Week in Review: De Gaulle on the Killing, and a New Series on JFK in the Movies

Charles de Gaulle thought JFK's assassination was a coup d'état. Plus: an exploration of Hollywood's approach to the JFK case and a chat with investigator Dan Hardway.

An image from the trailer of the 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove.” While the movie was not about JFK’s assassination, it was intertwined with the story in many ways. JFK Facts’ Chad Nagle writes about the Stanley Kubrick classic in the first installment of a five-part series about Hollywood’s treatment of the JFK case. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons.)

JFK, RFK and de Gaulle — in English and en Français

This week JFK Facts delved into a story that emerged from newly released JFK files about Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s comments to French President Charles de Gaulle in 1963 — and what de Gaulle thought of the assassination of his friend and rival John F. Kennedy. The gist: RFK told de Gaulle the killing was a coup d'état, and de Gaulle shared that sentiment.

JFK Facts editor Jefferson Morley partnered on the story with Bernard Le Grelle, author of the forthcoming book, “Two Brothers Executed, My Lifetime Quest for the Truth About the Kennedy Assassinations,” which details his efforts to investigate the killings of JFK and RFK.

In a first on JFK Facts, the article was simultaneously published in French, as we offered: “Pour la version française de cette histoire, veuillez cliquer ici.”

Read the story in English here. Read the story in French here.

The JFK Assassination in the Movies: A New Series

Movie buffs are already eagerly anticipating upcoming installments in Chad Nagle’s new six-part series on the treatment of JFK’s assassination in Hollywood and the movie industry abroad. Oliver Stone’s 1991 “JFK” created the most impact, resulting in the passage of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. But there have been many other portrayals and more subtle references to the assassination on the silver screen. Nagle’s first story on Saturday focused on the 1960s. More to come!

Echoes of Dallas: Six Decades of JFK on the Silver Screen, Pt. 1

FYI: I checked to see if these films are available for streaming, and indeed most are on Amazon Prime, YouTube, etc., but often with rental fees.

JFK Investigator’s Path to Congressional Witness

JFK Facts has continued to report on the recent congressional testimony of JFK-connected citizens, including Dan Hardway, who was an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the late ‘70s. As Jefferson Morley wrote:

Dan Hardway was perhaps the most powerful and precise witness to testify at a hearing of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s Task Force of the Declassification of Federal Secrets, May 20, 2025.

Watch Hardway’s testimony here and catch up on our videos on the JFK Facts YouTube channel.

Morley spoke with Hardway on the JFK Facts podcast about his path from JFK assassination investigator to congressional witness — and how he got stonewalled by an undercover CIA man named George Joannides. Subscribe to JFK Facts and join the conversation.

JFK Facts Podcast #113: Dan Hardway Talks About His JFK Investigation

Update on the CIA’s Oswald File

For background on the CIA’s file on Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK Facts described an updated version of our exclusive compilation of records related to the alleged assassin.

We also found additional material — namely, attachments and routing slips — that was held in the Oswald file. Our 181-page estimate had to be revised upward. The CIA, it can now be stated with confidence, accumulated 194 pages of material on Oswald before he was arrested for killing the president.

Read the full story here.