JFK Files

Jack Ruby's hat commands $53,775 at Kennedy assassination item auction

2009-11-08T00:42:00.001-05:00

by WENDY HUNDLEY / The Dallas Morning News Jack Ruby’s signature fedora commanded $53,775 Saturday at an auction of items linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.The gray felt hat, worn by Ruby when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald, prompted spirited bidding during the auction, said Doug Norwine of Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. Several collectors were vying for the item, which was

Items tied to Kennedy assassination to be auctioned in Dallas

2009-11-07T10:17:00.002-05:00

by AVI SELK / The Dallas Morning NewsCalling all Kennedy connoisseurs.If you've got John F. Kennedy assassination fascination (and money to burn), Heritage Auction Galleries wants you to come down today and get yourself some souvenirs from Dallas' "weekend of destiny," as they call it.The gallery's got a decade's worth of Jack Ruby remnants – from the hat he lived in to the chains he died

Dartmouth Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked

2009-11-05T20:34:00.002-05:00

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS / PRESS RELEASE Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally analyzed an iconic image of Oswald pictured in a backyard setting holding a rifle in one hand and Marxist newspapers in the other. Oswald and

TV Alert: "JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America"

2009-10-11T09:58:00.002-04:00

Part 1 of "JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America" airs 9-11 p.m. EST Sunday, October 11; Part 2 airs Monday, October 12 on The History Channel (check local listings).by KEVIN McDONOUGH / Syndicated TV Columnist OK, I groaned a little when I got the press material for "JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America" (9 p.m., Sunday, History Channel, concluding Monday). I thought I had seen every scrap of footage

Irving buys Paine House, made infamous by Lee Harvey Oswald

2009-09-07T10:23:00.003-04:00

by BRANDON FORMBY / The Dallas Morning News Autry Lewis stood in front of his Irving home on a November morning waiting for a ride. The man who sometimes stayed at Ruth Paine's house across the street was waiting for his ride, too.Lewis didn't see what the man grabbed from Paine's garage before he hopped into a friend's car that Friday morning. But Lewis learned from television broadcasts hours

The Dallas-Cuba Connection - 2009 Update

2009-08-06T10:01:00.004-04:00

by GUS RUSSODocuments released last week under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIPA) detail a secret CIA-National Archives (NARA)-State Department investigation of Cuban intelligence officer Fabian Escalante and reveal, among other things, that Escalante had an indirect connection to accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and that my revealing conversation with former Assassinations

New Reading Room Project at The Sixth Floor Museum

2009-08-05T00:47:00.002-04:00

by DALE K. MYERSCorgan Associates, Inc., one of the largest U.S.-based architectural firms focused on planning and design, has been selected to design the new Reading Room for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Corgan will be renovating the former administrative offices in the former Texas School Book Depository, providing greater access to the museum’s growing collection of 35,000 items

Walter Cronkite, Dead at 92

2009-07-17T20:34:00.002-04:00

by BRIAN STELTER / New York TimesWalter Cronkite, an iconic CBS News journalist who defined the role of anchorman for a generation of television viewers, died Friday at the age of 92, his family said.“My father Walter Cronkite died,” his son Chip said just before 8 p.m. Eastern. CBS interrupted prime time programming to show an obituary for the man who defined the network’s news division for

The Song Remains The Same

2009-05-26T22:55:00.006-04:00

by DALE K. MYERSIf you haven’t been paying attention to the Kennedy assassination debate lately, don’t worry. You’ve heard it all before.Two months ago, Zapruder film alterationists (the miniscule few who believe Abraham Zapruder’s 8mm film of the Kennedy assassination is an altered fraud) squared off against the Zapruder film genuinists (those who accept the Zapruder film as an unaltered

Defendant in dispute over JFK window has died

2009-03-24T22:37:00.002-04:00

ASSOCIATED PRESSOne of the two men involved in a dispute over who owns the "sniper's perch" from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired on President John F. Kennedy has died.An attorney for 81-year-old Aubrey Mayhew said Tuesday his client died over the weekend at a hospice care facility in Nashville, Tenn.Caruth Byrd sued Mayhew, arguing that he inherited the window from his father, who owned the Texas

Unending 'Pane' of JFK Slaying: 3 Snipe Over Who Owns Oswald Window

2009-03-01T10:15:00.002-05:00

by HUGH AYNESWORTH / New York PostYesterday, like every day, dozens of tourists aimed their cameras at the spot on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald infamously crouched on Nov. 22, 1963.But they're looking at the wrong window.The sixth-floor, southeast-corner window where Oswald shouldered his mail-order rifle at President John F. Kennedy's

Trial over JFK 'sniper's perch' dispute is postponed

2009-02-24T08:17:00.002-05:00

by ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News Ownership of the "sniper's perch" from the Texas School Book Depository remains an open question.Caruth Byrd and Aubrey Mayhew each say they possess the sixth-floor window through which Lee Harvey Oswald purportedly fired on President John F. Kennedy.Byrd sued Mayhew almost two years ago after both had tried to sell their windows on eBay, asserting that

Hearing Delayed: Nashville man in dispute over JFK assassination perch

2009-02-23T15:59:00.002-05:00

ASSOCIATED PRESSDALLAS (AP) — A dispute between two men who both claim to own the "sniper's perch" where Lee Harvey Oswald positioned himself to fire on President John F. Kennedy will go to court next month.State district Judge Gena Slaughter was set Monday to begin hearing testimony to determine the owner of the actual sixth-floor window from the Texas School Book Depository, but instead moved

Which Is the Real JFK 'Sniper Perch'?

2009-02-21T09:06:00.006-05:00

by ANN ZIMMERMAN / Wall Street JournalA decades-long dispute over who owns the authentic "sniper's perch" -- the window where Lee Harvey Oswald propped his rifle to take his fatal shots at President John F. Kennedy -- lands Monday in a Dallas court.Figure 1. The window owned by Aubrey Mayhew. (Mick Mayhew)The dispute centers on the origins of windows removed at separate times from the sixth floor

Francis X. O'Neill Dead at 85; FBI agent witnessed JFK's autopsy

2009-02-07T09:50:00.003-05:00

by J.M. LAWRENCE / Boston GlobeRetired FBI agent Francis X. O'Neill Jr., who was one of the last surviving investigators who observed President John F. Kennedy's autopsy in 1963, has died.Mr. O'Neill, who lived in Brewster, died of a stroke Tuesday (02/03) in Cape Cod Hospital, according to his family. He was 85.For decades, Mr. O'Neill battled conspiracy theorists about the JFK assassination. He

CIA Files on Covert Officer Remain Secret

2009-02-05T23:10:00.003-05:00

by DALE K. MYERSAccording to journalist and author Jefferson Morley, CIA lawyers continue to block his Freedom of Information Act request for access to files pertaining to deceased former agent George Joannides, whose 1963 exploits allegedly crossed paths with presumed Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.In a Washington Independent article this week, Morley reports a sworn declaration, filed in

Bill Winfrey: Dallas Morning News photographer captured history

2009-01-22T18:39:00.005-05:00

by JOE SIMNACHER / The Dallas Morning News Bill Winfrey was a self-taught photographer who twice captured historic images for The Dallas Morning News. On April 2, 1957, he captured a deadly funnel cloud as it ripped a path across Oak Cliff and, on Nov. 22, 1963, he took what many consider the definitive photo of a manacled Lee Harvey Oswald raising his fist, seemingly in defiance.Bill Winfrey

Holland-aise Sauce: More Grousing From the Sidelines

2008-12-13T11:46:00.007-05:00

by GUS RUSSOThere’s this term that I love, “ill-informed gadfly,” that seems as though it was coined with Internet scribe Max Holland in mind. In his latest “Gotcha!” screed, "The Underwood Hoax," Kennedy assassination buff Holland, or “Mad Max,” as I like to call him, seeks to solidify his growing reputation as a man so unable to add anything new to the assassination story that he resorts to

JFK Lawsuit Tests Washington’s Culture of Secrecy

2008-12-08T11:07:00.003-05:00

by JEFFERSON MORLEY / WashingtonIndependent.comLast month dozens of public interest groups welcomed the election of Barack Obama with a call to reverse eight years of secrecy and restore openness in the executive branch.It won’t be easy. While the non-profit National Security Archive and other groups are seeking an executive order to revitalize the Freedom of Information Act, the culture of

Cherry-Picking Evidence of the First Shot

2008-12-04T10:32:00.013-05:00

by DALE K. MYERS and TODD W. VAUGHANFlash 8 or higher is required to view videos accompanying this article. Get the free plugin now.In February, 2007, author Max Holland and Johann W. Rush posited that Lee Harvey Oswald fired his first shot earlier than anyone had ever suspected – before the famous Zapruder film even began churning through old Abe’s 8mm Bell & Howell camera.After evidence for

With Malice: The Tippit Murder 45 Years Later

2008-11-22T00:13:00.007-05:00

by DALE K. MYERS / November 22, 2008Forty-five years ago today, Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit was gunned down on an Oak Cliff side street leaving a family and friends to grieve.In 1998, I wrote With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit (Oak Cliff Press, 1998) in an effort to dispel the myths surrounding Tippit’s tragic death and create a factual resource that future

Medallion honors Dallas officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald

2008-11-21T08:56:00.003-05:00

by STEVE THOMPSON / The Dallas Morning News The anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination is Saturday. It's been 45 years since he was shot and killed in downtown Dallas.Most everybody knows the story of his death. But people don't always remember that a Dallas police officer also died that day in an encounter with the president's killer.Officer J.D. Tippit’s comrades don't forget

Oswald co-worker no longer silent about JFK assassination role

2008-11-16T10:50:00.003-05:00

by HUGH AYNESWORTH / The Dallas Morning News Buell Frazier wants to tell it like it is – or was – on a very important day in U.S. history 45 years ago in Dallas. The quiet, thoughtful man of 64 is not as well-known as some of the others who skyrocketed to fame or infamy in November 1963. But Mr. Frazier played a defining, if unintentional, role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.He

TV: Discovery Channel Says JFK Shot from Depository

2008-11-14T17:14:00.004-05:00

Sunday, November 16 - 9:00 PM (EST)- Discovery ChannelUsing modern technology, a team of scientists have recreated the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, to determine that the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository was the most likely origin of the shot that killed him.According to a report in Discovery News, the team of experts, which was

White House Photographer Cecil Stoughton Dead at 88

2008-11-05T15:39:00.003-05:00

by RICHARD PYLE / Associated PressCecil Stoughton, the White House photographer who shot the iconic image of Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, has died. He was 88.Stoughton died Monday [11/03] evening at his at his home on Merritt Island, Fla., his son Jamie Stoughton said.The photo he took of the swearing-in ceremony aboard Air Force One, Johnson