Dallas-based expert on new JFK files: Documents reveal intelligence failures, Oswald's foreign ties
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Newly declassified records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy expose intelligence failures and Lee Harvey Oswald's foreign connections, according to FBI expert and Dallas-based historian Farris Rookstool III.
In his analysis of part of the 80,000 documents released Tuesday, Rookstool highlighted newly confirmed details about Oswald's movements, disputes within U.S. intelligence agencies, and potential cover-ups that have fueled decades of speculation.
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