The JFK assassination continues to fascinate

As the anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963 approaches, various news sources are reporting the "discovery" of an audio tape that was made on Air Force One immediately after that tragic event. Long thought to be lost, according to these reports, the tape recording reveals a few new details about circumstances right after the assassination. But the new revelations do not seem very dramatic and will not likely change very much of our understanding of history. The tape is apparently a longer version of a recording already known and in the collection of the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library.

This "new" tape, which is up for sale by a firm in Philadelphia, is in private possession and not the property of the U.S. Government. The legal basis for this circumstance has not fully been explored in news accounts so far.

Regardless of any new details, it is doubtful that the tape will do much to dampen JFK assassination conspiracy theories, which are numerous and durable. 

You can read more about this story in USA Today here, or watch an Associated Press report via The Washington Post (below):

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Image (above): U.S. Government official presidential portrait of John F. Kennedy, painted by Aaron Shikler. Public domain.