JFK Assassination Documents to be released this year

[Lewis C]

The racist tinge to the WC questioning is unmistakable from our vantage point in 2025. The three black employees are asked if they have ever been in trouble with the law but I have not come across that question being directed at white employees. Of course the questioners, who included future President Ford, would have known that a negative reply was forthcoming otherwise they would not have posed the question to helpful witnesses in the first place. Conspiracy theorists may see an implicit threat lying below the question.

If they knew that a negative answer was forthcoming, then it seems to me the more likely explanation for the question isn't that the WC was racist, but they knew that other people were, and they were anticipating attempts to discredit the witnesses, which they wanted to stop before they started.

I don't see any implicit threat in the question.

[C. F. Leon]

It's been reported that Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent that jumped in the rear of the presidential car to protect Jackie, had died at the age of 93.