Abstract
Although the March 2025 declassification released some 77,000 pages of official documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, it produced no “smoking gun.” The recent eyewitness accounts – one a book and the other a documentary – do provide vital clues about what happened that day in Dallas, Texas, suggested that Kennedy was killed in a crossfire. The article details Mahoney’s own eleven-year search for evidence about the assassination which includes critical attention to the murder of prospective witnesses in the course of official investigations into the Kennedy murder as well as facts about an attempt on the president’s life on December 29, 1962 in Miami, Florida. He also discusses his discovery that Cuban counterintelligence, drawing on the reports of hundreds of its spies in south Florida during the early 1960s, spies who were shadowing Mafia and anti-Castro Cuban operatives endeavoring to assassinate Castro, may have tracked those who were plotting to kill President Kennedy.
Keywords. Crossfire; Autopsy, Witness murder, Mafia, CIA and Anti-Castro Cubans.
JEL. D72; D83; M31; P48; Z18.
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