Political analyst Larry Sabato said Friday that while he's not entirely satisfied by President Donald Trump's decision not to release all of the records concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, there are still a "ton of things in each of those files."
"There are hundreds of thousands of pages," Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" program. "It will take us weeks and months to get through all of it."
Sabato, who authored the book "The Kennedy Half-Century," said he's particularly interested in a document reporting that just 25 minutes before the deadly shooting in Dallas, a British newspaper got an "ominous call from an anonymous individual saying 'get ready, there is big news coming out of America very shortly.'"
The call could have "been anything," he conceded, even a crank call or a coincidental message, "but it is suspicious."
Sabato said he couldn't say if the phone call is now part of the JFK assassination timeline, or if it was received before the shots were fired, or even if the document was accurate, as he has not had the opportunity to check it out completely.
Sabato said he also found a document showing a conversation between two intelligence sources from Fidel Castro's regime, which was caught on a wiretap in the mid 1960s.
In the conversation, the intelligence officers claimed to have known JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, "and both of them claim to have known him and they claim to have known that he was a good shot. That is, they were commenting on his marksmanship."
However, Sabato said, it's not known if the agents really knew Oswald, or if they were merely bragging.
"It's impossible to say it was so long ago," Sabato said, pointing out that the JFK papers do not show an evolution.
"There are little nuggets here and there, scraps of gossip, an innuendo," Sabato said. "It's a thousand-piece puzzle and it will take us a long time to try to put this together, if it's even possible."
Sabato said he still wants to know more about a trip Oswald took to Mexico City before the assassination.
"I think most Americans have long forgotten about the fact that Oswald went to Mexico City for six days just seven weeks before the assassination, and he met with Russian officials, including KGB agents at the Russian embassy and he met with Cuban intelligence and other people at the Cuban embassy," Sabato said.
"We simply don't know what he was doing most of the time he was down there. We know for sure he was at the two embassies. What did the CIA really know, what did the FBI find out? We don't know the full story there. And I think it's one of the real stones of this investigation."
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