Cuban hitman may have been JFK's second assassin

An expert at John F Kennedy's assassination has claimed that a Cuban hitman was the second assassin who was involved in the former US President's "murder plot".

Professor Robert Blakey, who has closely examined the shooting of JFK, has alleged that in 2007, from nowhere, he was contacted by a Cuban exile called Reinaldo Mart-nez, the Daily Express reported.

Blakey explained that Mart-nez was in his 80s, and told him that he wanted to get something off his chest before he died.

Mart-nez explained to Blakey that anti-Castro leader Tony Cuesta, a celebrated hero to Cuban exiles in the US, had told him that a comrade, Herminio D-az had confessed before dying that he had "participated" in Kennedy's assassination.

Cuesta said that D-az was a known political assassin, a marksman and had joined the anti-Castro struggle that so many exiles felt Kennedy had betrayed.

Blakey added that Mart-nez's claims were credible and "a breakthrough of historic importance".