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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Time and Politics 25: JFK Documents to be Released


"The files may shed light on what the CIA knew about assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK’s death." Image Source: Carl Mydans—Life Picture Collection/Getty Images/ Time.

Documents which were previously partly or fully withheld in relation to John F. Kennedy's assassination as well as other withheld documents about the ill-fated Camelot presidency are set to be released by the United States National Archives and Records Administration on 26 October 2017. Some of these documents have already been released.

Image Source: Disclose TV.

Click to enlarge. Image Source: NY Mag.

You can see a list of the documents here, and a discussion on how much we will really be able to read here. The documents include a personality assessment of Lee Harvey Oswald (although some claim a whole volume on Oswald has mysteriously 'gone missing' prior to this release); records on prime suspects in the assassination plot; records on Jackie Kennedy and several figures connected to the investigation, including former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (who gained fame in Oliver Stone's film JFK (1991)).

The main site for the release is 2017JFK.org. They give instructions for access here:
"This release consists of 3,810 documents, including 441 formerly withheld-in-full documents and 3,369 documents formerly released with portions redacted. The documents originate from FBI and CIA series identified by the Assassination Records Review Board as assassination records. More releases will follow. To view the entire file, you may visit the National Archives at College Park and request access to the original records."



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