Politics & Government

Evidence Points to Oswald Shooting JFK on His Own, Says Stillwater Expert

U.S. District Judge John Tunheim led the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s.

A Stillwater man steeped in the records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago Friday urges other to look to the facts. 

See also: Where Were You the Day JFK Was Shot?

"The real evidence overwhelmingly supports the fact that Oswald did the shooting alone," U.S. District Judge John Tunheim of Stillwater told the annual meeting of the Washington County Historical Society in Stillwater in September, KSTP-TV reported. Tunheim was the event's guest speaker on the topic Kennedy Assassination: Myths and Reality 50 Years Later.

President Bill Clinton appointed Tunheim and four other citizensto serve as members of the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, and he served the board's chairman. Their job, according to Congress' authorizing legislation, was "to ensure and facilitate the review, transmission to the Archivist, and public disclosure of Government records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”

You can see the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board's final report in Scribd window or PDF above, or at the National Archives website

Also in the window above, see KSTP's report on Tunheim's talk in Stillwater in September and hear Tunheim discuss the Kennedy Assassination on Minnesota Public Radio's Daily Circuit program on Thursday (JFK section starts at about the 24:30 mark of the archived audio). 

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