An out-of-work salesman says his late father, a Dallas police officer, took part in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on orders from U.S. intelligence officials.

Ricky White called a news conference for Mon-day to provide evidence he said implicates his father, Roscoe Anthony White, in the 1963 shooting that killed Kennedy and wounded then-Gov. John Connally.Countless conspiracy theories for the assassination have been offered over the years despite the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, fired the shots. An FBI agent and a former CIA agent cast doubt on White's story, related to the Austin American-Statesman in a story published Sunday.

White, 29, told the newspaper that he can prove his father fired two bullets that struck the president and that his father, not Oswald, also killed Dallas police Officer J.D. Tippit less than an hour later.

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White said the FBI questioned him about his claims in 1988.

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