Found the missing link in the JFK files by accident

I was going through some declassified CIA documents from the 90s last month at a library in Austin. Not even looking for JFK stuff, just digging through old Cold War memos. I stumbled on a cable traffic report that had a name redacted but a location matched the Dallas trade mart exactly. Cross-referenced it with a local news archive from November 1963 and found a witness statement that the guy was there. The trick is nobody uses the old microfilm indexes anymore. They all search digitally and miss the handwritten logs. Took me 6 hours to piece together but the sequence of events changes the timeline. Has anyone else found a document that rewrote what they thought they knew?

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eva_thompson17d agoMost Upvoted

The microfilm trick is legit, I've found stuff that way too (the old handwritten indexes are goldmines). Spent 3 hours once on a city council archive from the 70s, came out with a whole different picture of a zoning scandal.

wendyprice17d ago

@eva_thompson that zoning scandal thing sounds wild. Did you end up publishing that or just keeping it in your back pocket?