Document 180-10145-10265, released as part of the 2025 JFK files, contains an FBI summary of a phone call placed to the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia, just hours after Lee Harvey Oswald was named the chief suspect in the assassination of President John F....
Document 180-10144-10288, released as part of the 2025 JFK files, captures a fascinating diplomatic moment in the days after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Soviet officials urgently communicated with U.S. contacts, not to explain, but to appeal. Their...
Document 180-10144-10240, part of the 2025 JFK file release, provides an inside look at how Soviet officials reacted in real time to President Kennedy’s assassination. Instead of gloating, they were terrified. Soviet sources feared that Lee Harvey Oswald’s ties...
On July 3, 1961, a U.S. Embassy telegram quietly approved Lee Harvey Oswald’s return from the Soviet Union. Now released as part of the 2025 JFK files in document 194-10002-10187, this short, seemingly procedural message has become a symbol of how Cold War bureaucracy...
Document 180-10144-10240, part of the 2025 JFK file release, captures a rare and immediate reaction from Soviet officials following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Sent by an informant who met directly with Soviet embassy staff, the report reveals a...
In the weeks following JFK’s assassination, Soviet officials scrambled to shape the narrative. Document 180-10144-10133, newly released in the 2025 JFK files, captures an urgent and defensive communication: the KGB emphatically insisted that Lee Harvey Oswald was not...
