As the 51st anniversary of the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy is approaching, the producer of a new documentary called "I Killed JFK" says he has a confession from the man who claims to be the killer.
"It's a man by the name of James Files who has been incarcerated for 30 years for attempted murder of two police officers in Chicago," Barry Katz, producer of the documentary, told J.D. Hayworth and Francesca Page on "America's Forum" on
Newsmax TV Thursday.
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"I Killed JFK" is scheduled to air Thursday night on Newsmax TV at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.
"He did one interview in 1994 and another one in 2003 that basically have been sequestered," Katz explained.
"There's hours of this footage that I've been through and with interviews you'll find he tells a very compelling story of how he was a driver for the mob when he was a young man in Chicago, and they asked him to come to Dallas to be a driver there and the last minute he was asked to be a backup shooter on the grassy knoll," he said.
"I'm not going to spoil the story for you, but it's really amazing," he added.
Katz argues that what gives the confession "credibility is the fact that they did hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours of interviews with different people that they spoke to, like any investigation, as any homicide detective will tell you, sooner or later they all mess up and people do talk at times."
"Files' people, that he worked with on this job, people like Charles Nicoletti and John Roselli, they were murdered in the '70s but they rarely talked about things, and as he said in the interview in the documentary, he always was in a situation where he never talked about anything," the documentary filmmaker explained.
"The moment the assassination happened, he never spoke of it again," he said.
He added that he hopes the film will give people "a little bit of healing."