Just 60 years ago, on November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. After all these years, the mystery is still unsolved and many questions remain unanswered. Gray areas that American amateur investigators are still trying to solve, clarifying them through in-depth research.
Chad Nagle wasn’t even born when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. However, the American spends several hours a day going through all available documents related to the former president’s death. For example, he sits in front of his computer and shows our camera a CIA document containing an agent’s code name. Essentially, Chad isn’t an investigator, he’s a communications consultant. “I’m quite a newbie, but I found a document about an agent and based on those recommendations, others discovered other documents. Finding it had a snowball effect,” he says.
Authorities never bothered to find a motive for Kennedy’s assassination.
Authorities never bothered to find a motive for Kennedy’s assassination.
Chad Nagle
Like Chad, there are hundreds of amateur inspectors across America trying to resolve the questions surrounding the death of the 35th President of the United States. And there are still a lot of them. “The authorities never bothered to find a motive for Kennedy’s assassination. They limit themselves to repeating: ‘It is certain that he is the perpetrator. And he acted alone,’” Chad points out with an example. Their research is made possible in particular by the release of documents by the American government. There are five million pages that can be viewed in the National Archives or on the Internet.
Jefferson Morley also conducts his investigations from his small home in Washington. A former Washington Post journalist, he writes a daily blog based on his research called “JFK Facts.” “It’s a daily timeline of everything that happened in 1963,” he explains. Jefferson is particularly interested in the past of Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s suspected assassin. “Oswald appeared in Mexico six weeks before the assassination attempt. He tried to get a visa at the Cuban consulate and the Soviet embassy. This caught the attention of the CIA, who wrote a report. It states that Oswald is a former Marine who lived in Mexico in the USSR. In short, they say, ‘Don’t worry about this guy,'” he says.
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Why does this story still fascinate America so much 60 years later? For Jefferson Morley it was “a catastrophe” with all the speculation that went with it. “A president was killed in broad daylight. Who did this? “Why did the government lie?” he asks.
These enthusiasts are now hoping for the entire Kennedy archive to be released, even though experts say the remaining documents do not contain any explosive revelations.
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