Trump Orders 2,800 JFK Assassination Files Released, Withholds Others

npr.org ^ | October 26, 2017 | Brian Naylor

[John W]

President Trump has issued a memo to executive agencies ordering the release of 2,800 remaining records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

The files are among the last to be released by the National Archives under a 1992 law that ordered the government to make all remaining documents pertaining to the assassination public. There has long been a trove of conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's death in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, including doubts about whether assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, as the Warren Commission determined in its report the following year.

Other files are being withheld due to what the White House says are national security, law enforcement and foreign policy concerns. The vast majority of what's being withheld is at the request of the FBI and CIA.

[datricker]

Only possible reason would be intelligence assets still alive in Russia or Cuba. Or methods of gathering information that could still have use today. That’s the only reason to delay anything.

Maybe - what if we have some ancient bug that still works in the basement of GRU or something. But it looks like LBJ and CIA did away with JFK. Oh and Lee Harvey Oswald.

[OldMissileer]

OK. Here is the link. It was a hyperlinkfrom one of the news sites linking to this NBC page.

NBC News web page

[Right_in_Virginia]

3rd. Trump announced all files would be released, only to backtrack at last minute.

This is just wrong. The President said:

Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.

5:35 AM - 21 Oct 2017

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/921716470140325889?lang=en

[editor-surveyor]

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The elder Cruz was a beneficiary, and big fan of the Kennedy admin.
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[datricker]

I was kidding we all know he was up making an igloo in Canada that day getting ready for the baby.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“Why would those who conducted the investigation, or held onto it all these decades be embarrassed?”
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Because they knew Oswald was a loose cannon and a threat and they screwed up by not preventing him from murdering JFK.

[grey_whiskers]

While watching ABC news tonight this was mentioned, and it was also mentioned that Jack Ruby shot himself in front of the police. I said “SAY WHAT!” I immediately asked my wife if she heard the same thing and she said SHE DID!

Any one else hear that?

I "heard" it.

[King Moonracer]

I heard that too

[Karl Spooner]

Thanks. Your post just sparked a point that I didn't think was true. The website accurately states...

"Under a 1992 law inspired by the conspiracist movie "JFK," the National Archives was supposed to have released all of the remaining records by midnight ET — unless President Donald Trump objected on national security grounds."

There was no "investigation", just a records release directive in 1992. So there wasn't anything new to protect as you seemed to believe.

[Bogie]

The function is outside of elected government.

http://www.unz.com/mwhitney/john-brennans-police-state-usa/

[mulder1]

apparently the latest release describes a plan to use bio and chemical weapons to overthrow fidel Castro and the Cuban Govt.

[Iscool]

I’m guessing a lot of stuff about Cuba.

Quite a large amount of information implicating daddy Bush...He and his boys and the rest of the swamp dwellers likely wouldn't care to see George Sr.s name in the news...

[mlo]

"You’re full of it. She is the real deal."

She's been lying, and been caught lying, for years. She has made it all up except for working at the same place as Oswald. Her story has changed over time to correct where she got busted in the past. That's why she had to put out two books. I've followed her stuff from the beginning. If she's not actually crazy she's a con woman.

[dragnet2]

It was a rhetorical question.

The whole thing seemed like a setup to me. Right down to the fact they allowed the assassin to be assassinated. I say allow, because that's exactly what they did.

Btw, I'm not sure what group or who you think did it or had it done, so I'm just sayin.☻

[Kalamata]

You are welcome to your opinion. I’ve heard none of that and don’t buy it for a minute. I’ve listened to her speeches/presentations. She is pretty old now, and shakes/stumbles as she speaks. But I have never found her to be anything but genuine and sincere. I’m thankful to have heard what she has bravely come forward and said, after so many years.

I find it amazing that even today, 50 years later, there are still CIA dis-information and smear campaigns that persist in efforts to discredit legitimate testimony. I’m not saying you are a part of it. I’d have no way of knowing that. I’m just disgusted with how completely corrupt our CIA/FBI and the whole Federal gov’t infrastructure is.

[CJ Wolf]

Lots of new russ holmes docs. Guy was a record machine.

Assassination attempt in china on President Clinton wife and Chelsea. I think I may have found a nugget.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32403854.pdf

Only ask is what does this have to do with JFK assasination file blocked by bush before clinton was pres?

[CJ Wolf]

[madjackblack]

Maybe this is the deal - some files go unreleased in exchange for the Agency and the Feebs getting onboard and doing their job.

[zeebee]

I believe he used this as leverage against the CIAFBI.

He really doesn’t care one way or another. He’s holding an ace to get them to make a deal that he does care about.

[MinuteGal]

" 'They' injected him (Ruby) with the stuff she was working on, that induces cancer."

Well, that's stretch if I ever saw one.

Leni