Trump declines to order release of certain JFK documents

AP ^ | 04/26/2018 | AP

[GIdget2004]

Back in October, President Donald Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, agreeing to appeals from the CIA and FBI.

Now, Trump has accepted a recommendation from the National Archives to keep the lid closed, more than five decades after the 35th president was killed.

[cowboyusa]

41 stayed at the ft worth hotel that JFK spent his last night at, the night before Reagan was shot.

[zerosix]

Nope not the ones you are claiming. I have a couple, retired detective and wife employee (three independent labs results) plus other airline pilots in area at the time, people on shore plus people on boats!

[sparklite2]

More than 2,200 hours of tape recordings from the Nixon White House now are available

Dig it. The heirs of Warren G Harding have managed to keep his personal papers unavailable.

“The Harding-Phillips love letters remain under an Ohio court protective order that expires in 2023, 100 years after Harding’s death, after which the content of the letters may be published or reviewed.”

Poor Nixon. He’s online but Harding’s not dead enough.

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[sparklite2]

In all of this I didn’t know until the last decade or so that I have always been a libertarian. go figure.

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Well said. I wasn’t politicized until I was in my late thirties. Yet looking back on life before then, it was lived as a libertarian with no thought of labels.

[LouAvul]

Where do you get the notion anybody is trying to protect us ....... from anything?

They are solely about protecting themselves. They've built a fragile house of cards and it's about to fall down. Maybe not in my lifetime, but ...

[LouAvul]

Do millennial weenies have cars? Do they drive?

[aimhigh]

Looks like the swamp is rubbing off on Trump. This only protects the guilty.

[mjp]

President Trump is not going to release the documents that prove George Herbert Walker Bush participated in the assassination of JFK while GHWB is alive.

or Sen. Cruz's father

[Paddyboy]

At the time of the assassination attempt on Pres Reagan,GHW Bush was having lunch with John Hinkleys father.Hinckley Sr. was a major financial contributor to the failed 1980 Presidential campaign of the Vice President

[Paddyboy]

At the time of the assassination attempt on Pres Reagan,GHW Bush was having lunch with John Hinkleys father.Hinckley Sr. was a major financial contributor to the failed 1980 Presidential campaign of the Vice President

[skimbell]

You mean the War on Poverty is OVER?

[frank ballenger]

I read the story that LBJ said “This time tomorrow afternoon I won’t have to worry about those lousy Kennedys” the day before. Then I read it was denied. Who knows?

Also, riding in the other car, LBJ missed his cue and ducked to the floor ,shaking,to save himself from ricochets a few yards too soon—with no shots fired—yet. Later he really did have to duck.

It’s also possible ancient aliens have returned to direct UFO aliens to tell Trump to clam up about JFK. Kidding.

[so_real]

Trump writes in memo issued Thursday that some of the classified documents are “of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.” The FBI and CIA had said the release could jeopardize national security.

I don't believe Trump is protecting himself. That leaves We the People as the object of protection vis-a-vis "national security".

[SubMareener]

Once Senator Cruz is re-elected for a six-year term, they could let it out. One doesn’t get to pick one’s parents. President Trump could pardon Ted’s mother for bringing Ted in illegally, and grant Ted naturalized citizenship.

[RinaseaofDs]

If your boss said he was going to eliminate your company, and you could stop it by getting another boss, would it cross your mind to kill him, if killing people is part of your regular job responsibilities?

[crusher2013]

In the past 50+ years we have seen:

Jfk assassinated.

Nixon removed from office. Soft coup.

Reagan shot and Iran-contra. 2 failed attempts to remove him from office.

Trump - the attemped soft coup is now collapsing.

Funny how the President’s in favor of Globalization never get removed from office. No matter how bad their crimes.

What the heck are we supposed to think.

[Uncle Sham]

Thanks, too bad the moderator didn’t like it. The TRUTH is not allowed to stand out in the sunlight for long.

[bobby.223]

Agreed. And the 11/2/63 JFK assassination attempt in Chicago and the 11/18/63 JFK assassination attempt in Tampa, (Both broken up by the SS), mirrored in style, ie: gunmen from shooting positions from above, the 11/22/63 JFK hit in Dallas. The ‘lone nut’ folks don’t/want to even talk about those other 2 attempts. Then the Kennedy brothers/CIA 12/1/63 planned second ‘Bay of Pigs’ style invasion of Cuba, (Known as ‘C-Day), was cancelled.

[Hugh the Scot]

In other words, if the people knew, they’d burn DC to the ground.

[USMCPOP]

“Sad. When will people learn that it does us absolutely no good being “protected from the truth”. Seriously contemplate that phrase “protected from the truth”. We don’t want protection from the truth. We want protection from lies and half-truths and mis-directions. The truth sets us free. We were a free nation once. These secrets damage that. Release the truth; let us heal.”

True. But these folks want to continue to operate unfettered by the truth. They don’t want the bureaucracy and the handcuffs that interfere with the agenda. Might be OK in a short-time war scenario. But not as a matter of everyday policy. Too much power spread around with too little accountability.