FBI agent who probed Oswald passes away

The FBI agent who many blamed for not investigating Lee Harvey Oswald more closely before President John F. Kennedy’s assassination has died.

Funeral services for James P. Hosty Junior were held in a Kansas City suburb. McGilley and Hoge Johnson County Memorial Chapel said on its website that Mr Hosty died on June 10 of cancer at Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City. He was 86. Many questioned Mr Hosty’s investigation of Oswald. But Mr Hosty said in a 2003 interview with The Kansas City Star that there was nothing he could have done to prevent the assassination given what he knew at the time.

He was appointed to help lead the FBI’s post-assassination investigation and later wrote the book Assignment: Oswald. The book was partially in response to how he was depicted in the 1991 Oliver Stone film, JKF.