National Archives details plans for mass JFK declassification in 2017
Martha Murphy of the National Archives explains the JFK Records Act and the Archives’ plans for declassifying and releasing long secret assassination-related documents held by the U.S. government in...
View ArticleCountdown to October 2017: a call to action
In collaboration with the Assassination Archives and Research Center, the Mary Ferrell Foundation, and JFK Facts, there is a new online resource for all who wish to stay informed about relevant...
View ArticleCIA disclosures bare the origins of the JFK cover-up
Three days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA told his successor Lyndon Johnson a bit of news: the agency’s sources had just confirmed press reports that accused assassin Lee...
View ArticleCIA may still have photos of Oswald in Mexico City
One mystery of JFK assassination story is why accused assassin Lee Oswald was not photographed when he visited the Embassy of the Soviet Union in Mexico City two months before President Kennedy was...
View ArticleWhat the Huffington Post doesn’t know about the CIA and JFK
What’s with the Huffington Post? In his news report, New CIA Information on JFK Assassination, on the release of thousands of presidential briefings from the 1960s, HuffPo reporter Keith Thomson...
View ArticleWhere do the 2016 presidential contenders stand on secrecy?
The Republican presidential candidates debating on October 28 will, if elected, face a question of secrecy. The CIA retains 1,100 documents related to the assassination that are supposed to be made...
View ArticleWill Jeb Bush follow his father on JFK secrecy?
Jeb Bush ‘s JFK moment One question facing Republican presidential candidate Jeb BUsh is whether he would, as president, allow U.S. government agencies to continue to withhold 3,600 JFK assassination...
View ArticleEnforce the JFK Records Act: Collect the foreign records about the assassination
Secretary of State John Kerry opens the U.S. Embassy in Havana on August 14, 2015. The 1999 Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board singled out President Clinton’s State Department of a...
View ArticleEnforce the JFK Records Act: collect the key CIA cables and dispatches
Those of us who comb through the CIA’s records about Lee Harvey Oswald’s time in Mexico City are frustrated that there is no easy way to find many of the key cables between Mexico City and...
View ArticleWhat is going to happen with JFK records in 2017?
Q. What could the U.S. government still possilbly be hiding in 2015 about the assassination of JFK in 1963. A: A lot. Politico’s Bryan Bender explains. About JFK Records in 2017. What Hillary Clinton...
View ArticleQuestion for Chris Christie: Will you release all JFK files in 2017?
A JFK question for New Jersey Governo Chris Christie: Will you enforced the JFK Records Act and mandate the release of all assassination-related records, as scheduled, in October 2017, We hope so. The...
View ArticleNational Archives details plans for mass JFK declassification in 2017
Martha Murphy of the National Archives explains the JFK Records Act and the Archives’ plans for declassifying and releasing long secret assassination-related documents held by the U.S. government in...
View ArticleAgencies hint they may try to block JFK declassification in 2017
I missed Lauren Harper’s useful update on UNREDACTED about the National Archives plans for JFK declassification in 2017. [Archivist Martha] Murphy recently stated that NARA has “sent letters to...
View ArticleDenied: the JFK records the government doesn’t want you to see
The invaluable WhoWhatWhy has posted a spreadsheet of the 3,600-plus assassination-related records that the U.S. government has never made public. The existence of the 3,600 records was first reported...
View ArticleWhat Thomas Jefferson’s affair with Sally Hemings can tell us about JFK
I have to disagree with my faithful friend who doubts the release of thousands of JFK records in October 2017 will much affect popular understanding of the assassination of President Kennedy. My friend...
View ArticleWhere to go to learn more about JFK and October 2017
Help ensure that our elected representatives will uphold and enforce the terms of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. Source: ASSASSINATION ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH CENTER...
View Article10 questions about the still-secret JFK records
JFK blogger Bill Kelly has ten questions about the still secret JFK files uncovered by Michael Ravnitsky and WhoWhatWhy, and reported by Politico. Some can be answered but some can’t. See Number 4....
View ArticleThe JFK question for the 2016 election
Here’s a question for the presidential contenders of 2016: Will each candidate “declare, unequivocally, his or her intention to release the remaining JFK assassinations records in 2017.” It is a basic...
View ArticleWhat would President Trump do about JFK records?
Once again Donald Trump is frazzling the custodians of civil discourse. His use of an unfounded JFK conspiracy theory to jab now-defeated rival Ted Cruz is much lamented on the internet. Trump’s “pants...
View ArticleAgencies hint they may try to block JFK declassification in 2017
I missed Lauren Harper’s useful update on UNREDACTED about the National Archives plans for JFK declassification in 2017. [Archivist Martha] Murphy recently stated that NARA has “sent letters to...
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