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Kennedy Assassination / Oswald / Soviet Connections #240374

CBS Evening News for Friday, May 09, 1975
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(Studio) New questions being asked about assassination of President Kennedy and his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

(DC) In February `64, 10 weeks after Kennedy assassination, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, of KGB, Soviet secret police, defected to United States with details of KGB file on Oswald. After 11 years, Nosenko's existence and KGB file made public. Soviet evaluation of Oswald detailed. [Former CIA director John McCONE - says Nosenko's information not accepted right away because US doesn't accept any defector's information till it's proven beyond any doubt and defector determined legitimate.] More details of KGB file on Oswald revealed.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr

Reporter(s):
Cronkite, Walter;
Schorr, Daniel
Duration:
00:02:00

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