By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI warned Dallas police about a threat to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, but cops didn’t provide adequate protection, according to information found in the release of 2,800 previously classified files relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued the warning to police about a potential death threat to Oswald after he was in police custody.
“There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead,” Hoover wrote on Nov. 24, 1963. “Last night we received a call in our Dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill Oswald.”
Hoover continued: “We at once notified the chief of police and he assured us Oswald would be given sufficient protection. This morning we called the chief of police again warning of the possibility of some effort against Oswald and again he assured us adequate protection would be given.
“However, this was not done.”
Hoover indicated he didn’t have “firm” information about Jack Ruby, the man who fatally shot Oswald, but said there were rumors of “underworld activity.”
An FBI scrambled to Oswald’s deathbed but was unable to get a confession.
Less than an hour after Oswald died, Hoover expressed concerns about quelling conspiracy theories about the assassination of JFK.
“The thing I am concerned about, and so is (deputy attorney general) Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin,” he said.
