James Earl Files is an American prisoner who stated in a 1994 interview that he was the "grassy knoll shooter" in the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. Files has subsequently been interviewed by others and discussed in various books pertaining to the assassination and related conspiracy theories. In 1994, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was quoted as having investigated File's allegation and found it "not to be credible". In 2010, Playboy magazine published an article by Hillel Levin in which Files also implicated Charles Nicoletti and John Roselli in the assassination of Kennedy.

Files was convicted of the attempted murder of two police officers in 1991 and sentenced to fifty-years at Statesville Correctional Center

One page typed letter from Files. Content is general in nature as he speaks about a book he is writing. Letter is pen signed 'Jimmy'. Original matching typed envelope is included.