More Today, JFK assassination files will be made public

— Washington The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is scheduled to release a new trove of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Thursday, revealing never-before-seen government records in the midst of a decades-long battle to uncover some of the most sensitive information related to Kennedy’s death.

In accordance with the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, the government was supposed to divulge all assassination-related papers by October 2017, unless doing so would compromise national security or intelligence sources. During his presidency, then-President Donald Trump released hundreds of documents but withheld others on national security grounds.

President Biden released nearly 1,500 additional documents in October 2021, while delaying the release of the most sensitive documents until December 15, 2022, citing the need for additional review to “protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations.”

The Archives stated last year that “any information currently withheld from public disclosure that agencies do not propose for continued postponement” beyond December 15 would be made public, leaving open the possibility that federal agencies may seek to further delay the release of some of the outstanding records.

46-year-old John F. Kennedy was shot and murdered while traveling through Dallas in his motorcade on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine and communist activist who had resided in the Soviet Union, acted alone, according to an investigation led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, although the investigation has been heavily questioned by academics and historians in the nearly 60 years since the killing.

Longtime JFK watchers believed that Thursday’s publication might shed additional light on what the CIA knew about Oswald before Kennedy’s death, particularly his activities in Mexico City in October 1963, where he met with a KGB officer. Two days after Kennedy’s death, Oswald was shot and murdered in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters, further fuelling conspiracy theories over whether he was alone responsible for the murder.

The Mary Ferrell Foundation, a non-profit organization that maintains an online database of assassination-related information, filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration in October, accusing the government of failing to produce all documents by the 2017 deadline.

“These failures have resulted in confusion, gaps in the records, over-classification, and outright denial of thousands of assassination-related files, five years after the law’s deadline for full disclosure,” the organization said at the time, asking a judge to compel the release of the documents or establish a more transparent national-security review process in accordance with the 1992 law’s guidelines.


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