Does New Document Bolster Conspiracy Theory in JFK Assassination?
Conspiracy theorists, fasten your seat belts. A document found with other items about a year ago in an old safe in a Dallas courthouse bolsters the theory that President John F. Kennedy may have been assassinated as part of a group plot, and the Dallas County district attorney says it could be legitimate evidence.
District Attorney Craig Watkins says he can’t “categorically dismiss (the document) as fake,” reports Reuters. It is a purported transcript of a conversation between Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who is believed to have shot Kennedy to death on Nov. 22, 1963 while Kennedy was in an open car in a Dallas motorcade, and Jack Ruby, the man who publicly shot Oswald to death two days later as he was in police custody, with television cameras rolling.
“We don’t know if this is an actual conversation or not,” Watkins said at a news conference on Monday. “It will open up the debate as to whether or not there was a conspiracy to assassinate the president.”
The district attorney at the time of the Kennedy assassination signed a deal for a movie that was never made, and there is speculation that the transcript could have been part of a movie script, reports the New York Times.
“Experts say the transcript is almost certainly a fake,” reports CNN.
Ruby was convicted of murdering Oswald and sentenced to death, but the Texas Supreme Court said a change of venue should have been granted because of pretrial publicity and ordered a new trial. He died in 1967 of a pulmonary embolism while awaiting retrial, the BBC recounts in a brief biography that includes a still photograph of Ruby shooting Oswald.
