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A former Chicago mobster claims he is the one who killed President John F. Kennedy, and says that President Donald Trump's plan to release the files to the assassination will only yield more "lies".
James Files claims he fired the bullet that killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963 from behind a fence on the grassy knoll overlooking Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
Files and his team of mafia hitmen, who he claims were recruited and trained by the CIA, packed up their weapons and fled the scene just seconds after the fatal shot was fired.
The mobster first claimed to have killed JFK in the 1990s, while he was jailed for the attempted murder of two police officers. His claims has been widely dismissed over the years.