Education
University of Notre Dame.
University of Notre Dame.
After the Kennedy assassination, Hosty did not disclose Oswald"s letter about Marina to the Warren Commission and destroyed Oswald"s letter on his superior"s order. Because of this, Hosty attracted speculation as a possible conspirator in several conspiracy theories. Hosty was one of 12 agents reprimanded for investigative improprieties after the release of the Warren Report, and was transferred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation"s Kansas City office until his mandatory retirement in 1979.
Hosty later wrote a memoir about the Kennedy assassination, titled "Assignment: Oswald".
Hosty was born on August 28, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of seven children of Charlotte Irene and James Patrick Hosty, Senior, an executive in a sugar company in Chicago.
He received an unsigned note from Lee Harvey Oswald about two weeks before the Kennedy assassination. Hosty filed it in his file drawer.
He first met Oswald on November 22, 1963.
lieutenant was while he was interrrogating Oswald on November 22nd he realized the unsigned note he received two weeks prior was from Oswald. He said by orders of his supervisor he destroyed the note after Oswald himself was killed on November 24, 1963. He retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1979.
He died of prostate cancer on June 10, 2011 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Hosty was portrayed in the 1991 Oliver Stone film John F Kennedy as having a central role in a government conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy and frame Oswald. In the 2011 Stephen King novel 11/22/63, Hosty questions the protagonist Jake Epping, a time traveler who has just narrowly prevented Oswald from killing the president
Hosty is suspicious of Epping because of what he knows about Oswald and his investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but assists Epping in his efforts to quietly disappear (so that he may return to 2011). In 2013, actor Ron Livingston portrayed Hosty in writer/director Peter Landesman"s film Parkland, a film which recounts the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas" Parkland Hospital on the day John F Kennedy was assassinated.