What if James Files shot JFK , like he said ?

[Matt Grantham]

Files said he shot Kennedy from behind the fence.
On whose behalf did he say that he pulled the trigger?
If he said he was alone ..that is pure bunk.

There were capable gunmen and accomplices behind the fence.
Enough mention has been made about that.

According to the Files confession, the JFK assassination was carried out by
Chicago mob hit man, Charles "Chuckie" Nicoletti on orders from boss Sam
Giancana. ".(Richard) Cain and Nicoletti were actual gunmen for the hit."
wrote Giancana's brother Chuck in his 1992 book Double Cross (pp. 334-335).
Files said the hit team originally was to be Nicoletti and mobster Johnny
Roselli. Files himself was only to have transported weapons to Dallas and
acted as driver. But, according to Files, Roselli arrived in Dallas early on
the morning of November 22, 1963, by means of a "military flight". Roselli
said the CIA had sent an "abort team" to Dallas to stop the assassination
and he declined to participate saying they would all be killed. Undaunted by
Roselli's fears, Nicoletti decided to move ahead with the carefully-laid
plans and so asked Files --- a man who had been his driver and confederate
in several other jobs --- to back him up. Many critics have questioned why
Files at such a young age and not being a "made" Mafia man would have been
included on something as important as the JFK assassination. This is a very
good question but it appears answered in this account of Files' last-minute
substitution after Roselli suddenly backed out, fearful of being killed by
an "abort team".

[Matt Grantham]

 Here is some material on the two casings found years later


http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/radtruth.htm

From Rich Pope

the stamp on the end of the casing indicated the bullets were manufactured after the year 1971 because Remmington had changed them that year.

From Dave Perry

 These shells are Remington 222 bullets the shells date back to the year 1963. Dating is through the manufacturer and through the technique called terminus post quem dating.

[Jerry Freeman]

What was Files wearing?
This deaf man revealed that he saw two guys behind the fence from the other side of the highway at the time of the shooting.
Of course, the FBI did not believe him.

[Mike Orr]

Files has told his story and you either believe him or not . I think the facts of the JFK assassination are known only by a small # of people who are very old and that is because of the 50 to 75 years of holding the JFK files from being seen and gone over . If there are people who have gone over these files that have been released and can put together certain aspects of what happened on Nov. 22nd 1963 . I think Jim Marrs said it best when asked if we will ever know the facts about JFK's demise and Jim said we already know . What I've noticed over my lifetime and I'm 70 years old , is that no matter what stand you take , there will always be someone who refutes what you say while they tell you , No , it did not happen that way , Ct's , Ln's , Republicans , Democrats and so on . I was not in Dallas that day so everything I've heard or read about is all 2nd hand news . What always seemed odd to me was why in the world would anyone try to shoot the POTUS with a Mannlicher Carcano of which the Italians themselves had labeled ' The Humane weapon ' because of it's in-accuracy ! I don't know if Files killed JFK or not but I would put my money on him over LHO in the break room with a coke in his hand .

[Jack Trojan]

Like the HSCA, I am convinced the JFK assassination was a conspiracy and it's just a matter of figuring out how they did it. We must start with the assumption that this was a coup d'etat and go from there. Every good coup d'etat needs a patsy and Oswald was it. He had no prints on the murder weapons, his scope wasn't sighted-in, he was found at the wrong place to be the assassin, he got a job 3 weeks before the motorcade route handed JFK to him on a silver platter, there isn't a viable trajectory for the MB to have done what it did then magically show up unscathed on the wrong gurney, and on and freakin on.

The DPD were obviously sheep-dipping Oswald and their handling of the evidence was proof that they were involved in the cover up. You have to ignore such a mountain of circumstantial evidence to be a LNer that they are more WC defenders than LN theorists. They are Conspiracy Deniers foremost because a whole lot of denial is required to stick with the fringe LN hypothesis.

As far as speculating who the actual conspirators/assassins were, the skeptics paint E. Howard Hunt's confession along with James Files claims. They think that dirty rats can't be trusted to tell the truth period. But what was in it for Hunt to confess? It wasn't a badge of honor assassinating the beloved JFK. It could only bring shame to his family to sell out for a book deal. Files didn't even have that option. He was pretty much ignored and written off as nuttier than Oswald himself. But he gave 3 details that made me sit up and take notice:

1) He claimed that he used a Remington Fireball that shot .222 caliber frangible bullets. The Fireball was the best weapon of its kind back in 63 and perfect for the job. And if JFK's head was not struck by a frangible bullet then I'll eat a bug!

Files' shot from the knoll caused a right temple blowout and you can see the fireball in JFK's head at Z frame 317. That is NOT sunlight reflecting off of brain matter. Deny this at your peril.



2) He claimed that the turkey shoot was intended to make near simultaneous shots sound like 1 and that his shot happened a split second after another shot had struck JFK in the head from the front (back then to the left), which is what the Z film shows.



3) He claimed to have bit a dent into the shell casing and dropped it at the site so he could claim bragging rights when someone found it. There was a spent .222 casing found at the site in 1987 by John Rademacher and it matched his description exactly. Analysis of the hull estimated it had likely been in the ground for 24 years as claimed. Skeptics scoff this off as an obvious hoax, but that's because they are conspiracy denialists 1st and critical thinkers 2nd.



Given the original assumption that this was a conspiracy and Oswald was not a LN, IMO James Files is an excellent candidate to be one of the shooters, of which there were several.

[Jerry Freeman]

If Files was actually involved...he would not have survived prison.

[Rick Plant]

Anybody can make a claim. Proving it is another thing.