JFK files: Russia denies any connection to president's assassination before release of documents

Russia has pre-emptively denied ties to any plot to assassinate late President John F Kennedy ahead of the expected release of thousands of archived records.The National Archives was due to release a trove of documents related to the 22 November 1963 assassination on Thursday.One of several conspiracy theories about Mr Kennedy’s killer Lee Harvey Oswald is that he was in contact with then-Soviet intelligence services, or was given training by them while he was on a visit to the USSR.