Posted on 09/20/2024 9:05:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
By now, it is pretty widely known that government agencies are still withholding thousands of “protected” files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As of 2023, 4,684 assassination records are still “fully or partially” withheld from the public.
All remaining JFK assassination records were supposed to be released in full by 2017. That is the law created by Congress in the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (JFK Act).
What happened instead?
President Trump ordered a delay of more than 3 years.
Biden took over the task of declassifying the JFK records and actually made things worse.
Biden placed discretion back in the hands of the very agencies that fight so hard to keep these historical records locked away forever.
Both presidents did not comply with the clear language and intent of the JFK Act.
What is the reason for this?
Our government told us through the Warren Commission that only one individual (Lee Harvey Oswald) killed JFK. A “lone gunman” who had no co-conspirators. We were given that story over 60 years ago, and it was (and is still) sold brilliantly by the mainstream media and in school history books. Interestingly, the JFK Act says that an assassination record can only be withheld if it poses an identifiable harm to a living person, a current military operation, a current intelligence operation, law enforcement, or U.S. foreign relations. So, where’s the connection between the “lone nut” Oswald and a legitimate reason to withhold an assassination record in 2024?
What can stop this ongoing cover-up?
A big step forward was taken in 1992 by Congress with the JFK Act. That law created the Assassination Records and Review Board (ARRB). The ARRB was empowered to declassify all JFK assassination records. And that was in 1992, almost 30 years after the assassination! The ARRB declassified several million assassination records. However, the ARRB had a limited shelf life and closed down in 1998. From 1998 to 2017, Congress did nothing to ensure that the ARRB’s purpose was carried out in full. Every president since Clinton ignored the issue. Trump and Biden simply kicked the can down the road when the JFK Act required full and final disclosure in 2017.
In 2013, ARRB chairman Judge John R. Tunheim expressed his frustration with the CIA. To the Boston Globe, Tunheim said, “There is a body of documents that the CIA is still protecting, which should be released. Relying on inaccurate representations made by the CIA in the mid-1990s, the Review Board decided that records related to a deceased CIA agent named George Joannides were not relevant to the assassination. Subsequent work by researchers, using other records that were released by the board, demonstrates that these records should be made public.”
Tunheim pointed out that the CIA had not told the Warren Commission that George Joannides was the CIA lead for the agency’s links with the anti-Castro group Oswald had a public fight with in mid-1963 (in New Orleans); nor had they told the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), of which Joannides was the CIA’s liaison. Tunheim said in a separate interview that “it really was an example of treachery… If [the CIA] fooled us on that, they may have fooled us on other things.”
Tunheim’s comments shed credible light on the reason(s) for the continued secrecy. We know that Trump, when president, announced his intent to release all of the JFK records.
We know that Trump got a visit from the CIA at the eleventh hour and instead authorized a delay of more than three years.
We know that Trump has privately told a friend and advisor that he simply “could not” release the remaining JFK records because of what he was shown and told by one or more intelligence agencies.
Could it be that certain intelligence agencies are still protecting an operation involving Oswald that was not explained (or even investigated) by the Warren Commission?
What can we expect now?
Representative Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) has recently initiated legislation to finish the declassification work required by the JFK Act.
If Cohen’s bill is successful, declassification authority would be turned over to an independent civilian review board—in other words, the ARRB 2.0. This should have been done years ago by congressional oversight committees, but it’s a start. Trump has stated (again) that he will release all JFK records if re-elected, and Trump is of course supported by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in that effort. We do not know what Kamala Harris will do if elected. But at the end of the day, Congress already has the authority in the JFK Act to do this work. The next president simply has to follow the law and only authorize continued postponement for a legitimate reason.
And in all honesty, what reason could there still be for secrecy other than intelligence agencies fighting to cover up their extreme anti-Castro and anti-communist activities from the early 1960s?
Readers should look up “Operation Northwoods,” a Pentagon-CIA “false flag” scheme exposed in 1997, which can be viewed as a blueprint for the attack on JFK in Dallas. Oswald’s journey from New Orleans to Mexico City to Dallas, being portrayed as a “pro-Castro Communist sympathizer” along the way, certainly seems consistent with a Northwoods operation.
I believe Oswald did it and did it all one.
All the previous “evidence,,” that Oswald couldn’t behave made the shot proved to be incorrect or wildly exaggerated. (”Magic bullet”, anyone? What I believe is this is a massive cover-up of federal law enforcement agencies at the federal level at the sloppy, inept and downright baffling ineptitude and each agency is doing a concerted effort of protecting their “brand name” and “reputation”
Which has failed because literally nobody, left nor right believes them anymore.
Oswald,can open Marxist and national known one at that wasn’t under surveillance?
He’s picking fights on camera with anti Castro groups.
Buying guns online, yet it was a false name but really,vit doesn’t look good on the FBI career file.
He’s working at the building overlooking the highway the Kennedy caravan id traveling by... In an open car, in hostile Texas state?
The idiocy goes on but you get the gist.
Like in Trump’s two assassination attempts, none of this screams confidence.
There’s likely some agreement to withhold the evidence until all of the parties involved are dead. I don’t know if there are still any witnesses alive, but they could hold things up.
Anyone who is old enough to be accountable for decisions in 1963 is almost certainly dead.
What do people think are in these documents?
Do people think they’d keep documents saying “we did it!”?
If the secrets incriminate the agencies in killing Kennedy, they have a need to protect their institutional reputations lest they be radically reformed.
[Representative Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) has recently initiated legislation to finish the declassification work required by the JFK Act.]
Did this Democrat order out for KFC again by any chance?
Who strongly influenced/pressured President Trump against his inclination to release all the JFK documents ?
DeepState Mike Pompeo
Way too many popups on that site.
A recent Secret Service agent memoir revealed that the author found the "magic bullet" on the back of the limo trunk immediately behind Kennedy and placed it on a stretcher. The agent concluded that the bullet was an undercharged round that had hit Kennedy in the back and then popped out when he raised his arm. This accounts for the second shot and eliminates the "magic bullet" scenario entirely.
A third shot hit Kennedy in the throat as an apparent entry wound. Or at least that is what the doctors in Dallas concluded.
That requires another one or two shots to account for Connally's wounds, such shots probably coming from the roof of the Texas School Book Depositary.
Then there was one or more shots to Kennedy's head, likely from the front. That is what a radiologist recently concluded after directly examining the autopsy radiographs at the National Archives.
That gives us evidence of six or seven shots, not the three that Oswald could at most have managed. Notably, there is no basis on which to think that Oswald was capable of even three rapid, accurate shots at a moving target. All of Oswald's training was with stationary targets.
Oswald's Manlicher Carcano rifle raises another set of issues. It was a cheap, mediocre, inaccurate model of rifle at best, with a poorly aligned scope. Before the assassination, a cousin of mine who was a teen at the time had bought the same rifle from the same ad as Oswald. He found the rifle to be hopelessly inaccurate.
Who killed Kennedy? My suspicion is that he was killed by a CIA generated plot because they concluded that Kennedy was a dangerous security risk due to potential blackmail over his compulsive womanizing and secret contacts and deal with the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
By private information, I know that "Maurice Bishop" was the cover name for CIA officer David Atlee Philips. A Cuban emigre' testified that he saw him meeting with Oswald before the assassination. The most likely scenario is that Oswald was a CIA asset manipulated into a plot that made him the fall guy for a sophisticated conspiracy.
In addition, the assumption that a bullet wound does not cause a body to react toward the shot, is false. Look up the story of actor Leo Gordon:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330388/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
EXCERPTS:
Gordon served five years in San Quentin State Prison for armed robbery (during which he was shot several times point-blank by police--and survived).
[about working with John Wayne in Hondo (1953), in which Gordon played a villain who gets killed by Wayne] In the scene . . . where he kills me down by the stream, I reach for my gun and he shoots me.
I buckled up and pitched forward. Wayne hollered, "Cut! Cut!", even though John Farrow was directing. Wayne says to me, "What was that? When you get hit in the gut with a slug you go flying backwards".
I pulled up my shirt to show [John Wayne] where I'd really been shot in the gut [by police while being arrested for armed robbery many years previously]: "Yeah? I got hit point blank and I went forward".
“Oswald’s Manlicher Carcano rifle raises another set of issues. It was a cheap, mediocre, inaccurate model of rifle at best, with a poorly aligned scope. Before the assassination, a cousin of mine who was a teen at the time had bought the same rifle from the same ad as Oswald. He found the rifle to be hopelessly inaccurate.”
Oswald was a mere 80 meters away when he opened fire on Kennedy. Even a mediocre marksman using a cheap, sh1tty rifle could hit a man sized target fairly easily, and Oswald was a Marine-trained sharpshooter so he was better than average.
The DEEP STATR actors protecting themselves again...
Oswald was the Deep State’s stooge while the real shooter or shooters took the shots.
It should be obvious to any reasonably intelligent person who has read the Warren Commission Report and their insane fabrication of the “magic bullet” that the conclusion Oswald was a lone shooter is just another self serving government coverup.
That may have seemed like a radical conspiracy theory back in the 1960s.
But after 60 years of similar government criminal actions and the ensuing coverups we know that the government is not to be trusted when it comes to politically motivated extra constitutional action.
I don’t believe Oswald had anything to do with it. His body language when he said he was patsy looks to me like he was angry, not worried, because he knew he could prove where he was when it happened. That’s why he had to die.
According to the Warren Commission account, Oswald brought his rifle into the TSBD disassembled, which meant that he had no chance to re-center his scope by practice firing after he reassembled it. Arguably, Oswald might have used the less finicky open iron sights, but that requires a higher degree of ability.
In Kill Zone, A Sniper Looks At Dealey Plaza, Vietnam veteran Marine sniper Craig Roberts concluded that the shots attributed to Oswald were impossible for Oswald and even for Roberts in the time allotted.
Or secrets involved in killing witnesses or nosy people (Dorothy Kilgallen).
Yup. Kilgallen thought that she was on the verge of breaking the JFK assassination wide open based on research into Jack Ruby, attorney Melvin Belli, and New Orleans mobster Carlos Marcello. As it was, Kilgallen seems to have been murdered by someone with mob ties, with her autopsy shuffled into the mob-controlled Brooklyn medical examiner office. In that era, the CIA and the Mafia had a close working relationship.
And Biden also has released some...not all.
And frankly...I don't give a damn either way.
Oh pleeeez...Biden wouldn’t/didn’t release them either...
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