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Judicial Watch: National Archives Tells Court It Can’t Predict When JFK Assassination Records will be Released
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Posted on 05/29/2025 4:00:43 PM PDT by NoLibZone

Judicial Watch announced today that in a report to the court in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) stated it “cannot fully predict” when records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be released. The National Archives estimates that there are “over six million pages” of responsive records.

Judicial Watch filed the February 2025 lawsuit after the National Archives failed to respond to a January 20, 2025, FOIA request (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. National Archives and Records Administration (1:25-cv-00577)). Judicial Watch sued for:

All previously unreleased records in the possession of the National Archives and Records Administration regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This request includes, but is not limited to, all records transferred to NARA by the Assassination Records Review Board.

The National Archives states in a “joint status report” to the court:

[National Archives] cannot fully predict when records responsive to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request will be released online because of the volume of material, the complexity of the digitization process, and the remaining restrictions on access such as grand jury and court sealed information, taxpayer information protected by 26 U.S.C. § 6103, deeded materials, and intellectual property. [National Archives] will continue to work diligently to process [Judicial Watch’s] request and post records online on a rolling basis.

Additionally, fulfilling [Judicial Watch’s] request for records of the ARRB [Assassination Records Review Board] itself will be labor intensive. The [Assassination Records Review Board] records are part of the JFK Collection but do not meet the definition of an “assassination record” within the statute…. These records, which have not previously been fully reviewed for public release, must be digitized and reviewed line-by-line for FOIA exemptions.

Judicial Watch and the National Archives propose updating the court as to the status of the processing of records on or before July 28, 2025.

On January 19, 2025, then President-Elect Donald Trump announced his intention to make public the “remaining records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” On January 23, an executive order was issued to that effect:

More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.

The National Archives claims that since January 23, 2025, it has posted approximately 80,000 pages of responsive records online.

“The National Archives needs speed up the release of the Kennedy records! At this rate, it will be decades before the files even partly are made available to the American people,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Judicial Watch has several FOIA cases pending against the National Archives.

In January 2024, a FOIA lawsuit uncovered records from the National Archives that showed then-Vice President Joe Biden’s use of an email alias to correspond with family members, including son Hunter and brother James; and that Joe Biden signed off on the cessation of Secret Service protection for Hunter Biden and Beau Biden’s daughter Natalie during an August 2016 trip to Kosovo.

In August 2023, Judicial Watch sued the National Archives for records of its role in President Trump’s White House records controversy; whether it offered Trump a secure storage location other than the National Archives; and if the Archives consulted with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding the classification or declassification procedures of any of the alleged classified documents found at Trump’s Florida residence.

In August 2022, Judicial Watch uncovered that, as of March 31, the National Archives had released only 1,276 pages of over 8,000 records about the unprecedented document dispute and raid on the home of former President Trump. Click here or here to review the records.

In October 2022, Judicial Watch sued the Barak Obama Presidential Library for Obama White House records about the 2016 “Russia Collusion Hoax.” The records, which by law were not available under FOIA until five years after President Obama left office, are held at the library, which is part of the National Archives system.


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At this rate, it will be decades before the files even partly are made available to the American people,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
1 posted on 05/29/2025 4:00:43 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

Who is alive, that was involved, that needs to be protected still?

This was 60 years ago. The youngest possible age where there is involvement is going to be about 80 years old.


2 posted on 05/29/2025 4:02:00 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented a pen that can write underwater. And other words. )
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To: NoLibZone

One good thing about AI is that it will be able to dig through huge files like this and provide useful information—as long as the correct questions are asked or guidance given.

AI would be a great tool for declassification in general. Give it criteria and let it rip....


3 posted on 05/29/2025 4:04:11 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: NoLibZone

It’s an agency under the Executive Branch for God’s sake!


4 posted on 05/29/2025 4:04:45 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Jonty30

Institutions and governments are very much alive...hint, hint, hint...


5 posted on 05/29/2025 4:04:55 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Jonty30

Unfortunately, the CIA and Deep State are still very much alive.

That’s who needs to be protected.


6 posted on 05/29/2025 4:05:26 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: cgbg

You’re assuming everything is digitized.


7 posted on 05/29/2025 4:11:16 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: butterdezillion

The Zapruder film tells us that the government did it. It has been altered to death. No need for alterations if a “lone nut” did it. We


8 posted on 05/29/2025 4:11:53 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: neverevergiveup

Maybe we need a thousand little robots with scanners.

Lol.


9 posted on 05/29/2025 4:12:18 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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10 posted on 05/29/2025 4:24:03 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: NoLibZone

FIRE THEM ALL.


11 posted on 05/29/2025 4:31:11 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: NoLibZone

They probably never imagined in 1964 that the JFK assassination would still be a big deal 61 years later. They thought that, by now, no one would care anymore.


12 posted on 05/29/2025 4:31:54 PM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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To: Jonty30

The main players are indeed dead. But the problem for the Deep State is how it will further tarnish the (already tarnished) institutions.


13 posted on 05/29/2025 4:33:22 PM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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To: NoLibZone

300 tears later, in the ruins of Washington, they will find the JFK files.


14 posted on 05/29/2025 4:33:44 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: NoLibZone

What they’re telling you is that you don’t matter and they don’t care.


15 posted on 05/29/2025 4:34:43 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Jonty30

Who is alive? The CIA and Joint Chiefs as an entity, the FBI as an entity.
This isn’t about protecting a person. It’s about not admitting to the American people that Kennedy was deposed in a violent coup. And that leads to some very uncomfortable questions about those who took the reins of government in the following decades.


16 posted on 05/29/2025 4:34:49 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: NoLibZone

Maybe by the Twelfth of Never. But we might need a few more weeks.


17 posted on 05/29/2025 4:38:07 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: NoLibZone

The fact that they will not release the records 62 years later tell you all you need to know. Imagine it being 1928 and the government keeps a veil of secrecy over the Lincoln assassination.

A Junta of the joint chiefs, CIA and FBI collaborated. They hired mafia hitman with the lure of getting their lucrative Cuban operations back on track.


18 posted on 05/29/2025 4:42:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: Uncle Sham
The Zapruder film tells us that the government did it. It has been altered to death. No need for alterations if a “lone nut” did it.

There are two obvious alterations on the Zapruder film for the laymen to see with their own eyes:

1. The limo's left turn onto Elm Street was cut out entirely.

2. The back of JFK's head is blacked out and appears intact after the head shot, contradicting what doctors and nurses saw at Parkland Hospital ("the back half of his skull was missing").

There are other, less obvious, more debated alterations. Some are plausible, others I'm not sure about.

19 posted on 05/29/2025 5:02:57 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Jonty30

ALOT OF PAPER & INK TO TELL LIES & COVER UP


20 posted on 05/29/2025 5:04:53 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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