why can t we see them more than 50 years after the assassination? why is president trump going back on his pledge to release everything? tom foreman has been diving into the jfk files for us. he s here now with all the latest details. tom, hello to you. you have been digging through all these files. what have you uncovered so far? well, i ve uncovered a terrific team of people here helping me dig because i couldn t possibly do it. look at this, look at this, don, this is just one of these files, this is 14 pages of handwritten notes. this gives you an idea of how hard it s going to be for everyone to sort through all of this stuff. what we have found is that almost immediately, the authorities were trying to cover an almost endless number of leads and ideas out there. for example, they were following at one point former member of the national states rights party because he was making a speech in florida in january after the assassination, detailing how he believed ruby, jack ruby, wh
named candy cane saying kitty had been an associate of jack ruby s who killed oswald. chuck grassley tweeted this morning, thanks for the kennedy files release. ridiculous that the cia wants to review to redact. you had 50 years. now cia wants further cover-up, potus, stop. joining us to talk about this from dallas, alexandra, the granddaughter a personal history of the sabrudder film. lee harvey oswald and assassination of jfk. this deadline has been known for 25 years, kennedy died 54 years ago. why don t we have all the files? because the fbi and cia especially intelligence agencies are very good at playing this game of knowing how to hold back
that time with oswald. it was a wrestling match down in the basement. one detective picked me up and threw me off my feet and i had to finally regain my footing and begin the report as best i could what was happening there in the police basement. ruby had gotten in by just a very strange quirk of fate. he had timestamped a telegram only three or four minutes before, before he fired and killed oswald. so he had gotten into the basement, although the security that morning had been very seriously strengthened and i had gotten all of us reporters out of the basement and show our i.d.s as we came back in. i was impressed that morning by the fact that the security at