How strange… a good 40 years after being stashed away in a walk-in safe on the tenth floor of the Dallas County, Texas courthouse, now what has been called a “trove” of boxes (fifteen to be exact) containing possible new evidence regarding JFK’s assasination have been released by District Attourney Craig Watkins.

Even many conspiracy theorists have given up hope of finding new leads in this enduring case by now. Still, the Kennedy Assasination has maintained its place as America’s most enduring murder mystery, and has even been credited with having given birth to the American conspiracy theory as we know it today. Popularized in both books and films like Texas Journalist Jim Marrs’ Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy and Olliver Stone’s film JFK, speculation and new investigations over the years have left little to the mind of those of us today who still wonder what might have actually happened.

However, according to recent reports concerning the content of the boxes, articles of clothing having belonged to Lee Harvey Oswald, as well as a leather holster which held the gun Jack Ruby used to kill Oswald, have been recovered. Interestingly, a document which appears to be a transcript of a conversation between Ruby and Oswald discussing the plot to kill Kennedy has also been found with the collection, though initial reports are saying it’s likely a portion of a movie script.

 An interesting note that supports this might be the fact that Henry M. Wade, the Dallas County DA at the time of the assasination, had actually signed a contract for a movie deal which never materialized, according to Watkins. Wade, who remained DA until 1987, had chosen not release the collection, as did his successors until Watkins took the position close to a year ago, at which time he learned of its existence. Watkins is now overseeing the process of scanning and releasing the information to the public.

 So who knows… in spite of the fact that the transcript mentioned above may be a fraud, the New York Times reported yesterday that “no outside experts had examined the trove” according to Watkins, and that even his staff members hadn’t gone through the majority of the documents and other belongings. Could it be that some new link still may exist within? Only time will tell…