MURDERED DALLAS OFFICER ALSO ACCUSED

A POLICEMAN was named by an FBI informant as John F Kennedy’s true killer, the files revealed.

The unnamed informant said the president was shot by long-serving policeman JD Tippit, who was said to be the head of a radical right-wing group in Dallas.

Mr Tippit was then shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald 45 minutes after the JFK assassination, during an attempt to intercept him in a Dallas city suburb.

He had heard a description of the JFK suspect over his police radio but was shot by Oswald four times in the head, chest and stomach.

The policeman was awarded a posthumous medal of valour but has since been named in conspiracy theories which allege he was sent to kill Oswald to ensure he would be blamed for the assassination, allowing the true killer – himself – to escape.

The files revealed a typewritten note sent to the head of the FBI in 1964, saying an informant had claimed: ‘The president was actually assassinated by Dallas police officer TIPPIT.’

The informant said Mr Tippit’s involvement had been revealed by ‘individuals previously active in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee’, a pro-Cuban group.

Another source said Oswald had wanted to establish a chapter of the FPCC in Dallas – but that he was also involved in anti-Castro groups. Mr Tippit was said to be the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas, a far-Right group that opposed communism.

A document revealed the FBI informant claimed Mr Tippit had been seen in a nightclub a week before the assassination with a man whom FPCC members believed might have been Oswald.