Final documents to offer new details on JFK assassination GE explores divesting transportation, health care IT biz

More than half a century after US President John F Kennedy was struck down by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas, the US is due on Thursday to release the final files on the investigation into the killing. Academics who have studied Kennedy’s slaying on November 22, 1963, said they expected the final batch of files to offer no major new details on why Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down the first and only Irish-American Roman Catholic to hold the office. They also feared that the final batch of more than 5 million total pages held in the National Archives will do little to quell long-held conspiracy theories that the president’s killing was organised by the Mafia, Cuba or rogue agents.

REUTERS< General Electric Co is exploring divesting its transportation and health care information technology businesses, as it seeks to reshape its portfolio under new Chief Executive John Flannery, sources said. Such a move would help GE to meet more than half of its stated goal of shedding more than $20 billion worth of assets, they said. There is no certainty that GE will proceed with these divestitures, the sources added. The move would make GE the latest US industrial conglomerate to go ahead with asset divestitures after Honeywell International said earlier this month it would part with some of its businesses by creating two new publicly listed companies. REUTERS<