JFK conspiracy-mongers can rest assured. The legally required release this week of government documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy offered nothing conclusive to put them out of business, but instead a dog's breakfast of tidbits, prompting the journalistic herd to stampede off in different directions. Some played up assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's meeting in Mexico City just weeks before the shooting with a Soviet official affiliated with the KGB's "Assassination Department"; others touted reported Kremlin suspicions that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination. President Trump withheld some files, citing national security. And of what came out, it was a challenge for reporters to sort new revelations from old news that turned up in previously released files -- like the CIA's desire to use the mafia to take out Fidel Castro and JFK's joining Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack at "sex parties."
