The tinfoil hat wearing crowd is eagerly awaiting the release, today, of the final batch of files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
More than 3,100 documents that have never been seen by the public will be downloadable on the National Archives website for anybody to pore over. Fans of the conspiracy theories surrounding the shooting are eager to find a smoking gun that would back up their years of theories.
At the University of Texas, Professor Don Graham teaches a course called "The Kennedy Assassination: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy." He tells 1200 WOAI news that the most pressing questions surround how much the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico before the shooting, where he met with Russian and Cuban ambassadors.
"Did Oswald say out loud to somebody that he had plans to kill the president? Because if he did, and they knew that, it's kind of a big deal." Oswald said he was visiting the embassies to get visas, but there are theories that the rooms were tapped, and the intelligence community knew what was said.
And while the papers will certainly fuel those looking for conspiracies, UT History Prof Jeremi Suri, says, today's release is really about government transparency.
"The real story here is how hard it is to get our own government to give us information and how hard they work to keep material secret longer than they should," he explains. "And the intelligence committees are the worst."
He says the government could have ended much of the conspiracy theories decades ago with the release of this information, but instead, they kept it locked up in what he believes was an attempt to cover their own tracks.
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