Cobbers Comment About JFK Assassination Files

Judge John Tunheim (left) and Clint Hill talked about their JFK connection during Homecoming (2011).

Judge John Tunheim ’75 led an independent review board on the assassination documents in the 1990s. Interviewed by the Associated Press, which a host of national news organizations used, Tunheim says he doesn’t expect the newly released files to have any huge surprises, but acknowledges that it will be interesting to researchers and may be relevant in a different way today than in the ’90s.

Clint Hill ’54, the Secret Service agent assigned to protect Jacqueline Kennedy the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, told news organizations he hopes the information sheds light on Lee Harvey Oswald’s motive for killing JFK. In an interview with the New Yorks Times, Hill says he has never doubted that only one man killed the president. He wants to know why.

 

Sampling of News Coverage

New York Times 

Grand Forks Herald

NBC

Associated Press

People 

 

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