# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-files
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:26:11.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-files"
name: "James Files"
slug: "james-files"
description: "James Earl Files, also known as James Sutton, is an American former prisoner and convicted felon. In 1994, while serving a 50-year sentence for the 1991 attempted murders of two police officers, Files gave interviews stating that he was the \"grassy knoll shooter\" in the 1963 assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy."
tagline: "American criminal, self-claimed JFK assassin"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Files_mugshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1942-01-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.95283066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276875/"
    handle:    "nm0276875"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B7%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Файлз, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "جيمس فايلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Files"
    title: "James Files"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Files"
    title: "James Files"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Files"
    title: "James Files"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Files"
    title: "James Files"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%81%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "جیمز فایلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Files"
    title: "James Files"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Files"
    title: "James Files"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Files"
    title: "James Files"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Files"
    title: "James Files"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1399313"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2290995"
    title: "James Files"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump