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Running down a footnote to assassination By Colleen Cason November 23, 2003 In the one day and four decades since President Kennedy died in Dallas, we Americans have been served a cafeteria of conspiracy theories. Almost nothing is too tough for some to swallow. They take heaping helpings of the Mafia and CIA, garnish with an evil cabal of Texas businessmen and sprinkle on LBJ and Castro. Advertisement A recent ABC News poll indicates 70 percent of Americans believe JKF's assassination was a plot. Only 22 percent accept the official finding that Lee Oswald acted alone. Most Americans favor conspiracy...

Big>Killing of Kennedy may have derailed Cuba pact By Julian Borger in Washington November 27, 2003 Days before his assassination, president John F. Kennedy was planning a meeting with Cuban officials to negotiate the normalisation of relations with Fidel Castro, a declassified tape and White House documents reveal. The rapprochement was cut off in Dallas 40 years ago by Lee Harvey Oswald, who appears to have believed he was assassinating the president in the interests of the Cuban revolution. But the new evidence suggests Dr Castro saw Kennedy's killing as a setback. He sought a dialogue with the next administration,...