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☆ The biggest bombshells from Michael Cohen's testimony were all in Trump's own words
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

But in his under-oath testimony for Trump's criminal trial Monday, Cohen placed Trump firmly in the room where it happened. AdvertisementIn 2015, Trump told Cohen he would run for president. When Cohen told Trump about it, his response was, "She's really beautiful," Cohen said. According to Cohen, Trump's goal was to postpone the payment until after the November 2016 election, at which point he didn't think it would matter. "I used quite a few expletives," complaining to Weisselberg, Cohen told jurors.

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☆ Trump keeps returning to his birther playbook
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Zachary Wolf | Analysis Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Trump has also baselessly questioned whether Vice President Kamala Harris, whose parents are immigrants, was eligible. Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who Trump also bested in that 2016 primary with taunts of “Little Marco,” also again endorsed Trump this week. It is actually Trump who faces more legitimate questions about his eligibility under the 14th Amendment. It is not true, as he alleges, that Democrats can take part in the GOP primary. “You have a group of people coming in that are not Republicans, and it’s artificially boosting her numbers here,” Trump said.

Persons: Donald Trump’s playbook, Barack Obama, Hussein, Trump, Kamala Harris, Ted Cruz, John F, Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Cruz, Trump’s, Sen, Marco Rubio, “ Little Marco, ”, Nikki Haley, Haley, “, ” Haley, Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Jeff Zeleny, “ He’s, Nia, Malika Henderson, ” Henderson, Haley’s, ” Trump, E, Jean Carroll, Carroll, Utah Sen, Mitt Romney, Romney, CNN’s Manu Raju, Biden, Donald Trump, ” Romney, Raju Organizations: CNN, White, GOP, Republican, National Enquirer, Florida Republican, Trump, South, United Nations, Supreme, Florida Gov, Bloomberg, CNN New Locations: Texas, Cuba, Iowa, Florida, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Maine, Colorado, CNN New Hampshire, Utah

People still flock to Dealey Plaza, which the presidential motorcade was passing through when Kennedy was killed. “I was just with a great mass of other reporters, just trying to find any bit of information,” she said. “As an AP reporter, you just go for the phone, you can’t process anything at that point,” she said. Simpson's recollections are included in an oral history collection at the Sixth Floor Museum that now includes about 2,500 recordings, according to Fagin. Many of the more recent ones have been with people who were children in the '60s and remembered hearing about the assassination while at school.

Persons: —, John F, Kennedy, Peggy Simpson, “, ” Simpson, ”, Stephen Fagin, Lee Harvey, Simpson, Clint Hill, Ella Wright, ” Wright, Fagin, Lee Harvey Oswald, Oswald, Jack Ruby, Ruby, didn’t, ” Fagin Organizations: DALLAS, Associated Press, Dealey Plaza, Texas, . Secret, National Geographic, The Dallas Times, AP, Sixth, Museum Locations: Dallas, “ JFK, America, Austin, Dealey

☆ Why we’re still learning new things about the JFK assassination
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

According to the Warren Commission, the intact bullet was discovered when it was knocked onto the floor next to a stretcher holding Connally. There are differing positions on what to make of Landis’ memoirJefferson Morley edits a substack newsletter, JFK Facts, that pushes for more transparency in the official record on the Kennedy assassination. Farris Rookstool III is a former FBI analyst who reviewed Kennedy assassination documents. They’ve got the Warren Commission report, which most people now feel was incomplete and rushed. And he made an important point that extends well beyond the Kennedy assassination.

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☆ Fact Check-Image shows Stephen King cover art, not a real article saying JKF survived assassination
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Cover art that featured on the back of a Stephen King novel is circulating online with the false claim that it shows an authentic news article reporting that U.S. President John F. Kennedy survived his assassination in 1963. Examples of the image shared online can be seen (here) and (here). A search for the image shows that it featured in an article published by the SFGATE in 2015 reporting on a TV series based on the novel (here). Authentic headlines published in 1963 reporting on Kennedy’s assassination can be seen in The Connecticut Post and Business Insider (here), (here). The image does not show an authentic news article reporting that John F. Kennedy survived his assassination and instead, shows cover art that featured on the back of Stephen King’s novel, “11/22/63.”This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

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☆ Biden’s ‘Final’ Order on Kennedy Files Leaves Some Still Wanting More
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Peter Baker | More About Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On June 22, 1962, an intelligence official drafted a memo summarizing a letter intercepted between Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother. The memo was made public long ago. Now it can finally be told: According to an unredacted copy of the memo released recently by the government, the official who intercepted Oswald’s mail for the C.I.A. in the months before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated was named Reuben Efron. Going forward, agencies will decide any future disclosures that may be warranted by the passage of time.

Persons: Lee Harvey Oswald, John F, Kennedy, Reuben Efron, Oswald, Biden Organizations: Congress

☆ Trump claims he'll declassify all of the JFK-related assassination records if he's reelected. He said the same thing in 2016, but ended up siding with the CIA and FBI to keep the documents secret.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But as president, he sided with the CIA and FBI in continuing to shield some records from the public. "When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination related documents," Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth. In 2017, Trump oversaw the release of over 19,000 documents but eventually broke a promise to fully release the remaining material. Siding with the CIA and FBI, Trump eventually kicked the can on the remaining records to 2021. The constant drip of records flies into the face of the spirit of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.

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☆ I Knew Oswald, and He Acted Alone
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Paul Roderick Gregory | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Less than a year after John F. Kennedy ’s assassination, the Warren Commission released its findings to the public: JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald , who acted alone. The new tranche of files the National Archives released last week contains nothing that calls that conclusion into question. When the Warren report came out in September 1964, some 80% agreed with its finding that Oswald acted alone. Today more than 60% don’t believe Oswald acted alone. One of the most amusing, in an effort to shift the blame from the leftist Oswald, lists my father and me as part of a White Russian conspiracy.

☆ Biden releases most JFK assassination records — but withholds thousands
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

“We’re 59 years after President John Kennedy was killed and there’s just no justification for this,” said Judge John H. Tunheim, who from 1994-98 chaired the Assassination Records Review Board that was established Under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which Biden voted for when it passed Congress unanimously. Many of those Joannides records were never put in the National Archives' JFK collection, according to the foundation's lawsuit, so the lion's share of the suspected records were not released Thursday. CIA officials dispute the number of Joannides records in their possession, but they confirmed two were scheduled to be released Thursday. Under the JFK records act, all documents related to the assassination were supposed to be released by 2017. His poll also showed that 71% of voters thought Biden should release all of the JFK records, regardless of agency opposition.

However, the latest cache will be useful for historians focusing on the events around the assassination. Thousands of books, articles, TV shows and films have explored the idea that Kennedy’s assassination was the result of an elaborate conspiracy. Many of the documents released on Thursday belonged to the Central Intelligence Agency, including several that focused on Oswald's movements and his contacts. Other documents focus on requests from the Warren Commission investigating the assassination. In 2017, then-President Donald Trump released a cache of records, but decided to release the remaining documents on a rolling basis.

☆ More than 70% of voters in poll want Biden to release secret JFK assassination records
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, first postponed the disclosure in 2017, when the records were supposed to be fully released under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Half of voters believe the assassination involved multiple conspirators while 38 percent said Oswald was the lone gunman, the poll showed. The CIA has played a central role in covering up information about the JFK assassination over the years. Immediately after JFK’s assassination, Oswald was identified as a pro-Castro sympathizer, thanks to news articles and documentation that arose when he came into contact with Joannides' group. And they relate to covert programs in which George Joannides was involved,” Morley said in an interview.

☆ Ted Cruz claimed on 'The View' that his wife Heidi laughed when Trump insulted her looks back in 2016
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ted Cruz said his wife, Heidi Cruz, laughed off Donald Trump's insult about her looks. On "The View" on Monday, host Ana Navarro asked Cruz about Trump's 2016 insult. In response to Trump's 2016 insult, Cruz hit back at Trump on Twitter, writing: "Donald, real men don't attack women. In July 2016, Cruz said he would not back Trump "like a servile puppy dog" after insults to his family. In October 2018, Trump called Cruz "Beautiful Ted," a sharp turn from his campaign trail nickname for the senator, "Lying Ted."

☆ 'What are they hiding?': Group sues Biden and National Archives over JFK assassination records
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

The country's largest online source of JFK assassination records is suing President Joe Biden and the National Archives to force the federal government to release all remaining documents related to the most mysterious murder of a U.S. president nearly 60 years ago. “This is about our history and our right to know it,” said Morley, the author of the JFK Facts blog. The National Archives and Records Administration, the agency in charge of the JFK documents, also said it’s complying with the law and the procedures Biden outlined. JFK assassination historian David Talbot, a Trump critic, said he sees an irony in the two cases. Uscinski said he’s hesitant to draw a direct line between lack of trust in the government and the refusal to release the JFK records, but he argued the feds essentially have themselves to blame.

The Biden administration on Wednesday released over 1,000 previously classified documents relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The 1,491 documents include filings from the CIA, FBI, State Department and other federal agencies. The documents say they spoke about Oswald's efforts to get a visa to go to the Soviet Union. Under a 1992 law inspired by the Oliver Stone movie "JFK," the National Archives was supposed to have released all of the remaining classified records by October 2017. The National Archives released a large tranche of documents that month, but held back others at the request of then-President Donald Trump.

☆ How to Botch an Assassination Investigation
▼ + stars: | 1963-11-22 | by ( Thomas J. Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThe assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, shocked the nation. It brought justifiable scrutiny on the law enforcement agencies that should have prevented it as well as those that investigated it. One lesson law enforcement learned from Dallas and its aftermath is how not to investigate an assassination. The Kennedy investigation devolved into a fiasco. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, the Dallas police and sheriff offices all argued with each other.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O'Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly The, John F, Kennedy, Warren Commission’s, Lee Harvey Oswald, Oswald Organizations: Getty, Zuma, Texas, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Service, Dallas Locations: Dallas

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