20.02.2025 15:52
The 83-year-old notorious mafia member James Files claimed that he killed former President John F. Kennedy under a secret order from the CIA. Despite 60 years having passed since the JFK assassination, debates continue. The official decision to release the files was signed by Trump.
"I killed JFK for the CIA: I remember he was leaning back when the bullet hit his head... You won't find this in the Trump files."
83-year-old notorious mobster James Files claims he killed former President John F. Kennedy under a secret order from the CIA and says that the files Trump will release do not contain the truth.
Despite more than 60 years having passed since the assassination, discussions about JFK's death continue. President Donald Trump signed an official order last month to make thousands of secret files public.
The order states that the files are being opened for the families of victims and the American people who "deserve transparency and the truth." However, experts do not believe there is significant information that would change the accepted official version in the archives.
According to official records, JFK was shot in the head and neck by a 24-year-old lone gunman during a motorcade in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was later identified as the assassin and was himself killed live on air by Jack Ruby.
Files, who served 25 years in prison for attempting to kill two police officers in the years following the JFK assassination, became a Christian during his prison years and began to claim he was the real killer.
According to Files' widely rejected account, he followed JFK's convoy as it turned the corner on November 22, 1963, and fired the fatal shot: "I tracked him with a scope. I made the fatal shot before I lost my line of sight. I hit Kennedy in the right temple and blew the back of his head off."
Files claims he worked with a team of Chicago mob hitmen trained by the CIA. He says they collected their weapons after the shot and fled in a maroon Chevrolet Impala through Dallas traffic.
Psychology professor Jerome Kroth is one of the few who finds Files' story "surprisingly credible." The FBI investigated Files' claims in 1994 and concluded they were "not credible."
Files does not believe his name will appear in the files Trump will release. He believes there are records of a secret meeting he allegedly had with CIA officials ten days after the assassination at Chicago's Midway Airport, but thinks they will never be disclosed.
WHAT'S IN THE SECRET FILES?
Only 3% of the records related to the JFK assassination, or 4,000 documents, are still kept from the public. Officials say these documents are classified due to information about living individuals or intelligence offices.
Some documents released in 2017 revealed shocking truths. One of them showed that Oswald met with a KGB agent two months before the assassination, and the FBI was aware of this meeting. Additionally, it was revealed that a reporter from Cambridge News received a mysterious phone call 25 minutes before Kennedy was shot.