British reporter got mysterious phone call minutes before Kennedy was shot
October 27, 2017 16:06
The US National Archives on Thursday said that on orders from President Donald Trump it had released 2,891 records related to the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
The Telegraph, London, reports that one of the most astonishing revelations from the JFK files, was that a British newspaper received a mystery call minutes before Kennedy's assassination.
According to the report, a memo to the director of FBI 'revealed that a call was made to the senior reporter at the Cambridge News at 6.05 pm on the day Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas'.
'The document, from deputy director James Angleton, said: "The British Security Service (MI-5) has reported that at 1805GMT on 22 November an anonymous telephone call was made in Cambridge, England, to the senior reporter of the Cambridge News. The caller said only that the Cambridge News reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up,' the Telegraph report says.
The important point was that the call was made just 25 minutes before Kennedy was shot dead. Once he got to hear of the assassination, the reporter informed the Cambridge police of the mysterious phone call he had received.
A copy of the memo containing this information was in fact released by the US National Archives in July this year, but it had gone unnoticed till the latest bunch of reports were released yesterday.
You can read the Telegraph report here.
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