James Files

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James Earl Files (born January 24, 1942 ) is an American prisoner who claims to have been involved in the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy .

Life

James E. Files was born on January 24, 1942 on a small farm near Oakman ( Walker County, Alabama ), USA. Until 1963 he used the name "Sutton". The family moved to Melrose Park, Illinois in the late 1940s . In 1959 he is said to have joined the United States Army and joined the 82nd US Airborne Division . He was sent to Laos as part of Operation White Star , where he is said to have carried out secret service work. After his release he came into contact with the American Mafia , for which he first worked as a driver and then as a contract killer . His client was Charles Nicoletti . On May 7, 1991, Files got into a gun battle with a police officer and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempted murder. Files is currently a prisoner at Stateville Prison in Illinois .

Alleged involvement in the Kennedy assassination attempt

Files claimed in two interviews in 1994 and 2003 to have fired the fatal shot at the American President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 from the grass hill at Dealey Plaza in Dallas . The clients were Nicoletti and Johnny Roselli .

These claims are not believed by historians, political scientists, and lawyers involved in Kennedy science. Files reports, for example, how he came up with the plan to change the route on which the President's column was supposed to travel through Dallas - but in reality there was no such route change. Also, on the day of the attack, November 22, 1963, Files was demonstrably not in Dallas, but in Chicago . Vincent Bugliosi describes Files as " Rodney Dangerfield the Kennedy assassin", who cannot be taken seriously: Even of the authors who assume that Kennedy was a victim of a conspiracy , very few believed in his version.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1994: Interview with Bob Vernon ; 2003: Interview with Jim Marrs and Wim Dankbaar
  2. ^ John McAdams: JFK Assassination Logic. How to think about claism of conspiracy. Potomac Books, Lincoln 2011, pp. 194 f.
  3. ^ Vincent Bugliosi: Reclaiming History. The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy . WW Norton & Company, New York 2007, pp. 917 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Files, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Files, James Earl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION alleged contract killer of the mafia
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH near Oakman, Walker County, Alabama , USA