https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/jacob-hornberger/smoking-gun-circumstantial-evidence-in-the-jfk-assassination/

Smoking-Gun Circumstantial Evidence in the JFK Assassination
By Jacob G. Hornberger

Those who have claimed that there is no smoking-gun evidence in the CIA’s long-secret records relating to the JFK assassination can no longer make that claim. That’s because the CIA was just forced to release its records relating to CIA official George Joannides. For more than 60 years, the CIA, with the help of deferential U.S. federal courts, had succeeded in keeping its Joannides files secret. Until now.

No, I’m not referring to some videotaped confession by former CIA head Allen Dulles or any other CIA official confessing to having participated in the orchestration and carrying out of the assassination or the resulting cover-up. As I have long maintained, there is no reasonable possibility whatsoever that anyone within the national-security state would put something directly incriminatory into writing. That would be dumb, and one thing is certain — CIA officials back in the 1960s were not dumb. In fact, they were brilliant people and very good at engaging in their expertise of state-sponsored assassinations, cover-ups, and regime change.

What I’m instead referring to is circumstantial evidence, which, as every judge in the land will instruct juries, is just as valid and credible as direct evidence. It is circumstantial evidence, such as the fraudulent autopsy that the U.S. military establishment carried out on President Kennedy’s body, or the fraudulent copy of the Zapruder film that the CIA produced on the weekend of the assassination, that have convicted the national-security state of the Kennedy murder. ......