Top Secret JFK Assassination Files Finally Get Released And Here Is What You Need To Know.
By
Michael Avery in
Facts
On 27th October 2017
JFK was assassinated while riding in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963. There is grainy footage of the tragedy captured by Abraham Zapruder that shows the horrifying moment that a large chunk of his brain was shot off while his wife, Jackie, ended up being covered in blood. It is widely accepted fact that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine, is the man who fired the deadly rounds. That was until today when the majority of the top-secret details were finally released.
Those specific details were confirmed in a document containing 888 pages that was presented to Lyndon B. Johnson later in 1964. This document became known as the Warren Commission report. The report has been largely criticized for its omissions, it's methods of gathering evidence and it's conclusions.
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The National Archives published close to 3,000 formerly sealed and or censored documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on October 26th, 2017. Still, the White House says they will be delaying the release of the remaining documents.
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A law that was passed in 1992 after the movie JFK inspired new conspiracy theories, ordered the National Archives to release all documents regarding the assassination by 12:00 A.M. 10/27/2017 unless the president had any objections based on national security.
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President Tump allowed the National Archives to release of 2,891 of the estimated 3,140 documents. The remaining documents are subject to review for 180 days to check for redactions from other agencies that might object. The White House says that the remaining records will be made public "on a rolling basis in the coming weeks."
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Tump had this to say while announcing the delay: "I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted. At the same time, executive departments and agencies have proposed to me that certain information should continue to be redacted because of national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns," he wrote. "I have no choice — today — but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our Nation's security."
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He also warned agency heads to be "extremely circumspect" in asking for further postponing of the remaining documents, saying: "The need for continued protection can only have grown weaker with the passage of time."
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"The President wants to ensure there is full transparency here. He is expecting agencies to do a better job in reducing conflict within redactions and get this information out as quickly as possible." a senior administration official said during a briefing.
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The CIA released a statement about the redactions saying that they were there to protect information that could "harm national security, including the names of CIA assets and current and former CIA officers, as well as specific intelligence methods and partnerships that remain viable to protecting the nation today."
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The agency continued: "Every single one of the approximately 18,000 remaining CIA records in the collection will ultimately be released, with no document withheld in full."
President Trump, who is no stranger when it comes to conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination, seemed to be eager to get the latest JFK documents released.
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It remains to be seen if the documents will help to satisfy the thousands of conspiracy buffs who think that the Warren Commissions finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman involved in the slaying of President Kennedy was a lie.
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Kennedy's assassination rocked the nation to its very core and created a conspiracy buzz that continues to speculate over who was really behind the murder to this day.
National Archives officials tried to make it a point to downplay any expectations that the documents would contain any new revelations. They have stated repeatedly that 90% of the information available about the assassination is already public.
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Former Secret Service agent, Clint Hill, the man who attempted to shield JFK and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy said that he hopes the documents shed some light on why Oswald did what he did.
He told MSNBC: "I'm hoping that within that material — and there's lots of it — there will be some indication as to the motive, the reason why he did what he did."
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Hill blames himself for JFK's assassination saying that he didn't move fast enough when everything went down.
He said: "Deep down, I still have that sense of guilt that I should have been able to get there quicker and I didn't. I was the only one who had a chance to do anything."
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The documents that were released were reviewed and vetted by the Assassination Records Review Board. This group was created out of the frenzy that occurred following the release of Oliver Stone's conspiracy film "JFK." This film popularized the theory that JFK was actually murdered by rogue CIA and FBI agents and that the government covered it up.
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The ARRB released the bulk of the JFK assassination paperwork two years after it was founded. The new documents were marked "NBR," or Not Believed Relevant, the panel's chairman, John Tunheim, said in March at a National Press Club conference in Washington.
"It's not that important to keep protecting it," he said. Still, he added, "I think there will be stuff interesting to researchers."
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About 200 pages of the new batch are expected to delve into the six-day visit that Oswald, a onetime Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union, made to Mexico City just before Kennedy's assassination. One of the juiciest stories is likely to be that of June Cobb, a CIA spy working in Cuba and Mexico, who reported that Oswald had been spotted in Mexico City.
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Cobb, born Viola June Cobb in Ponca City, Oklahoma, died Oct. 17, 2015, in New York, where she was living at a Manhattan senior center, an official there and her former sister-in-law told NBC News.
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Tunheim said in March that the CIA, the State Department, and other federal agencies balked at releasing the Mexico City paperwork "because it was thought to be detrimental to our relationship with the Mexican government at the time."
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You can watch the Zapruder film below.
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