JFK files: J. Edgar Hoover called killing of Oswald ‘inexcusable’

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Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said it was “inexcusable” that suspected JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed before he could be fully interviewed.

Hoover made the comment in what appeared to be a dictated aide-memoire dated on the afternoon of Nov. 24, 1963, hours after Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. The memo was part of a cache of 2,891 documents released by the National Archives Thursday evening.

“[Oswald’s death] will allow, I am afraid, a lot of civil rights people to raise a lot of hell because he was handcuffed and had no weapon,” Hoover said. “There are bound to be some elements of our society who will holler their heads off that his civil rights were violated — which they were.”

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