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A famed doctor who investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy lifted the veil of President Donald Trump’s mandate to declassify the assassination files.
“The various conspiracy theories and other criticisms of the investigation continued and arose after our report and have been amplified by the fact that the entire report was never released by the investigation conducted by Congress,” forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden told Fox News Digital. “Expectations are that the 14,000 documents that will be released by President Trump may shed a light on the various mistakes or disinformation that have circulated since.”
Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at declassifying government documents on the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
“A lot of people were waiting for this… for years, for decades,” Trump said in signing the release of the documents. “Everything will be revealed.”
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while visiting Dallas in 1963. (Associated Press)
Questions on Oswald’s Motivation to Kill
Dr. Baden said that he is confident that the conclusions the Select Committee on Assassinations made in 1977 still ring true. The committee concluded that it “really was” Oswald and that Kennedy was shot twice, both from behind.
“I don’t think that there will be anything found that would be contrary to our subcommittee’s finding about the cause of the president’s death and how he was shot. But there may be material that would support our diagnosis,” he said.Â
“But the other and maybe overriding concern is who put Oswald up to it,” said Dr. Baden. “There’s a feeling on whether the CIA or other governmental agencies or the mafia or another country like Cuba or Russia was involved, and that could contain embarrassing information about what people were doing that led up to the murder of the president or in the cover-up.”
“This could all be clarified by looking at the 14,000 documents and seeing if there is any additional information that shows that anybody else was involved or that somebody didn’t do their job correctly,” he said.
