Partial records from long-secret files relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy have been released - capturing the frantic days following the killing as officials madly chased after tips, juggled rumours and sifted through leads worldwide.

US President Donald Trump is delaying the release of some files related to the John F Kennedy assassination that were due to come out on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump does not intend to block the scheduled release of thousands of secret government documents related to President John F Kennedy's assassination.

The anticipated release of thousands of never-seen government documents related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination has scholars and armchair detectives buzzing.

As 'Jackie' opens in cinemas, Ed Power looks at her love of and visits to Ireland.

A night after being booed off the Republican National Convention stage, Texas Senator Ted Cruz remained defiant about Donald Trump, saying he is not a “servile puppy dog” and vowing not to support anyone who wages personal attacks against his family.

THREE times.

It was a bad night all round for Senator Ted Cruz.

The listings in the current edition of the RTÉ Guide announce that 3.30pm is “throw up” time in Thurles tomorrow. Two thoughts occur.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

It is one of the most controversial pictures in history —a backyard photo of Lee Harvey Oswald showing him holding the same type of rifle used to assassinate US president John F Kennedy.

A man accused of stealing more than £700,000 (€914,000)worth of rare Faberge antiques today declared his name was Lee Harvey Oswald – the man who assassinated John F Kennedy.

Ryle Dwyer examines the Warren Report into Kennedy’s assassination 50 years after publication and finds its failure to examine all the evidence undermined its conclusions

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Fifty years after President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, thousands will mark the day with a solemn ceremony in Dealey Plaza, through which the president’s motorcade passed when shots rang out.

Today, the world is remembering what was one of the most highly publicised outrages in US history — the assassination of President John F Kennedy 50 years ago. Nobody has ever been convicted of that crime.

Within hours of President John F Kennedy’s assassination, most Americans were familiar with the name Lee Harvey Oswald. Certain images of him — posing with a rifle, recoiling from Jack Ruby’s gun — have been ingrained in memory. Yet he remains an enigma.

TELEVISION was central in the American home after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a national trauma that unfolded in real time and was suited to the emerging medium.

JUST about all the people of the United States who were old enough, remember where they were when they heard that John F. Kennedy was shot.

As mourners filed past the coffin of the slain John F Kennedy in the US capital, 140 miles away the Washington Redskins kicked off against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Marilyn Monroe, who notoriously had an affair with John F Kennedy, apparently believed she was going to marry the president, even phoning the White House to tell his wife.

A funeral home director was today trying to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

THE YEAR 1963 was a momentous one.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr is convinced that a lone gunman was not solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a “shoddy piece of workmanship”.

POLICE in Texas, have honoured a man whose “keen observation skills and strong sense of civic duty” led them to Lee Harvey Oswald, who had crept into the back of a cinema to hide shortly after the assassination of president John F Kennedy.

ABC News last night said there is no truth to a report that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis believed then US vice-president Lyndon Johnson was involved in the assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy.

The very technology that the killer known as the Unabomber railed against during his murderous spree was used to help some of his victims.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD’S brother is taking legal action after the presidential assassin’s original coffin was sold at an auction.

Julian Assange said it would be “politically impossible” for Britain to extradite him to the United States for espionage.

Julian Assange said tonight it would be “politically impossible” for Britain to extradite him to the United States for espionage.

FOR the JFK-assassination conspiracy junkie who has everything: Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin. Body not included.

A DALLAS suburb agreed to pay $175,000 (€120,750) for the house where Lee Harvey Oswald stored the rifle used to assassinate US President John F Kennedy.

IN a posthumous memoir, Senator Edward Kennedy writes of fear and remorse surrounding the events on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 and says he accepted the finding that a lone gunman assassinated his brother President John F Kennedy.

When Jean came in to my office in Iveagh House she was taken aback and moved to see my photo of her brothers. On leaving Ireland after her term as ambassador she kindly gave me a gift of one of her own photos of the three brothers at home.

TWO managers under fire go head to head”. That’s how Saturday’s game was described in the big build-up.

A KGB spy who switched allegiances at the height of the Cold War and was considered by the CIA as its “most valuable and economical defector” has died.

A corn flake shaped like the US state of Illinois will join Jack Ruby's hat and Marilyn Monroe's datebook in a travelling exhibit.

Long-hidden items and documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John Kennedy were revealed for the first time after spending nearly two decades locked inside a court safe.

The way conspiracy theories grow demonstrates the need for investigations to be seen to be thorough and impartial.

New testing on the type of ammunition used in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy raises questions about whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, according to a study by researchers at Texas A&M University.

Martin Fallon has a right to feel aggrieved.