Background
Files was convicted of the attempted murder of two police officers in 1991 and sentenced to fifty-years at Statesville Correctional Center.
An "anonymous FBI source", later identified as Zack Shelton, has been reported by some researchers as having told Joe West, a private investigator in Houston, in the early 1990s about an inmate in an Illinois penitentiary who might have information about the Kennedy assassination. On August 17, 1992, West interviewed Files at Statesville. After West's death in 1993, his family requested that his friend, Houston television producer Bob Vernon, take over the records concerning the story.
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