New JFK Assassination Documents Focused on Oswald Trip to Mexico City, Plans to Flee Deb Riechmann - The Associated Press
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Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy, grimaces as he is shot to death at point-blank range by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters Nov. 24, 1963 (Bob Jackson/AP)

Documents newly released Friday show U.S. officials scrambling after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to round up information about Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City weeks earlier.

Officials wondered whether Oswald had been trying to get visas at the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City in order to "make a quick escape after assassinating the president."

A CIA message sent Nov. 24, 1963 — two days after Kennedy was killed — says an "important question" that remained unsolved was whether Oswald had been planning to travel right away or return to the U.S. and leave later.



The message said that although it appeared Oswald "was then thinking only about a peaceful change of residence to the Soviet Union, it is also possible that he was getting documented to make a quick escape after assassinating the president."

The National Archives on Friday released another 676 government documents related to the assassination — the third public release so far this year. Under law, all the documents were to be released last week.

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