JFK files: Could Knoxville man have been mystery caller?

John Howard Bowen (Knoxville News Sentinel)
John Howard Bowen (Knoxville News Sentinel)

The release last week of 2,800 classified documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy is raising questions about what really happened - and whether a former Knoxville man by the name of John Howard Bowen was in any way connected to the infamous murder.

Bowen was the alias used by British-born Albert Alexander Osborne, who visited and lived in Knoxville in between "missionary" work in Mexico in the years leading up to Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963.

He was the subject of an FBI investigation that revolved around a bus trip to Mexico City that Osborne took with Lee Harvey Oswald in September 1963, just months before Oswald fatally shot Kennedy in Dallas, according to archives.

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