What was your reaction to hearing about the files getting released?

“I thought that was interesting. I think it’s interesting to learn about, so I’m curious to see, but there are other files so it’s kind of just like why these three and why not other files as well?”

What do you hope that they include in the files or what do you expect to see in there?

“I would expect two reports done. The FBI did an investigation, and then there was the Warren Commission that did an investigation. So I’d hope both of those would be in (the files) and their findings. Again, the Warren Commission found that it was a conspiracy, even though the United States has since then, we haven’t changed our position that it was a lone gunman, but the Warren Commission found it was a conspiracy. So I’d like to know just more of those details about that.”

Do you think JFK’s death was part of a larger government conspiracy?

“It definitely was a bigger conspiracy. … One of the bullets shot through multiple people’s parts, and then it was intact, just sitting on the stretcher. It should be in the car. It should be in the body. It shouldn’t just be sitting there, so I do think it was a larger conspiracy, and I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I’m not someone that’s looking for [theories], but I definitely know that it’s more than one person, and it could have been, it really could have been somebody within the government for sure.”

How do you think the assassination shaped American politics and the trust of the government?

“The Kennedy assassination, it shook the nation. He was a young president. He was a handsome president. He had a young family, and so it really made people very upset. And again, that would be a reason, especially if it was somebody on the inside, if there was.  Again, not even saying there’s a spy on the inside, not even saying it was the FBI out to get him, or the CIA out to get him. And then Johnson came in. Johnson continued a lot, it’s not like we got a big shift in politics. He continued lots of the initiatives. He’s the one that technically got us even deeper into Vietnam, the Gulf Tolkien resolution, and he also continued the civil rights movement. He signed the Civil Rights Act. As a southern Texan [a southern democrat], that was a big deal. It kind of unites the country for a little while, because it’s kind of like 9/11, but everybody comes together when it’s a really sad event, and kind of unites under that so in some ways it could have been a uniting factor. Again, politics didn’t change that much. And Johnson had two terms, and the world changed a lot during those two terms.” 

Thoughts on Lee Harvey Oswald

“I’ve always been fascinated on who with Jack [Ruby]. The guy that killed the assassin. That’s the other thing, the fact that he was killed by a club owner, and so we never even got to have his testimony or hear that, and why would a club owner kill him? He’s that patriotic? [JFK] might have known [about his assassination]. Maybe somebody was upset. “

Do you have anything to add for the JFK assassination?

“I do think it was a conspiracy. I think it was more than one person. Who? I have no idea. He was our last assassinated President. Reagan got shot at, but didn’t die. And then Trump. But Trump wasn’t technically president when he got shot in the ear.”
“The more curious thing, … is the Kennedy curse, and it’s so bizarre how many people have died. And then the fact that it is odd that when his brother got assassinated, he had a good chance of winning the presidency. I think with Bobby Kennedy, it’s more of they didn’t want him to win the election. So it could have been just a political foe.” 

About the files release

“I’d be curious to see what these documents have in them. But I also feel like, especially with MLK, I kind of feel like they’re not going to be that shocking if Trump’s willing to release them. I don’t think it’s going to say the FBI, because that’s going to really set people off.”

What are you theories regarding Martin Luther King Jr.?

“I think he was killed by the FBI. like that when I have a real just for the time. His wife doesn’t think. So Martin Luther King’s wife, Coretta, she doesn’t think the guy that went to jail [did it]. [James Earl Ray] admitted he did it, but he admitted it so quickly, so they think she later didn’t think that he killed him, and he later recanted. And I think he was probably a plant. I think it had to do with the civil rights movement. I think it had to do with a lot of things.”

Why do you think it was the FBI?

“It’s somebody higher up. I don’t think it’s local police officers. And I think it has a lot to do with the civil rights movement at the time. It’s really easy to look back at the civil rights movement and be like, “Oh, Martin Luther King he fought,” and we kind of look at that like, as if everybody was with him. People look at it like everybody wanted it, but no, people did not. That’s why they had the movement. People did not want to give people of color the right to vote, and he was really shaking things up. And I think there probably was a belief with somebody somewhere, that if they got rid of him [it would change the movement]. It did. It changed the movement after he died.”

Do you think James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King Jr.? Did he act alone?

“I don’t even know that he did it. I feel like he might have been paid off to say he did it, or he did do it, but he was paid to do it. I definitely think there’s more involved. But I don’t know what. That’s the problem. I’m not that big of a conspiracy theorist, and I haven’t researched it that much. but just based on the little things I know, I don’t think he acted alone. I think he might have been paid. That’s why he admitted to it and then he recanted it. He pulled it back later, but it was too late, and Martin Luther King’s wife believed him. Why would you believe the guy that killed your husband? And she’s somebody who really has looked into it, because I would, too if it was my husband…I would want to know more about his testimony, I would want to know more about why he pulled it back, why they didn’t believe him.”

What are your thoughts on RFK’s assassination? Do you think there are any motives behind his death?

“Robert F. Kennedy, I would guess [was assassinated] more for political reasons, again, not winning the presidency. I would feel like somebody killed him for that. It also could have just been a racist person, because he was actually more progressive than JFK. There’s a lot of different options of who would have wanted him, and it really could have just been about politics but I don’t know much more about him. I just know that he got shot.”