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New Kennedy Documents Say FBI Was Tipped Off Oswald Was In Danger After Arrest

In one memo written just after President Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called it "inexcusable" he wasn't protected.
Lee Harvey Oswald is pictured on November 22, 1963, after being arrested for the murder of President John F. Kennedy.

The FBI was warned that Lee Harvey Oswald, President John F. Kennedy's assassin, might be in danger of being killed himself just before Oswald was shot by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

The revelations are part of a new trove of more than

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