There was no immediate indication that the records contained new revelations that could radically reshape the public’s understanding of the events surrounding the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy in Dallas at the hands of gunman Lee Harvey Oswald.
But the latest tranche of documents was nonetheless eagerly anticipated by historians and others who, decades after the Kennedy killing, remain skeptical that, at the height of the Cold War, a troubled young man with a mail-order rifle was solely responsible for an assassination that changed the course of American history.
Yes, that's right. Any documents or other evidence in US government files that could have proved, or even indicated, a conspiracy, would have been removed and destroyed decades ago. But the actual documents will be of interest to scholars.
Most of the Oswald Mexican sojourn materials described in this article was covered already by several authors.
The only thing certain about the JFK assassination is that the case will never be closed.
