07-12-2012, 08:37 PM
MINNEAPOLIS(WCCO) Former Gov Minnesota.Jesse Ventura has lent his high-profile support to an author who says she hasproof Lee Harvey Oswald didn't assassinate President John Kennedy.
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In ChicagoTuesday morning, Ventura called onthe government to release more documents to reveal what he calls the truthabout JFK's killing in 1963.
"My goal is to exonerate Lee Oswald, and also to get justicefor John Kennedy," said author Judyth Baker.
Ventura joinedBaker who claims to have been Lee Harvey Oswald's former girlfriend, and whohas written a book to prove Oswald didn't kill JFK. She says she was Oswald's19-year-old lover in the summer of 1963 and spoke to him just before thekilling.
Baker and Venturasay the government is withholding documents that would reveal the purportedtruth about the assassination.
"If the government were telling the truth, there would be noreason to lock up anything from the people of this country. Clearly they arenot, because here we are 50 years later, and they are still withholdingdocuments from us," said Ventura.
But a prominent federal judge says all the evidence is outthere and the verdict is in. In fact, assassination experts say virtually everyknown document is public.
Minnesota Federal District Judge Jack Tunheim led anindependent fact-finding commission in Washingtonin the 1990s to review, and declassify, millions of pages of documents relatedto the Kennedy assassination.
Tunheim says all but a few of those documents are nowpublic.
"Is there a cache of records someplace? I don't think so. Welooked as far and as wide as we possibly could," said Tunheim. "It would havebeen a violation of law to not turn over records to us for our decision making.I just don't think there was much left."
Tunheim says after many years of seeing all the availableevidence from Oswald's rifle and bullets to Kennedy's autopsy photos to FBIand CIA documents he has not seen anydirect evidence of any kind to change the verdict, which is that Lee HarveyOswald acted alone.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/12/04...shoot-jfk/
In ChicagoTuesday morning, Ventura called onthe government to release more documents to reveal what he calls the truthabout JFK's killing in 1963.
"My goal is to exonerate Lee Oswald, and also to get justicefor John Kennedy," said author Judyth Baker.
Ventura joinedBaker who claims to have been Lee Harvey Oswald's former girlfriend, and whohas written a book to prove Oswald didn't kill JFK. She says she was Oswald's19-year-old lover in the summer of 1963 and spoke to him just before thekilling.
Baker and Venturasay the government is withholding documents that would reveal the purportedtruth about the assassination.
"If the government were telling the truth, there would be noreason to lock up anything from the people of this country. Clearly they arenot, because here we are 50 years later, and they are still withholdingdocuments from us," said Ventura.
But a prominent federal judge says all the evidence is outthere and the verdict is in. In fact, assassination experts say virtually everyknown document is public.
Minnesota Federal District Judge Jack Tunheim led anindependent fact-finding commission in Washingtonin the 1990s to review, and declassify, millions of pages of documents relatedto the Kennedy assassination.
Tunheim says all but a few of those documents are nowpublic.
"Is there a cache of records someplace? I don't think so. Welooked as far and as wide as we possibly could," said Tunheim. "It would havebeen a violation of law to not turn over records to us for our decision making.I just don't think there was much left."
Tunheim says after many years of seeing all the availableevidence from Oswald's rifle and bullets to Kennedy's autopsy photos to FBIand CIA documents he has not seen anydirect evidence of any kind to change the verdict, which is that Lee HarveyOswald acted alone.