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NEWS MEDIA SPOTLIGHT
JFK historian Farris Rookstool takes a deep dive into newly released unredacted files
Rookstool took CBS News Texas through some of them, highlighting handwritten letters as well as CIA files about Lee Harvey Oswald's foreign travels weeks before the assassination.
"That's the interesting thing. The CIA knew about this unstable, erratic, young guy, 24-year-old named Lee," Rookstool explains, "But the challenge was, they weren't sharing their information with the FBI."
Rookstool said the documents prove that there was an intelligence failure.
CBS Texas, Mar 19, 2025
Thousands of JFK assassination documents released
Rookstool spent nine years pouring over the investigative reports on the 1963 assassination. He has seen half a million pages of information tied to the shooting of JFK by Lee Harvey Oswald.
CBS Texas, Mar 18, 2025
Trump administration releases new trove of JFK assassination files
Rookstool spent nine years pouring over the investigative reports on the 1963 assassination. He has seen half a million pages of information tied to the shooting of JFK by Lee Harvey Oswald.
CBS Texas, Mar 18, 2025
Dallas-based expert on new JFK files: Documents reveal intelligence failures, Oswald's foreign ties
Farris Rookstool highlighted newly confirmed details about Oswald's movements and disputes within U.S. intelligence agencies.
"While these documents do not offer a definitive 'smoking gun,' they clarify longstanding questions about Oswald's activities, intelligence failures, and the broader geopolitical context of the assassination," Rookstool wrote in a statement.
CBS Texas, By Amelia Mugavero, March 18, 2025
Secret Service agent Clint Hill never recovered from tragedy of JFK assassination, associates say
One of the most prominent figures associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has died: Clint Hill, the Secret Service Agent who jumped onto the back of the limousine moments after shots rang out in Dealy Plaza.
"His entire career was defined by roughly 5/10 of a second," said Farris Rookstool, a former FBI Analyst and JFK Assassination Historian.
CBS Texas, by J.D. Miles, February 24, 2025
FBI says it has discovered 2,400 new JFK-related records
Farris Rookstool III is one of the few people who have read the JFK assassination files. He talks with LX News host Nik Z about the lawsuit, why the files haven’t been released, and what we could expect come December.
NBC News, NBC LX, by Ken Dilanian, Reaired February 11, 2025
Never-Before-Seen Footage of JFK’s Motorcade Racing President to Hospital After Assassination Goes to Auction
Farris Rookstool III, a historian, documentary filmmaker and former FBI analyst who has reviewed the film, said it shows the rush to Parkland Hospital in a more complete way than other, more fragmented film footage he’s seen. The newly publicized footage was shot by Dale Carpenter Sr.
Update: Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot sells for $137,500 at auction. US News: AP, Updated on September 28, 2024
Why the Second Assassination Attempt Was Not Surprising
Over the weekend, breaking news hit about what the FBI is investigating as another attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his Florida golf club. On Ask the Expert, Farris Rookstool once again joins us in the KRLD Afternoon News. He shares his unique perspective on the ongoing investigation and why he isn't surprised to hear about a possible second assassination attempt.
Ask the Expert, by Kristin Diazand David Rancken, NewsRadio 1080 KRLD, Sep 17, 2024
What Was This Presidential Historian's Immediate Reaction to Trump's Assassination Attempt?
In the days following the assassination attempt on Former President Donald Trump, we continue to see more evidence of what happened that day. Different camera angles, witnesses stories... even 3D imaging of the scene and trajectory, angles, and scenarios.
We asked [Rookstool], with his expertise in FBI investigations and assassinations, what was his immediate reaction to what happened.
Ask the Expert, by Kristin Diazand David Rancken, NewsRadio 1080 KRLD, July 19, 2024
Archives: JFK Stories from WFAA Through the Years
Rookstool shares historical insights in some of the most compelling and revealing WFAA stories related to JFK and the president's assassination in Dallas in 1963.
"The conspiracy-minded people will never be satisfied," said former FBI analyst Farris Rookstool.
ABC Archives: JFK Stories from WFAA, Jason Whitely, November 21, 2023
WACO: The Shocking Truth about What Really Happened
ATF agent Blake Boteler and former FBI agent Farris Rookstool, III share their experiences of the disastrous siege in Waco, Texas of 1993 and the decisions that led to a deadly confrontation.
Waco, by Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of Manson and the Road to Jonestown, Simon & Schuster, January 24, 2023