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1939-10-18 — Lee Harvey Oswald born
1947-09-18 — Central Intelligence Agency established
1956-10-24 — Oswald enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps
1959-06-08 — Trafficante detained by Castro government
1959-10-31 — Oswald declares intent to defect
1961-03-12 — CIA-Mafia Fontainebleau Hotel meeting
1961-04-04 — Carlos Marcello deported to Guatemala
1961-04-17 — Bay of Pigs invasion begins
1961-04-30 — Oswald marries Marina Prusakova
1962-06-13 — Oswald returns to the United States
1962-09-01 — Alleged Marcello threat against the Kennedys
1962-10-16 — Cuban Missile Crisis begins
1963-04-10 — Alleged shooting at Gen. Walker's residence
1963-09-27 — Oswald visits Mexico City
1963-10-04 — Jane Roman reads FBI report on Oswald
1963-10-10 — Jane Roman signs HQ cable on Oswald to Mexico City
1963-10-16 — Oswald hired at Texas School Book Depository
1963-11-18 — Dallas motorcade route published
1963-11-22 — CIA/AMLASH meeting in Paris
1963-11-22 11:40 a.m. CST — Air Force One lands at Love Field
1963-11-22 11:55 a.m. CST — Motorcade departs Love Field
1963-11-22 12:30 p.m. CST — Shots fired in Dealey Plaza
1963-11-22 1:00 p.m. CST — JFK pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital
1963-11-22 1:15 p.m. CST — Murder of Officer J. D. Tippit
1963-11-22 1:50 p.m. CST — Oswald arrested at the Texas Theatre
1963-11-22 2:38 p.m. CST — Lyndon Johnson sworn in as President
1963-11-23 — Marina Oswald identifies backyard photographs
1963-11-24 11:21 a.m. CST — Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1963-11-24 1:07 p.m. CST — Oswald pronounced dead at Parkland
1963-11-25 — State funeral and burial of President Kennedy
1963-11-29 — Warren Commission established
1964-02-03 — Warren Commission hearings begin
1964-03-16 — Arlen Specter joins Warren Commission staff
1964-04-21 — Specter deposes Bethesda autopsy surgeons
1964-09-24 — Warren Commission Report delivered to LBJ
1964-11-23 — Warren Commission Hearings published
1965-11-08 — Death of Dorothy Kilgallen
1966-10-05 — Jack Ruby's conviction reversed
1966-11-01 — Garrison opens JFK assassination investigation
1967-01-03 — Death of Jack Ruby
1967-03-01 — Clay Shaw arrested by Jim Garrison
1968-01-01 — Clark Panel review of autopsy evidence
1969-01-31 — State v. Clay Shaw begins
1969-03-01 — Clay Shaw acquitted
1974-08-15 — Death of Clay Shaw
1975-06-19 — Sam Giancana killed
1975-06-24 — Roselli testifies before Church Committee
1975-06-30 — Rockefeller Commission Report
1975-09-22 — Roselli returns for additional Church Committee testimony
1975-10-01 — Trafficante testifies before Church Committee
1976-04-23 — Church Committee final report
1976-07-28 — Johnny Roselli disappears
1976-08-07 — Johnny Roselli body found
1976-09-17 — HSCA established
1977-02-25 — NYT concludes Roselli was killed over Senate testimony
1977-03-29 — Death of George de Mohrenschildt
1978-01-11 — Marcello testifies in HSCA executive session
1978-09-28 — Trafficante testifies before HSCA (public)
1978-11-22 — Anne Goodpasture interviewed by HSCA
1978-12-29 — HSCA acoustic finding announced
1979-03-29 — HSCA Final Report published
1979-05-01 — Helms confirms Shaw's CIA Domestic Contact role
1982-05-14 — NAS/Ramsey Panel rejects acoustic finding
1987-03-17 — Death of Santo Trafficante Jr.
1988-03-28 — DOJ declines to reopen investigation
1988-10-01 — Garrison publishes "On the Trail of the Assassins"
1991-12-18 — Oliver Stone's "JFK" released
1992-10-21 — Death of Jim Garrison
1992-10-26 — President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act signed
1993-03-02 — Death of Carlos Marcello
1994-04-11 — ARRB members sworn in
1994-11-01 — Jane Roman interviewed by John Newman (1st)
1995-03-01 — Jane Roman interviewed by John Newman (2nd)
1995-12-15 — Anne Goodpasture ARRB deposition (first)
1997-04-24 — Zapruder film declared an assassination record
1998-04-23 — Anne Goodpasture ARRB deposition (second)
1998-09-30 — ARRB Final Report published
2000-04-01 — Specter publishes "Passion for Truth"
2008-01-01 — Death of Jane Roman
2011-12-04 — Death of Anne Goodpasture
2012-10-14 — Death of Arlen Specter
2017-07-24 — JFK Records 2017 release
2018-04-26 — JFK Records April 2018 release
2021-12-15 — JFK Records December 2021 release
2022-12-15 — JFK Records December 2022 release
2023-06-27 — JFK Records June 2023 release
2025-01-23 — Executive Order 14176 signed
2025-03-18 — JFK Records 2025 release (March 18 drop)
2025-03-26 — JFK Records 2025 release (March 26 drop)
2025-04-03 — JFK Records 2025 release (April 3 drop)
2026-01-30 — JFK Records January 2026 release

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