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JFK assassination secrets scheduled for 2017 release
The files may shed light on what the CIA knew about assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK’s death

THE TORTURED PATH THAT BEGAN WITH A left turn onto Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963, will find its unlikely end point this October in College Park, Md. At a National Archives annex, the last remaining documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are being processed, scanned and readied for release.

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