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The National Archives on Thursday made public more than 2,800 page of documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Here are some highlights:
Nov. 27, 1963: A chilling memory
A Secret Service agent interviewed Robert C. Rawls, who was in a bar in New Orleans a week to 10 days before Kennedy’s assassination. Rawls heard a man betting $100 that Kennedy would be dead within three weeks. He thought nothing of it until the assassination. Rawls was drunk at the time and couldn’t remember the name of the guy, what he looked like, or what specific bar it was in.
1963: Secret Service lists surveillance targets
There’s a 413-page document that details everyone that Secret Service was watching between March and December 1963, including Puerto Rican nationals, Klansmen and others. Each had a description of why they were angry at the president and their threat level. The document is a window into how Secret Service viewed potential threats.
Another Secret Service document notes more than 400 people the agency suspected might want to harm the president. One Puerto Rican nationalist interviewed in a Veterans Administration hospital praised Kennedy’s killer Lee Harvey Oswald for thinking big. “Diagnosed schizophrenic paranoid,” the Secret Service notes said. “Considered dangerous by doctor.”
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