2025 commentary notes:

    “Several of the most accurate warnings came from abroad. Few were followed.”


    🔚 The Warnings Came From Everywhere-Except Inside

    France flagged the setup.

    The UK tagged Oswald.

    Israel reported him trying to insert himself into diplomatic spaces.

    But inside the U.S. intelligence apparatus?

    The truth was inconvenient. And foreign voices were ignored.