Posted on 02/20/2025 8:44:48 AM PST by DFG
A former Chicago mobster who claims to have killed President John F Kennedy says that President Donald Trump's plan to release the files tied to the assassination will only yield more 'lies'.
James Files, 83, claims he fired the bullet that killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963 from behind a fence on the grassy knoll overlooking Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
He says the other shot that struck Kennedy was fired by his boss, Charles 'Chuckie' Nicoletti, who was hiding out in the book depository - the same place Lee Harvey Oswald is believed to have been at the time of the shooting.
Files and his team of mafia hitmen, who he claims were recruited and trained by the CIA, packed up their weapons and fled the scene just seconds after the fatal shot was fired, he alleges.
The mobster first claimed to have killed JFK in the 1990s, while he was jailed for the attempted murder of two police officers. His account of Kennedy's assassination has been widely dismissed over the years.
Now, after Trump signed an executive order authorizing the release of remaining classified JFK records, Files has once again doubled down on his claim that he 'took the fatal shot' that killed Kennedy.
He has also warned that despite Trump's order, intelligence officials are unlikely to change their stance on the case and claims that 'a hundred years from now they will still say that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and there was no conspiracy'.
'The government tells a lie, they have to live the lie. I don't think Trump will get any further than what's already been disclosed,' Files told The Times, alleging the 'CIA has lied to the American public for 61 years' and is not suddenly going to say 'we're sorry, we lied to you'.
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He’s the one.
‘Cause old mobsters never lie.
/sarc
This isn’t the same guy who shot Jessie James and William Bonny is it?
This just proves that anyone can say anything.
Why then did Oswald kill officer JD Tippet that had stopped him for questioning?
He’s either:
1. A nutcase.
2. Looking for a place in the history books.
3. Telling the Truth.
4. All of the above.................
He would have been 20-21 years old at the time.
That’s a big job for even the mafia to give to a kid.
You’ll need to ask Brian Williams
You wouldn’t know who shot Liberty Valence, would you Jimmy?
All I need to know from this nut-job.
The kill shot was both or either shot from a nearby sewer grate, with 2 young kids willing to go the short distance thru the sewer system, and the driver (in the zapruder, you can see him turn back for a view of JFK).
So,if it was this guy, he says 'behind the fence' because for some reason he didn't want to say as a kid he crawled thru human sewage? I dunno, perhaps...
Actually...the truth is that I assassinated Pres. Kennedy when I was six years old. I was hiding on the grassy knoll that day and I was an infant prodigy in marksmanship.
It was Oswald
Of all the crazy theories out there, not the least of which is the ‘Magic Bullet’ Theory, his sounds the most plausible.
CIA involved, Gangsters involved, Patsy set up, Open Air car , everything adds up.
Same thing they did with James Earl Ray with the MLK assassination. The FBI set him up as the patsy...........
The ‘mafia’ at the time would include CIA. Who controlled who was muddled. Add wealthy oil types and banksters. Add GHWB and LBJ too.
Anyways, as you say mafia, they would not be giving “a big job” just to a kid, as there were 2 kids in the sewer grate, and about 6 others in various windows around the plaza (all sighted by bystanders and dismissed by the Warren commission).
“That’s a big job for even the mafia to give to a kid.”
Back in the early 1960s, 20-21 years olds weren’t so young...not like today. Remember how old the young men and boys were when they fought and defeated Hitler in WWII.
LOL, perhaps the only innocent guy in all of the Plaza that day.
This is just fun for them at this point.
Well, one thing for sure....whether it’s true or not...that’s a hell of a bar story. 😏
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