JFK's Assassination: What We Learned in 2024
Pleading ignorance of the new evidence demonstrates the 'lone gunman' theory is defunct
What we learned in 2024 was that the “lone gunman” theory persists in the mainstream media and Wikipedia despite continuing revelations from the new JFK files that undermine the official story and the emergence of Artificial Intelligence chatbots that offer a more nuanced understanding of November 22.
We saw Robert F. Kennedy make the JFK files a central part of his independent bid for President. We saw Donald Trump narrowly avoid assassination and, when RFK Jr. joined his campaign, we heard his promise to release all the JFK files. With Trump’s victory, we saw new possibilities (and perils) to the cause of full JFK disclosure.
All told, JFK Facts published 309 posts in 2024 about all aspects of the JFK story, enlarging readers’ understand of November 22, 1963 and its relevance today.
Case closed?
Not at the CIA. In 2024, we learned that the CIA itself did not believe the lone gunman theory. After President Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, top officials at the CIA station in Miami investigated Cuban exiles known to the Agency—not Oswald, not Fidel Castro, not the KGB—for orchestrating the ambush in Dealey Plaza. The results of this internal investigation of JFK’s murder have never been made public.
Stephen Jaffe, a former investigator for New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, told the JFK Facts podcast that French president Charles De Gaulle didn’t believe the official story and instructed his intelligence service to assist Garrison’s investigation.
“There’s no new evidence”
In fact, JFK files released in 2024 shows that the CIA lied to the Warren Commission when two top officials testified under oath the Agency had only “minimal” information about Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, before JFK was killed. JFK Facts revealed that, on the day JFK was killed, the CIA already had a 181 page dossier on his supposed assassin.
Either top CIA officers were extraordinarily negligent when it came to Kennedy’s killer or they were running an operation to transform Oswald into what we said he was: a “patsy” for others who committed the crime for which was blamed.
“Somebody would have talked”
More than one somebody did. James Sibert, the veteran FBI agent who attended JFK’s autopsy, told a friend it was obvious the president been killed by a gunshot from the front.
Secret Service whistleblower Abraham Bolden, the first person to call attention to official misconduct related to the assassination, talked about a plot of kill JFK in Chicago.
Watergate burglar Howard Hunt made some murky comments about JFK’s assassination, and Eric Hamburg, producer of the movie “Nixon,” found reason to believe some of what he said.
“There’s no JFK whistleblower”
In fact, a former CIA contract employee told JFK Facts that the Agency maintained a secret archive of JFK assassination records in a Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF) in a CIA office building in Herndon Virginia. The whistleblower spoke out, he said, because he “saw something that disturbed him.”
Asked to comment on the JFK Facts report, the CIA did not deny it.
“Nobody cares about that anymore”
Think again. Kendrick Lamar, the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show headliner, weaves the JFK story into African-American history on his 2015 Grammy-winning album, “To Pimp a Butterfly.” In 2020 Bob Dylan’s take on November 22, “Murder Most Foul” rose to number one on Billboard’s list of Top 100 downloads. Since 2023 Rob Reiner and Soledad O’Brien’s podcast, Who Killed JFK? has been downloaded 9 million times.
“Mainstream news organizations couldn’t all be wrong about JFK”
Yet JFK Facts pointed out that the BBC’s coverage amounted to “journalistic malpractice.” The New York Times solicited and then rejected David Talbot’s cogent case against the official theory. And the Times and the Washington Post proved incapable of understanding the late Donald Sutherland and his scene-stealing role in Oliver Stone’s JFK.
“The government was just doing CYA (Cover Your Ass).”
In fact, Chad Nagle’s revelatory series showed that JFK’s assassination was followed by a trail of destruction of relevant evidence by a wide variety of actors atop the federal government. Only the willfully naive will regard such a pattern of misconduct as exculpatory. Common sense suggests it is incriminating. After all, if the evidence supported the official theory of a motiveless “lone gunman” why would anyone have destroyed it?
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The biggest mistake we’re making collectively as Americans is failing to indict and prosecute Ruth Paine. I’m pretty sure there’s no statute of limitation for accessory to murder. Paine clearly was unwitting of the murder at the time of the murder. But obviously she knows everything about how Oswald was set up to take the blame both before the murder and after. Yet she has denied this for 60 years.
The DOJ could use every trick in the book to get her to divulge what she knows. She could be offered immunity and she could testify in “executive session” (because everything she knows is undoubtedly “classified”). We should not let this opportunity evaporate.
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I know you probably think that I am a pain in the ###, Jefferson, but I do appreciate all that you have done for this case, plus your ability (unlike a lot of the research community) to present the case for conspiracy with honesty, coherence, and clarity.