DALLAS, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The Dallas County district attorney has released documents that add fuel to conspiracy theories on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
District Attorney Craig Watkins released 12 boxes of items that were locked away in a safe for decades, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram said Tuesday.
"Every (district attorney) to my knowledge had been made aware of the contents of that safe and every (district attorney), until this new administration, decided that it wanted to keep it secret for whatever reason," Watkins said.
Federal investigations determined Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed John F. Kennedy from the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963. Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald two days later while Oswald was being escorted by police officials.
Watkins said one of the items in the boxes is a transcript of an alleged conversation Oswald had with Ruby. Brass knuckles and a gun holster of Ruby's were among the other contents.
The talk between Oswald and Ruby supposedly took place in October, 1963 and makes it look like Oswald carried out the assassination at the request of organized crime.
The boxes were stored at the request of former Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, who served at the time of the assassination. Among other items in the boxes was a movie contract signed by Wade about a film on the assassination. Some observers say the Oswald-Ruby transcript may actually have been part of a proposed movie script.
