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1964

January 1

• Lonnie Hudkins writes in the Houston Post that Lee Harvey Oswald might be an FBI agent. [1.370]

January 2

• FBI Director J.Edgar Hoover sends an urgent memo to Dallas Special Agent in Charge J. Gordon Shanklin, ordering polygraph test of Ralph Leon Yates' testimony. [9.352]

January 3

• Ralph Leon Yates tells the FBI a third time about the man looking like Lee Harvey Oswald that he picked up on November 20, who carried a long object wrapped in paper, and talked about how one might assassinate the President. [9.351]

January 4

• Ralph Leon Yates tells the FBI a fourth time, during a polygraph examination, about the man looking like Lee Harvey Oswald that he picked up on November 20, who carried a long object wrapped in paper, and talked about how one might assassinate the President. After the test, Yates is ordered to Woodlawn Hospital for the mentally ill. (Over several years, transferred to Terrell State Hospital, Veterans Hospital in Waco, and Rusk State Hospital, where he dies of congestive heart failure at age 39.) [9.351]

January 7

• Howard Brennan fails to identify Lee Harvey Oswald. [1.396]

January 20

• The first staff conference of the Warren Commission is held. Earl Warren says that President Lyndon Johnson wanted the Commission to squelch rumors, some "if not quelched, could conceivably lead the country to war which could cost 40 million lives" and "No one could refuse to do something which might help prevent such a possibility." [6.51]
• Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko steps off Aeroflot jet in Geneva, Switzerland from Moscow, Russia, as member of Soviet disarmament delegation. He sends a telegram to CIA indicating he is ready to give information. [12.3]

January 21

• FBI questions Warren Reynolds and L.J. Lewis about seeing a man after the officer J.D. Tippit shooting on November 22. [1.276]

January 22

• Attorney General of Texas Waggoner Carr informs Warren Commission General Counsel J. Lee Rankin that Lee Harvey Oswald was an FBI undercover agent. [1.366]

January 23

• Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko visits his CIA contact in Geneva, Switzerland. Nosenko says he wishes to defect to the USA rather than return to Russia. He says he saw the KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald, and could describe the Oswald relationship with Soviet intelligence. He says when Oswald went to Moscow, the KGB investigated him, decided Oswald was of no use, asnd recommended he be returned to the USA. [12.6]
• (night) Warren Reynolds is shot through the head with a rifle in the dark basement of Reynolds Motor Company. (The prime suspect David Wayne Garner is freed when alibi is given by Nancy Jane Mooney, a former employee of Jack Ruby's Carousel.) [1.278] [7.160]

January

• Reporters ask Earl Warren when the facts about the assassination would be made know. Reply is "You may never get the truth in your lifetime, and I mean that seriously". [6.51]

January 27

• The Warren Commission holds a closed-door meeting to discuss the statement of Texas attorney general that "Oswald was an undercover agent for the FBI". [9.64]
• Former CIA director Allen Dulles tells a Warren Commission meeting that no CIA employee should ever say truthfully if anyone was in fact a CIA agent. [9.144]

February 3

• The Warren Commission begins its hearings. (Over the next seven months, it will hold 51 sessions, taking testimony from 552 witnesses.) [1.7]

February 5

• Nancy Jane Mooney (former employee of Jack Ruby's Carousel) gives affidavit to Dallas police giving an alibi for David Wayne Garner's location the night of the shooting of Warren Reynolds. [1.278]
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February 9

• Press conference in Washington, D.C., the State Department announces that Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko had defected from the Soviet Union's disarmament delegation in Switzerland, and has been granted political asylum in the USA. [12.18]

February 13

• Nancy Jane Mooney is arrested for "disturbing the peace" by Dallas police. (Less than 2 hours later, she is found hung in her cell.) [1.279]

February

• A photo is published in many newspapers and magazines worldwide, showing Lee Harvey Oswald with a rifle in his left hand, and copies of The Worker and The Militant in his right hand, and a pistol on his right hip. On the photo, the nose of Oswald casts a shadow directly downward, but the body shadow fslls to the rear and right. (The Warren Commission states the photo is authentic, taken by Marina Oswald on March 31, 1963. Pictures published in Life, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Detroit Free Press differ from each other.) [1.356]

February 24

• The Warren Commission requests the president of the American Bar Association Walter E. Craig participate in the investigation, serve as counsel for Lee Harvey Oswald, despite Oswald's mother having chosen another lawyer weeks earlier. [1.378]

February 26

• FBI agents Maurice A. Taylor, Donald E. Walter, and Alekso Poptanich question Soviet defector Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko about Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy assassination. Nosenko gives the same story that Oswald was of no use to the KGB and released to return to the USA. (Eventually, many details of his testimony are found to be false, but FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover accepts his basic line that the Soviets knew about Oswald but did not direct his actions.) [12.21]

March 1

• FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover forwards to the Warren Commission his report on Soviet defector Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko. Hoover accepts Nosenko's statement that the KGB knew about Oswald in Russia, but did not make use of him. [12.21]

March 4

• Mark Lane appears before the Warren Commission. He asks to examine the rifle found on the 6th floor, but is denied. [1.115]

March 9

• Clint Hill, Secret Service Agent, testifies at the Warren Commission, says exit wound was at the back of President Kennedy's head. [7.7]

March 10

• Arnold Rowland appears before the Warren Commission, describing in detail the two men he claims to have seen in the Book Depository 6th floor window. [1.396]

March 11

• FBI agents ask Linnie Mae Randle again to indicate the size of bag she saw Lee Harvey Owald carry on the morning of November 22. The length of bag she creates is measured to be 28.5 inches. [1.147]

March

• Dorothy Killgallen interviews Jack Ruby in private in Dallas. (The details of the intervew are never revealed.) [9.484]

March 25

• Steven F. Wilson is interviewed with the FBI, saying he would testify under oath at the President's Commission to his statement (shots from railroad area). (He is not called before the Commission.) [1.113]

(month unknown)

• (about March) The Warren Commission interviews George J. Applin about seeing Jack Ruby in the Texas Theater at the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald. Applin denies seeing Jack Ruby there. (In 1979 he will again acknowledge that he saw Jack Ruby at the Texas Theater.) [9.361]
• President Lyndon Johnson orders the release of silver from coinage, discontinuance of issue of silver certificates, removal of notes from circulation, and manufacture of money back to Federal Reserve. [4.88]

April 2

• Sebastion Francis Latona, Supervisor of the Latent Fingerprint Section of the Identification Division of the FBI, testifies at the Warren Commission. He says he could not find any identifiable latent prints on the supplied rifle when he thoroughly examined it on November 23. He states that in his lab he used photography, lighting, gray fingerprint powder, only discovering faint ridge formations near the trigger guard. Latona explains that the rifle is a cheap old weapon, the wood could hardly take a print, and the metal poorly finished. He states he found no trace of a palm print. [1.153]

April 7

• Victoria Elizabeth Adams appears before the Warren Commission counsel, and volunteers that from her position on the 4th floor of the Book Depository, she thought the gun shots came from the right and below (toward the grassy knoll), rather than to the left and above (south-east 6th floor). [1.110]
• William H. Shelley appears before the Warren Commission counsel, and says that the gun shots sounded like they came from the west. [1.111]

April 9

• Testimony of Dallas Motorcycle Officer Clyde Haygood at the Warren Commission, says after hearing sounds of shots, he "went into the scene of the shooting... up to the railroad yard." [7.18]

April 16

• Napoleon J. Daniels is questioned before Commission counsel, and swears his initial statements that the man who passed him into the Dallas police building on November 24 resembled Jack Ruby, but also states he didn't think it was Ruby who went into the basement. [1.223]

April 18

• Deposition of Robert Hargis, Dallas Police Motorcycle Officer, riding flank left-rear side, immediately behind President Kennedy's limousine: "When President Kennedy straightened back up in the car the bullet hit him in the head, the one that killed him and it seemed like his head exploded, and I was splattered with blood and brain, and kind of a bloody water. Well, at the time it sounded like the shots were right next to me." [3.95] [7.9]

May 8

• John Garrett Underhill is found dead in his home of a bullet wound. Garrett told co-workers and friends he knew for fact the CIA had killed President John Kennedy, and shared information with New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, and planned to meet with him. [4.83]

May 14

• J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, appears before the Warren Commission.
  • He gives the FBI's conclusions: Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy, "not connected with any conspiracy of any kind", but unsure if he aimed at the President or Connally.
  • Hoover's personal belief is that Oswald aimed at the President.
  • Hoover says Oswald's mother Marguerite Oswald was emotionally unstable, for retaining Mark Lane as lawyer, and for making money off publicly speaking of her son's innocence.
  • Hoover says Oswald's wife Marina Oswald is more reliable, for insisting on her husband's guilt.
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May 15

• Mrs. J.D. Tippit is interviewed by agents of the FBI. [1.258]

May 24

• FBI and Secret Service use the Zapruder film in a re-enactment of the assassination, showing that Connally could not have been shot from the Book Depository 6th floor window after frame 240. [1.67]
• New York Herald Tribune publishes a photo taken by James W. Altgen at the time of the first shot, showing a man at the entrance of the Texas School Book Depoistory, noting that Altgens had never been questioned by the FBI or the Warren Commission. [1.353]

June 5

• The Warren Commission, attended by Chief Justice Warren, General Counsel J. Lee Rankin, and US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, questions Jacqueline Kennedy. No questions are asked about her husband's injuries, but she volunteers the information. (In the transcript, in place of that testimony, is the phrase "[Reference to wounds deleted]". The Warren Commission assures that her words are in the National Archives, available in 75 years.) [1.46]

June 7

• Earl Warren, Gerald Ford, Chief Counsel Rankin, and various lawyers, but not the two lawyers investigating Jack Ruby, Leon Hubert and Burt Griffin, visit and talk for three hours with Jack Ruby. At the end Ruby says "Gentlemen, unless you get me to Washington, you can't get a fair shake out of me". Ruby begs Warren eight times for a transfer for further questioning and lie-detector tests, but Warren refuses. [1.241] [10.455]

June 16

• Warren Commission General Counsel J. Lee Rankin writes to The New York Times, Newsweek, and Life inquiring about retouching of Lee Harvey Oswald photo prior to publishing. (All reply that they did some retouching of the supplied photo.) [1.357]

June 27

• William Markham, son of Helen Louise Markham, is interviewed by independent interviewers. He says his mom often lied. Helen is supposedly the source of the description of the man wanted in the officer Tippit shooting. [1.281]

(month unknown)

• At Warren Commission hearings, Amos Euins says he did not say he saw a white man at the window of the 6th floor of the Texas School Depository, just a white spot on his head. Says he no longer knows if he was white or black. [1.281]
• Pravda of the USSR: "The more details are reported, the darker and more shameful this entire story [JFK assassination] becomes." [8.10]
• Marzani and Munsell in the USA publishes book Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy?, written by Joachim Joesten. [6.44]
• G.P. Putnam's Sons of the USA publishes the book Who Killed Kennedy?, by Thomas G. Buchanan. [5.537]
• Denco Corporation of the USA publishes the book Destiny in Dallas, edited by R.B. Denson. [5.537]
• (Summer) FBI director J. Edgar Hoover says to Billy Byers and son in Texas: If I told you what I really know [about the JFK assassination] it would be very dangerous to this country. Our whole political system could be disrupted." [7.165]

July 2

• Mark Lane appears before the Commission again, and is permitted to examine the rifle allegedly found on the 6th floor of the Book Depository. He notes to the Commission that it is clearly stamped "MADE IN ITALY" and "CAL. 6.5", saying it was unlikely for a police officer to have made such a mistaken identification, to have called it a 7.65-caliber German Mauser. [1.115]

July 18

• Jack Ruby is given a polygraph examination (lie detector test) in Dallas County Jail in the presence of FBI agents, Dallas chief jailer, Dallas deputy sheriff, an Assistant District Attorney of Dallas County, a psychiatrist, council for the Commission, and council for Ruby. Ruby is not asked if he met with Bernard Weissman and Officer J.D. Tippit at the Carousel Club on November 14. [1.258]

July 19

• (about 2:00 PM) Wilma Tice receives an anonymous phone call at home from a man telling her "It would pay you to keep your month shut", the same day as receiving a letter from the President's Commission about appearing and testifying in five days. [1.273]

July 21

• (about 1:00-1:30 AM) Wilma Tice receives two phone calls at home; when she picks up, the caller immediately hangs up. She calls the Dallas police, who come out and find a ladder wedged against the back door, and the front door also not able to be opened from inside. [1.273]

July 22

• Sylvia Odio testifies before a Warren Commission attorney. Odio had been working in underground in anti-Castro activities. She says Lee Harvey Oswald visited her on September 26 or 27 last year, with two other Cuban or Mexican men, who introduced Oswald as "Leon Oswald". The next day one of the other two men called and said Oswald was a former Marine, an expert rifleman, and had said "President Kennedy should have been assassinated after the Bay of Pigs". Odio identifies Oswald from photographs. (The Warren Commission concludes Oswald did not visit Odio.) [1.336]

August

• General Dynamics Corp makes a test of the paraffin casts of Lee Harvey Oswald in a nuclear reactor as a check for bullet primer. Dr. Vincent P. Guinn conducts the tests, but reports to New York World-Telegram and Sun that the results are secret until the publication of the Commission Report. (The Report states that it is "impossible to attach significance" to the radio-active response, and does not reveal the secret,) [1.152]

August 26

• L.J. Lewis submits an affadavit to the Warren Commission, stating the FBI got the order wrong and timing too soon in the November 22 shooting of officer Tippit. [1.276]

August 27

• The FBI submits a second report to the Warren Commission, giving same order of events in November 22 shooting of officer Tippit, but saying witness seeing man was only a few seconds after shooting. Still wrong, according to eyewitness Lewis. [1.277]

(month unknown)

• Merlin Press in the United Kingdom publishes the book Oswald, Assassin or Fall Guy?, by Joachim Joesten. [8.93]

September 5

• Lieutenant J.C. Day declines to make a written signed statement regarding his taking of a palm print from the 6th floor rifle on November 22. [1.155]

September 6

• Marina Oswald again appears at the Warren Commission, showing a Mexico City bus ticket she found in a Spanish-language magazine. (The suddenly-found ticket stub is taken as final conclusive evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was in Mexico City.) [6.48]

September 18

• (7:54 PM) Senator Richard Russell, member of the Warren Commission, tells President Johnson he doesn't believe the Commission position that "the same bullet that hit Kennedy hit Connally". Johnson replies "I don't either". [7.187]

September 24

• The President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy presents its conclusions to President Lyndon Johnson. [1.8] [4.18] [8.93]

September 27

• The Warren Commission report volume one is published. Conclusion: no conspiracy to kill the president, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. [1.10] [4.18] [6.ix,49] (September 28 [12.50])

(month unknown)

• The October issue of Mechanix Illustrated states that the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle "is crudely made, poorly designed, dangerous, and inaccurate", and "unreliable on repeat shots". [1.123]

October 2

• In a Life magazine article, Representative Gerald R. Ford says a reporter on November 22 filed a story saying the rifle was a Mauser based on an officer who thought it might be a Mauser. [1.118]

October 11

• US-based communist newspaper The Daily Worker article says the Warren Commission Report downplayed material indicating right-wing conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination. [4.41]

October 23

• FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover writes a letter to Warren Commission head council J. Lee Rankin, recommending he not release certain FBI "reports and memoranda dealing with Michael and Ruth Paine and George and Jeanne de Mohrenschildt. Making the contents of such documents available to the public could cause serious repercussions to the Commission." [9.169,459]

November 23

• The complete 26 volumes of the Warren Commission Report is released. [6.49]

December 18

• The New York Herald Tribune reports that evidence and investigating reports used by the Warren Commission have been stored in a special vault in the National Archives Building, sealed for 75 years. [1.229]

1965

January

• The American Bar Association Journal publishes "A Lawyer's Notes on the Warren Commission's Report" by Alfredda Scobey, a lawyer employed by the Warren Commission. She argued that no court could legally have found Oswald guilty on the Warren Commission evidence. [1.14]

March

• Tom Howard, lawyer for Jack Ruby, dies of a heart attack. [8.122]

(month unknown)

• Award Books of the USA publishes the book The Unanswered Questions About President Kennedy's Assassination, by Sylvan Fox. [5.537]
• Dell Publishing Company of the USA publishes the book Whitewash, by Harold Weisberg. [5.537]
• Thomas Y. Crowell Company of the USA publishes the book The Two Assassins, by Dr. Renatus Hartogs and Lucy Freeman. [5.538]

July 14

• Assistant sales service manager H.J. Gebelein of Winchester-Western Division of Olin Mathieson states in a letter that 6.5mm Manlicher-Carcano cartridges are not being produced commercially now; any previous production is government surplus from 1944. [1.122,411]

August

• CIA asks Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin to assassinate Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer; he refuses. [9.317]

September 4

• Rose Cherami is found dead on the road near Big Sandy, Texas, hit by an unknown car. (Cherami had told police two days before the Kennedy assassination that she overheard drug dealers talk about the planned assassination.) [4.84]

September

• An unnamed source claims the Soviet Union's KGB spy agency could prove US President Lyndon Johnson was responsible for the Kennedy assassination. [4.42]

September 16

• The KGB of the Soviet Union concludes Lyndon B. Johnson was responsible for the assassination of President John Kennedy. [7.313]

November 8

• Dorothy Kilgallen dies at age 52 of barbituate and alcohol intoxication, in her Manhatten apartment. Kilgallen was a celebrity panelist on TV's What's My Line? earlier that day. Kilgallen was a journalist who wrote an article about the relationship between John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe two days before Monroe's death. Kilgallen also wrote an article detailing Jack Ruby's testimony before the Warren Commission Report was released, but would not reveal her source. [4.82] [9.485]

1966

February 14

• Death of Albert Guy Bogard, an apparent suicide victim from carbon monoxide poisoning in his car, at a cemetery in Hallsville, Louisiana, USA. (Bogard, a car salesman in Dallas, had told the FBI of a "Lee Oswald" who test drove a car on November 2.) [9.440]

March 27

• Mark Lane interviews J.C. Price about what he saw from the roof of the Terminal Annex Building at the time of the shots killing President Kennedy. Price says the man had a white shirt, weighed maybe 145 pounds, 5-foot 6-inches or 7-inches tall, no hat, and sandy long hair. He ran over behind the Texas Depository Building. [1.419]

April 6

• Napoleon J. Daniels tells Mark Lane that the man (Jack Ruby) he saw pass unchallenged into the basement just before Lee Harvey Oswald was shot was the only person to enter in the 20 minutes preceding the shooting. [1.223]

(month unknown)

• President Lyndon Johnson tells White House staff member and political operative Marvin Watson that he "was convinced that there was a plot in connection with the assassination" and that he felt the CIA had something to do with this plot". [6.109]
• In Switzerland and Holland, the book Oswald: The Truth, by Joachim Joesten is published. [8.116]
• In England, the book The Garrison Inquiry by Joachim Joesten is published. [8.116]
• In England, the book Marina Oswald by Joachim Joesten is published. [8.116]
• In Germany, the book The Case Against Lyndon B. Johnson in the Assassination of President Kennedy by Joachim Joesten is published. [8.116]

August 9

• Lee Edward Bowers Junior dies in a car crash in Midlothian, Texas. Shortly before his death, he claimed coffee he drank at a diner had been drugged. Bowers worked as control tower worker at the rail yard adjacent to Dealey Plaza, and on the day of the Kennedy assassination, saw four men at the grassy knoll, two unknown to him, saw flash of light and possibly smoke at the time of shots fired. [4.84] [9.453]

August

• Holt, Rinehart & Winston of the USA publishes the book Rush to Judgment, written by Mark Lane. [1] [5.537] [6.ix]

October 29

• US Navy Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer is found dead in his office at the National Naval Medical Center, of a gunshot wound to the right temple (friends say he was left-handed). (The death is ruled a suicide. Pitzer filmed the Kennedy autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital and allegedly kept a copy at home.) [4.83] [7.177] [9.315]

December

• FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover memo indicates Soviet Union officials believe the Kennedy assassination was work of political right in USA. [4.40]

1967

January 3

• Jack Ruby AKA Jacob Leon Rubenstein dies of pulmonary embolism at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. [4.26]

February 20

• New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison holds a press conference announcing an investigation into New Orleans-based conspiracy behind the President John Kennedy assassination. [2.102]

February 22

• David Ferrie is found dead in his home. (The coroner rules it a cerebral aneurism, natural cause.) [2.108]
• Aladio del Valle, close friend of David Ferrie, is shot through the heart in Miami. [2.109]

(month unknown)

• Mafia gangster John Roselli tells his Washington lawyer that Fidel Castro learned of American assassination plots against him, so retaliated by having Kennedy killed. The lawyer alerts Chief Justice Earl Warren. (The Roselli name is not revealed publicly until 1976.) [10.434]

March

• District Attorney of New Orleans orders the arrest of Clay Shaw on charge of conspiracy to murder President John Kennedy. [6.221]

May 1

• Clay Shaw is arrested on charges of conspiracy in the murder of President John Kennedy. [2.109]

June 28

• Ed Hoffman, the deaf mute who saw the man who fired the final shot from behind the fence above the grassy knoll, tries to give his testimony to Dallas FBI Special Agent Will Hayden Griffin, without a sign language interpreter. Griffin does not understand well, but suggests Hoffman keep quiet about what he saw, even offering Hoffman a bribe. [9.266]

(month unknown)

• Grosset & Dunlap of the USA publish the book The Truth About the Assassination, by Charles Roberts. [5.536]
• Harper & Row publishes the book Death of a President, by William Manchester. [5.536] [14]
• In France, the book The Truth About the Jack Ruby Case by Joachim Joesten is published. [8.124]
• The Bobs-Merrill Company of the USA publishes the book Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, The Authorities and The Report, by Sylvia Meagher. [5.536]
• Coward-McCann of the USA publishes the book Lee, A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald, by Robert Oswald and Barbara Land. [5.537]
• Bernard Geis Associates of the USA publishes the book Six Seconds in Dallas, by Josiah Thompson. [5.537]

1968

January

• Julia Ann Mercer sees statements attributed to her by the Dallas police and the FBI, about seeing Jack Ruby driving and letting out a man with a rifle case at the grassy knoll 1.5 hours before the Kennedy assassination. She calls the statements unrecognizable and opposite to what she said. [9.256]

June 5

• US Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. [4.25]

(month unknown)

• New Orleans Grand Jury hears Marina Oswald's testimony about Ruth Paine. Marina says the Secret Service told her (after the assassination) not to associate with Ruth Paine becasuse Paine was connected to the CIA. [9.173]
• Tip O'Neill, Kenny O'Donnell, and others are at a restaurant. O'Donnell, who was present at the President John Kennedy assassination, says he was sure he heard two shots from behind the fence, but the FBI said he must have been imagining things, so O'Donnell testified to the Warren Commission the way the FBI wanted him to. [6.27]
• Funk & Wagnalls of the USA publishes the book The Day Kennedy Was Shot, by Jim Bishop. The book takes the position that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole shooter of President John Kennedy, and also shot police officer J.D. Tippit. [5]
• The New American Library of the USA publishes the book Assassination. The Death of President Kennedy., by Relman Morin. [5.538]

1969

April 15

• John M. Crawford dies when his plane crashes minutes after takeoff near Huntsville, Texas. Crawford was a friend of Jack Ruby, and lived next to Wesley Frazier, co-worker of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Book Depository. [4.84]

May 1

• Clay Shaw is found not guilty of conspiracy to murder President John Kennedy. [2.109] [6.221]

(month unknown)

• President Lyndon Johnson does an interview for CBS Television, says Lee Harvey Oswald "was quite a mysterious fellow, and he did have connections that bore examination". Then he asks CSB to withhold that section of the interview on the ground of "national Security". (CBS complies, releasing the video in 1975.) [10.131]

November 6

• Dallas Morning News reports Dallas Chief of Police Jesse Curry saying "We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle, and never did. Nobody's yet been able to put him in that building [Texas School Book Depository] with a gun in his hand." [3.126] [7.52]

1971

• Death of Richard Kollmar, husband of Dorothy Killgallen, of apparent suicide. (Dorothy had interviewed Jack Ruby in private in 1964 but never revealed what he said.) [9.485]

1972

• David Lifton at the University of California Los Angeles compares the Harper bone skull fragment of President Kennedy to official government X-rays taken of Kennedy's skull. The recently identified occipital bone also appears in the occipital area on the X-rays, which is impossible, meaning the X-rays are not authentic. [9.283]
• The book Cuba, Vietnam, Oil - Three Reasons Why President Kennedy Had to Die by Joachim Joesten is published. [8.116]

October 16

• Louisiana congressman Thomas Hale Boggs is assumed to die in a plane crash in Alaska, but the body nor plane are found. Boggs was on Warren Commission, strongly dissented to the conclusion, and accused FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover of lying during his testimony. [4.84]

1973

May 16

• A military intelligence document is released, revealing that, on November 22, 1963, Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Jones of the 112th Military Intelligence Group of Fort Sam Houston contacted the FBI to establish that Lee Harvey Oswald was linked to "A.J. Hiddell", the named purchaser of the rifle allegedly used to kill President Kennedy, and the pistol allegedly used to kill Officer Tippit. [7.294]

(month unknown)

• Former President Lyndon Johnson admits in an interview he "never believed that Oswald acted alone." [6.ix,45]

1974

• Richard Lester finds a 6.5mm bullet near the Texas School Book Depository. [10.528]
• Joseph Adams Milteer dies when portable heating unit blows up. 13 days before the Kennedy assassination, Milteer had said to undercover police officer that assassination "was in the working", and would happen "from an office building with a high-powered rifle" and authorities will pick up somebody within hours... just to throw people off.". [4.83]

1975

February

• Lawyer Mark Lane forms the Citizen's Commission of Inquiry. [6.26]

March

• The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination is first shown on public television. [10.47]

June

• The Rockefeller Commission uncovers evidence of illegal CIA operations in the USA. [6.x]

June 19

• (11:30 PM) Sam Giancana is murdered by 7 gunshots to the head inside his home in Chicago, Illinois. [7.214] [10.502] (July [8.146])

(month unknown)

• John Martino tells Texas businessman Fred Claasen "Oswald was to meet his contact at the Texas Theater. They were to meet Oswald in the theater, and get him out of the country, then eliminate him. Oswald made a mistake... There was no way we could get to him. They had Ruby kill him." [10.451]
• Santo Trafficante says "Now there's only two people alive who know who killed Kennedy, and they ain't talkin'". [7.267]
• Penthouse Press releases the book "The Assassination Tapes: An electronic probe into the Murder of John F. Kennedy and the Dallas Coverup" by George O'Toole. [3.89]
• Rolando Masferrer is killed when his car is blown up by a car bomb. (Masferrer knew about the Kennedy assassination.) [7.310]
• A journalist learns of the existence of the November 6 1963 envelope from Lee Oswald to be given to Agent James Hosty. FBI receptionist who took the letter says it said "Let this be a warning, I will blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if you don't stop bothering my wife." James Hosty says the letter said "If you have anything you want to learn about me, come talk to me directly. If you don't cease bothering my wife, I will take appropriate action and report this to the proper authorities." [10.395]

September 17

• The New York Times reveals in an article the destruction of a letter written by Lee Harvey Oswald to FBI agent James Hosty. (The Justice Department chooses not to pursue the matter.) [9.337]

1976

• Death of William Harvey, CIA agent, coordinated CIA-Mafia plans to kill Fidel Castro. [10.507]
• Release of book "The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond: A Guide to Cover-Ups and Investigations" by editors Peter Dale Scott, Paul Hoch, and Russell Stetler. [3.128]
• A man using a metal detector finds a .45-caliber bullet behind the retaining wall on the grassy knoll. [10.528]

July

• (maybe July) Johnny Roselli's body is found a 55-gallon steel drum floating off the coast of Miami, Florida. [4.38] [10.502]

September 7

• The Washington Post publishes the article "Behind John F. Kennedy's Murder" by Jack Anderson. [3.140]

September

• A new committee is established by Congress. [8.145]

1977

March 29

• Edward Jay Epstein interviews George de Mahrenschildt. He says that he befriended Lee Harvey Oswald on the encouragement of Dallas CIA Domestic Contacts Service Chief J. Walton Moore. [9.47,169]
• Three hours after the Epstein interview, George de Mohrenschildt is found shot dead in a house in Manalapan, Florida. (He had just been informed of upcoming questioning by Gaeton Fonzi, investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.) [7.217] [9.48] [10.499]
• Chuck Nicoletti, top hit man for the Giancana organization, is shot three times in the back of his head while sitting in his car, then the car explodes. [4.38] [7.217]

April 5

• Carlos Prío Socarrás is killed by gunshots outside his home in Miami, Florida. (His death is ruled a suicide. Socarrás was sought as witness by Congress for information about the President Kennedy assassination.) [7.311]

(month unknown)

• The FBI releases 100,000 pages from its JFK assassination files. [10.132]
• Ed Hoffman, the deaf mute who saw the man who fired the final shot from behind the fence above the grassy knoll, tries again to give his testimony to the FBI, but his story is poorly understood or recorded. [9.266]
• Major John Pickard, commander of photograhic department at Canadian Defence Department, studies the Lee Harvey Oswald rifle+pistol photos, says the look faked, due to inconsistent shadows, and incorrect object sizes. [10.95]
• The book The Oswald File by Michael Eddowes is published. [8.154]

September

• At the University of Southern California, a series of debates are held between the CIA and its critics. Mark Lane addresses the role of the CIA in the assassination of President Kennedy. In response, David Atlee Phillips, former head of the Western Hemisphere for the CIA, says "there was never a photograph taken of Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City", and "there is no evidence to show that Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Soviet Embassy". [6.82]

1978

February 3

• Frank Sturgis testifies in deposition for case Hunt v. Third Press et al.. He states that he "was approached by an agent of the CIA to do a domestic assassination." [6.3]

(month unknown)

• Mark Lane interviews California judge James Botelho, who was a former roommate of Lee Harvey Oswald in the Marines. Botelho says "Oswald was not a Communist or a Marxist. If he was I would have taken violent action against him and so would many of the other Marines in the Unit.", and "I was sure that Oswald was on an intelligence assignment in Russia". [9.40]
• Death of Regis Kennedy, shortly after talking to Assassinations Committee. Kennedy was an FBI agent in charge of New Orleans investigation after John Kennedy assassination. [10.506]
• McGraw-Hill Book Company publishes the book Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, by Edward Jay Epstein. [12]
• Two private researchers ask to see Lee Oswald's IRS record for 1962, under a Freedom of Information Act request. The IRS refuses to comply. [10.550]
• Carolyn Johnson (nee Arnold) sees the FBI report on her November 26, 1963 interview. She notes it differs from what she told them about Lee Harvey Oswald. [9.286]

August 8

• During the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Interview of Special Agent Thomas L. Johns, who was riding with Vice President Lyndon Johnson, two cars behind President Kennedy: "The first two [shots] sounded like they were on the side of me towards the grassy knoll." [3.99] [7.15]

November 3

• E. Howard Hunt testifies before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. [6.193]

December 13

• The final draft of the report of the committee states "the shots which struck President Kennedy were fired from the 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository." [8.142]

December 16

• Professor G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel of the Select Committee on Assassinations, declares the Mafia was behind lee Harvey Oswald. [8.140]

1979

• Former Alpha 66 leader Antonio Veciana tells the House Select Committee on Assassinations that in September 1963 he saw Lee Harvey Oswald meet with his CIA contact Maurice Bishop. [9.74]
• Antonio Veciana is shot in the head in Miami, but recovers. (Neither the FBI nor the Miami police investigate.) [9.75]
• US House of Representatives releases "Report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations". Conclusion on President John Kennedy assassination: probably two gunmen, and conspiracy likely. [3.138] [6.x]
• George J. Applin again acknowledges that he saw Jack Ruby at the Texas Theater at the same time as when Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended there. [9.361]
• Congressman Representative Floyd Fithian says "Organized crime had a practical motive to seek a quick end to the Kennedy administration... the picture for organized crime was very bleak indeed." [10.281]
• Warren Commission Counsel Burt Griffon says "I always thought all along about the Dallas police that anything that would put them into trouble or embarass them, they would lie to us. No question about that." [10.487]

1980

• McGraw-Hill Book Company publishes the book Conspiracy by Anthony Summers. [8.155] [10]

September

• Charles Harrelson, in a lengthy stand-off with police, confesses to having shot President John Kennedy. (Later, an FBI investigation finds the confession not credible.) [4.77]

(month unknown)

• (fall) National Research Council establishes the Committee on Ballistic Acoustics. [8.150]

1982

• National Academy Press publishes the final report of the Committee on Ballistic Acoustics. They conclude there is no evidence of a shot from the grassy knoll. [8.150]
• The book Crime of the Century, the Kennedy Assassination from a Historian's Perspective by Michael Kurtz is published. [8.158]
• Princeton University Press publishes the book American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics by James W. Clarke. [8.160]

1984

• In France the book Big Brother: My Life, Reviewed and Corrected by the FBI by Thomas Buchanan is published. [8.171]

July 9

• In the trial of Hunt, Jr. vs Liberty Lobby, Victor Marchetti (former CIA officer) deposition states "in my opinion, the CIA, as an institution, was not involved in that (JFK) assassination" "I think there was some sort of a connection in the assassination with CIA personnel, either officers, agents, or former officers or agents, that the Agency wanted to cover up". [3.144]

August 9

• Douglas Caddy, attorney for Billie Sol Estes, contacts the US Attorney's office, informing them that Estes had personal and direct knowledge of Lyndon Johnson ordering the murder of President John Kennedy, carried out by assassin Mac Wallace. [3.23] [7.316]

1985

January 15

• Marita Lorenz gives deposition for trial of Hunt v. Liberty Lobby. Lorenz, former lover of Cuban President Fidel Castro, says two cars of seven people travelled from Miami to Dallas, with Frank Sturgis and Pedro Diaz Lanz. The cars csrried rifles and handguns: M-16s, M-1s, sh9otguns, .38s, .45s. In a hotel in Dallas on November 21, they met E. Howard Hunt and Jack Ruby. Hunt delivered money for the "operation". Others in the Miami safe house: Orlando Bosch, Alexander Rorke, Jr. [6.291,306]

January

• Trial in Miami, Florida, Hunt v. Liberty Lobby, on defamation of E. Howard Hunt by alleging he was present in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. Attorney Mark Lane succesfully casts serious doubt on claimed alibi of Hunt being in Washington DC on the 22nd. [6.283]

February 6

• In the case of Hunt v. Liberty Lobby, the jury find Liberty Lobby ninocent of defamation of E. Howard Hunt. [6.320]

(month unknown)

• The book Reasonable Doubt by Henry Hurt is published. [8.175]
• In prison, Carlos Marcello tells cellmate (FBI informant) Jack Van Laningham (and on FBI tape) "Yeah, I had the son of a bitch [President Kennedy] killed. I'm glad I did. I'm sorry I couldn't have done it myself.", according to Laningham. [4.37]

1986

• Holt, Rinehart & Winston release book "Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by Henry Hurt. [3.151]

October 5

• Death of Elsie Wilcott of cancer; former CIA agent. (Worked for CIA 9 years, knew of Lee Oswald status in CIA, resigned 1966 to speak out against actions of the agency.) [9.147]

1987

• Santo Trafficante Junior's deathbed confession to lawyer Frank Ragano admits Trafficante and Carlos Marcello arranged the hit on President Kennedy. "Carlos ****ed up. We shouldn't have killed John. We should have killed Bobby [Kennedy]." [4.38] [7.267]

1989

• Carroll & Graf of New York publishes book "Crossfire" by Jim Marrs. [3.100]

1991

December 20

• Film director Oliver Stone's JFK movie is released to US theaters. [4.4]

1992

April

• Book JFK: Conspiracy of Silence by Charles Crenshaw. [9.309]

(month unknown)

• Pelican Publishing releases the book "JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness" by Bill Sloan and Jean Hill. [3.141]
• S.P.I. Books releases the book "First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President Kennedy" by Robert D. Morrow. [3.143]

October 26

• US Congress passes President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, demanding all files related to probe into Kennedy's death be declassified and released to the public no later than 25 years from this date. [4.4]

1993

• University of California Press releases the book "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK" by Peter Dale Scott. [3.146]

1994

February 10

• Death of Jim Wilcott of cancer; former CIA agent. (Worked for CIA 9 years, knew of Lee Oswald status in CIA, resigned 1966 to speak out against actions of the agency.) [9.148]

(month unknown)

• Ocean Press releases the book "ZR Rifle: The Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro: Cuba Opens Secret Files" by Claudia Furiati. [3.141]
• Consolidated press releases the book "Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza" by Craig Roberts. [3.88]
• Yeoman Press releases the book "Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy" by Richard B. Trask. [3.93]
• In prison, James Files confesses to firing the fatal bullet at President Kennedy. [4.38]

1995

January

• Secret Service Chicago destroys all of its records of the 1963 Chicago plot to kill President Kennedy, after the Assassination Records Review Board requests access to them. [9.218]

May 26

• Theodore H. White releases to the public his notes from his interview of Jacqueline Kennedy on November 29, 1963. This is the first time the world learned her comments about seeing a piece of John Kennedy's skull detaching from his head. [9.460]

(month unknown)

• Dr. David W. Mantik tests the President Kennedy autopsy skull X-rays, and determines them to be composites, a patch ove the original X-Ray to cover the rear part of the skull. [9.284]
• Penguin releases the book "The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: A Comprehensive Photographic Record" by Robert Groden. [3.120]

October 31

• The Assassinations Records Review Board contacts Richard Case Nagell, seeking access to documents on the President Kennedy assassination. [9.157]

November 1

• Richard Case Nagell is found dead in his home in Los Angeles, California. (An autopsy concludes he died of a heart attack. Nagell was a KGB/CIA double agent who knew of Lee Harvey Oswald being set up as a patsy for the assassination of President Kennedy.) [9.157]

1997

• Arcade Publishing releases the book "Assignment Oswald: From the FBI agent assigned to investigate Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the JFK assassination" by James P. Hosty Jr. and Thomas Hosty. [3.146]

1998

• Bancroft releases the book "Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK" by Gus Russo. [3.142]

1999

• Arcade Publishing releases the book "Sons and Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy", by Richard Mahoney. [3.138]

2000

• Open Court releases the book "Murder in Dealey Plaza: What We Know Now that We Didn't Know Then" by James H. Fetzer. [3.108]

2001

• The US Government releases court reporter's stenographic tape of Jacqueline Kennedy's Warren Commission testimony. For the first time, the public learns of her testimony revealing she had said of John Kennedy's head wound "I could see a piece of his skull sort of wedge shaped like that, and I remember it was flesh colored with little ridges at the top". (This information had not been revealed in 1964 or 1972.) [9.460]

2003

• Algora Publishing releases the book "Conspiracy in Camelot: A Complete History of the John Fitzgerald Assassination" by Jerome A. Kroth. [3.140]
• WND Books releases the book "Triangle of Death: The Shocking Truth About the Role of South Vietnam and the French Mafia in the Assassination of JFK" by Bradley S. O'Leary and L.E. Seymour. [3.140]

2005

• Last Hurrah Press releases the book "The Guns of Texas Are Upon You" by Walk Brown. [3.102]

2007

• Free Press releases the book "Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years" by David Talbot. [3.149]
• Dreamland Productions releases the DVD "The Last Testament of E. Howard Hunt", directed by Saint-John Hunt. [3.149]
• Charles Harrelson dies in prison of heart disease. (Harrelson had been identified as one of the "three tramps" found in a stationary train car near the scene of the Kennedy assassination, and briefly detained by Dallas police.) [7.125]

2008

• University Press of Kansas releases book "Our Man in Mexico" by Jefferson Morley and Michael Scott. [3.120]
• Counterpoint releases the book "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" by Lamar Waldran and Thom Hartmann. [3.139]
• Skyhorse Publishing of New York releases the book "Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK" by John Newman. [3.144]

2009

• Douglas P. Horne releases the book "Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK" by Douglas P. Horne. [3.88]

2010

• Dog Ear releases the book "JFK, The Analysis of a Shooting: The Ultimate Ballistics Truth Exposed" by Orlando Martin. [3.107]
• Release of the book "Hear No Evil: Social Constructivism & the Forensic Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination" by Donald Byron Thomas. [3.105]

July 27

• Notarized statement of William Robert Plumlee, Army Military Intelligence, CIA: "Lee Harvey Oswald was a Millitary Intelligence operative." "I co-piloted a flight that infiltrated a Military Intelligence team into Dallas on the morning of November 22, 1963, in an attempt to abort the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." "Shortky after the limo turned from Houston Street and came into our view, Sergio and I both head at least four shots, very distinctly from our vantage point on the south knoll. Two of theose shots were very close together, basically on top of each other." "One of the shots was also from a different direction than the others: one came from the southwest, meaning from the front of the limosine, not the rear." [3.111]

2012

• Prometheus releases the book "Head Shot: The Science Behind the JFK Assassination" by G. Paul Chambers. [3.108]

2016

• James Files is paroled from prison. [4.38]

2017

July 24

• US National Archives begins releasing John Kennedy assassination investigation records. [4.4]

1948-1962

1963

1964-end