Ray Locker, Jessica Estepa, Helen Parshall

USA TODAY

Nearly 2,900 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Thursday.

As we read through the National Archive trove, we annotated some of the most fascinating ones we've come across.

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Assassination tip at a bar

Another tip just minutes before the 1963 shooting

Interviews with the CIA

A previous Lee Harvey Oswald arrest

A letter from George H. W. Bush

Keeping the Warren Commission out of the loop

Helen Parshall reports for Capital News Service.