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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination :

The unpublished supporting documents for the Warren Commission Report are due to be released by 2017. The Commission’s unpublished records were initially sealed for 75 years (to 2039) under a general National Archives policy that applied to all federal investigations by the executive branch of government,[62] a period “intended to serve as protection for innocent persons who could otherwise be damaged because of their relationship with participants in the case.”[63]

Sealing of assassination records
All of the Warren Commission’s records were submitted to the National Archives in 1964. The unpublished portion of those records was initially sealed for 75 years (to 2039) under a general National Archives policy that applied to all federal investigations by the executive branch of government,[81] a period “intended to serve as protection for innocent persons who could otherwise be damaged because of their relationship with participants in the case.”[63] The 75-year rule no longer exists, supplanted by the Freedom of Information Act of 1966 and the JFK Records Act of 1992. By 1992, 98% of the Warren Commission records had been released to the public.[82] Six years later, at the conclusion of the Assassination Records Review Board’s work, all Warren Commission records, except those records that contained tax return information, were available to the public with only minor redactions.[83] The remaining Kennedy assassination related documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017, twenty-five years after the passage of the JFK Records Act.

Several pieces of evidence and documentation are described to have been lost, cleaned, or missing from the original chain of evidence (e.g., limousine cleaned out at hospital, Connally’s suit dry-cleaned, Oswald’s military intelligence file destroyed in 1973,[84] Connally’s Stetson hat and shirt sleeve gold cufflink missing, etc.)

On May 19, 2044, the 50th anniversary of the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, if her last child has died, the Kennedy library will release to the public a 500-page transcript of an oral history about John F. Kennedy given by Mrs. Kennedy before her death in 1994.[citation needed]

[edit] Assassination Records Review Board
The Assassination Records Review Board was not commissioned to make any findings or conclusions. Its purpose was to release documents to the public in order to allow the public to draw its own conclusions. From 1992 until 1998, the Assassination Records Review Board gathered and unsealed about 60,000 documents, consisting of over 4 million pages.[1][2] All remaining documents are to be released by 2017.

(Footnote 62: Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, endnotes, p. 136-137. The 75-year rule no longer exists, supplanted by the Freedom of Information Act of 1966. All Warren Commission records, with the exception of tax returns, have now been released to the general public, with only minor redactions. )


14 posted on 02/17/2008 11:32:09 AM PST by LibFreeOrDie
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The remaining Kennedy assassination related documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017

It doesn't matter, the world comes to an end in December, 2012.

24 posted on 02/17/2008 11:55:26 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Wow, thanks for the details!


45 posted on 02/17/2008 12:48:12 PM PST by sarasota
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“Oswald’s military intelligence file destroyed in 1973,[”

Hard to believe no copy of this remains, unless they were all deliberately purged.


48 posted on 02/17/2008 12:53:15 PM PST by WoofDog123
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