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why were all of the records related the JFK assassination SEALED for a period of 75 years?

Why are your census forms you filled out in 2000 sealed for 70 years? Do you think it could have anything to do with privacy? If there were any "smoking guns" in the records they would simply be destroyed and all the rest released you know. You would be satisfied and never know the difference. But it is this kind of material:

that the Kennedy family wanted to be kept private until after anyone who knew Kennedy personally was dead and could be spared the anguish of seeing them.

That's a pretty apples and squash analysis. Let's examine this from another perspective. Suppose you fill out your IRS return, then seal the records and refuse to open them for an audit. If you have nothing to hide, then why are you hiding your records? I don't believe any of the stories we were fed by the government about the reasons for the records to have been sealed.

1. If there is nothing for the government to hide, why did they have to be sealed? This is not a privacy issue, these are historical public records, developed and collected at the public expense. We own them and we have a right to them.

2. If we buy into the notion that the records were sealed to protect the family, then why only a period of 75 years? Why not forever? IMO, 75 years is a convenient period of time for all of the principals involved in the assassination to be dead, as well as most Americans who were alive at the time.