Lee Harvey Oswald

FILE - Stanislav Shushkevich, opposition leader, answers reporter's questions in his office in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, Oct. 15, 2004 Shushkevich, the former leader of Belarus who led it to independence during the breakup of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 87. Shushkevich died early Wednesday, May 4, 2022, according to his wife. Last month, he was hospitalized for a few days after contracting COVID-19. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Stanislav Shushkevich, post-Soviet leader of Belarus, dies

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Stanislav Shushkevich, who steered Belarus to independence, served as its first leader and is reported to have taught Russian to John F.

FILE — Surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the media as he is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station, Nov. 23, 1963, for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The life insurance policy on the man who assassinated Kennedy paid out less than $900 to his mother, but the death claim she filed to get that sum has sold at auction for almost $80,000. The original Notice of Insurance Claim for Lee Harvey Oswald sold for $79,436 on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Boston-based RR Auction said in a statement. (AP Photo/File)

Lee Harvey Oswald life insurance claim sells at auction

FILE - Mike Cochran poses for a photo on Nov. 15, 2013, at his home in Haltom City, Texas. Cochran, who during a nearly 40-year career with The Associated Press told the stories of Texas' larger-than life characters and who ended up serving as a pallbearer for Lee Harvey Oswald while covering the presidential assassin's funeral, has died. Cochran died late Tuesday night, Jan. 11, 2022, after a long battle with cancer, said longtime friend and former AP executive John O. Lumpkin. He was 85. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

‘One of a kind': Former AP reporter Mike Cochran dies at 85

Part of a file from the CIA, dated Feb. 3, 1968, titled "Mexico City Chronology" about Lee Harvey Oswald's time in Mexico and contact with the embassy of the Soviet Union in Mexico City, that was released on Dec. 15, 2021, and that was part of the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There was no immediate indication that the records contained new revelations that could radically reshape the public's understanding of the events surrounding the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy in Dallas at the hands of gunman Lee Harvey Oswald. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

US releases new batch of documents about JFK assassination

FILE - In this May 12, 2008, file photo, Marie Tippit, the widow of former Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, who was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22, 1963, visits the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, to view her husband's name on the memorial. Marie Tippit who was devoted to helping others, and spent her life focused on God and her family, has died at age 92. Her son said she died Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at a hospital in the East Texas city of Sulphur Springs after being diagnosed with pneumonia following a positive test for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Widow of Dallas officer slain by Lee Harvey Oswald dies

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 1998 file photo, shows Jim Leavelle in Stafford, Kansas holding the iconic 1963 photograph, as he escorted Lee Harvey Oswald moments before he is shot in Dallas. Leavelle, the longtime Dallas lawman has died, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. He was 99. (Sandra J. Milburn/The Hutchinson News via AP)

Jim Leavelle, lawman at Lee Harvey Oswald’s side, dies at 99

DALLAS (AP) — Jim Leavelle, the longtime Dallas lawman who was captured in one of history’s most iconic photographs as he escorted President John F.

Part of a file from the CIA, dated Oct. 10, 1963, details "a reliable and sensitive source in Mexico" report of Lee Harvey Oswald's contact with the Soviet Union embassy in Mexico City, that was released for the first time on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, by the National Archives. Documents show U.S. officials scrambling after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to round up information about Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City weeks earlier. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Latest JFK files say no evidence found of CIA link to Oswald

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released government documents regarding John F. Kennedy’s assassination say allegations that Lee Harvey Oswald was connected to the CIA were “totally unfounded.”

JFK files say rumors of CIA link to Oswald ‘unfounded’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government documents newly released Friday regarding John F. Kennedy’s assassination say allegations that Lee Harvey Oswald was connected to the CIA were “totally unfounded.”

The Latest: JFK files say CIA link to Oswald ‘unfounded’

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This image provided by the Warren Commission is an overhead view of President John F. Kennedy's car in Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, and was the commission's Exhibit No. 698. Special agent Clinton J. Hill is shown riding atop the rear of the limousine. President Donald Trump is caught in a push-pull on new details of Kennedy’s assassination, jammed between students of the killing who want every scrap of information and intelligence agencies that are said to be counseling restraint. Some 2,800 other files on the assassination have now been made public, and they capture the frantic days following the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination.(Warren Commission via AP)

Botulism pills, the CIA, the Mob and the JFK assassination

WASHINGTON (AP) — Botulism pills. Conspiracy theories. What the government might have known and still won’t say about Lee Harvey Oswald.

Traffic streaks past the U. S. National Archive headquarters building early in the morning, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. President Donald Trump announced last week he intendeds to allow the National Archive to release additional classified documents on the assassination of President John F. Kenney. (AP Photos/J. David Ake)

AP Explains: What could be in the long-secret JFK files?

BOSTON (AP) — For decades, the existence of secret government files linked to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination has helped fuel conspiracy theories that others besides Lee Harvey Oswald were involved in his murder.

Mike Cochran poses holding a photo Friday, Nov. 15, 2013, at his home in Haltom City, Texas, that shows him and other reporters serving as pallbearers. On a gloomy November afternoon, I helped carry the inexpensive wooden casket of Lee Harvey Oswald to a grave on a slight rise dotted with dying grass. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Ex-AP writer recalls serving as Oswald pallbearer

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — On a gloomy November afternoon, I helped carry the inexpensive wooden casket of Lee Harvey Oswald to a grave on a slight rise dotted with dying grass.

Dallas police honor detective cuffed to Oswald

DALLAS (AP) — The man in the cowboy hat seen handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald in the iconic photo of Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby was honored Tuesday for his decades of service to the Dallas police force and community.