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Government Releases Thousands of Declassified Pages Related To JFK Assassination (go.com) 134

Posted by msmash from the for-the-record dept.
The National Archives has released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. From a report: The records were posted to the National Archives' website, joining recently released records posted in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2017-2018.

"This release consists of approximately 80,000 pages of previously-classified records that will be published with no redactions," said the announcement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. "Additional documents withheld under court seal or for grand jury secrecy, and records subject to section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, must be unsealed before release."

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 23 directing the release of all remaining records related to the assassination, saying it was in the "public interest" to do so. Tuesday's initial release contained 1,123 records comprising 32,000 pages. A subsequent release on Tuesday night contained 1,059 records comprising 31,400 additional pages.

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  • More boring legalese?

  • Must be wetting themselves in glee, more documents to deliberately miss interpret to backup their fantasies
    • If I understand correctly, they're looking for evidence of the Deep State taking out JFK and orchestrating Watergate to take out Nixon as part of their weird fantasy that the Deep State is working on taking out its third President right now.

      It's some weird shit... though I recall my bullshitting with his friends when I was a kid, seriously discussing the idea that the 3 letter agencies took out Kennedy, and that they were blackbagging US citizens daily.
      As soon as I was old enough to start learning histor
      • *recall my dad

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by ufgrat ( 6245202 )

        I've always felt that the Kennedy "conspiracy" was in fact, a number of people and organizations all acting with a similar goal:

        To not be blamed.

        So instead of a wide-ranging conspiracy that would have been exposed by now, you have many separate people and agencies all trying to make damned sure they don't get blamed for a popular president's death. Looks like collusion, but isn't.

        As for Nixon, he relied on unreliable people. They should have just bribed people in the DNC like everyone else.

        • Ya, known communist shoots vehemently anti-communist dude. The dude who owns a nightclub in that town shoots him.
          Smells like conspiracy.

      • The task of blackbagging US citizens has now been assigned to ICE and DHS:

        Julio Noriega is 54 years old, was born in Chicago, and is a U.S. citizen. On January 31, 2025,
        he was walking near the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, handing
        out his resume to local businesses. As he walked out of a Jiffy Lube, he was approached by ICE
        officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van, without an opportunity to explain
        his citizenship. The officers drove Julio and others around

        • It's not assigned to anyone. That was ICE and DHS making a mistake.
          Hopefully the resulting civil rights lawsuit is vicious.

    • The best explanation I've read is there were, indeed, two shooters -- nothing else explains the physical evidence -- but one of them was friendly fire. A CIA agent choked, and possibly had a misfire. So, doubly difficult to unravel, because every theory is right, but no one is all right.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Gilmoure ( 18428 )

        You mean the secret service agent at the front right of the convertable, who turned on hearing Oswald shots and accidently fired hitting Kennedy from the front right; that guy?

        • You mean the secret service agent at the front right of the convertable, who turned on hearing Oswald shots and accidently fired hitting Kennedy from the front right; that guy?

          No, you're thinking of "Pulp Fiction".

      • I presume you're talking about the claim that has gotten recent attention, that Secret Service (not CIA) Agent George Hickey, Jr., accidentally fired his AR-15 when the driver of the chase car he was in suddenly accelerated, his shot hit the back of Kennedy's head, and that the Secret Service was so embarrassed that they conspired to hide the evidence. If so, this claim does not work for several reasons.

        First, if he had fired at the exact moment that Kennedy's head exploded, his fellow agents would have tac

        • Yes, I believe that was the theory. It was in a book I read quite some time ago, maybe ten years ago. Sorry, don't remember the title. The physical evidence that I remember being most convinced about was the wounds, some of which were pretty obviously from steel-jacketed rounds, and the other very much not. But of course I didn't consider this to be "proof", it's just another theory.

          As a history buff, I'm here to tell you that life is exactly like that. The stories we tell to explain the past are highly con

    • I'm sure they'll use it to claim Trump did it, somehow.

  • As in THE government?

    • As in the Deep State, aka The Shadow Government, the Zionist Occupational Government, The Cryptocracy, The New Globalist Order or The Puppet Masters.

      You know, the people who really pull the strings.

      They live.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by gtall ( 79522 )

        You forgot alien influence. You know, the little fellers with big dark eyes.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by ufgrat ( 6245202 )

        "Who are you?"
        "Now, that's really not important."
        "Who are you?"
        "Who decides that the workday is from 9 to 5, instead of 11 to 4? Who decides that the hemlines will be below the knee this year and short again next year? Who draws up the borders, controls the currency, handles all of the decisions that happen transparently around us?"
        "I don't know."
        "Ah! I'm with them. Same group, different department. Think of me as a sort of middleman, and the name is Justin. Come in, sit, sit. The tea is getting cold."
        -- Sheridan and Justin in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum"

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by haruchai ( 17472 )

        Thanks to Elon we know the Deep State is made up of independent auditors, park rangers & veterans filling out forms for other vets, yeah, those treacherous bastards.
        Also lesbians & blacks.

  • Reserving comment (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    I'm not commenting on this until the media tells me how this is bad of Trumusk and what type of anger I should feel about it.

    • Too bad this is posted anon because it's pretty good snark. Why aren't we past the point where we feel the need to hide our names on stupid memes? I think the Social Police have left the building.

      • Too bad this is posted anon because it's pretty good snark. Why aren't we past the point where we feel the need to hide our names on stupid memes? I think the Social Police have left the building.

        Given that there's been very public "swatting" events against people with a certain political slant I'd think people might be reluctant to express their views without use of a pseudonym. I've personally had people track me down based off information gleaned from the internet, fortunately they were mostly people wishing to cordially discuss my online views by phone or USPS, and a few threats that I believed to be unlikely to be serious. I did have a neighbor that called the cops on me, fortunately the loca

    • You can feel the "being distracted from the really important shit" anger.

      Hope this helps,

  • Sigh (Score:2)

    by ledow ( 319597 )

    Like the UFO shite... strange how whenever they release more info, we get no more "signal" for the dumb conspiracy theories. It's almost like they're just not true.

  • You trust the three letter agencies not to have 'lost' the documents they didn't want to come out? Are US bureaucrats that incompetent that they can't ensure they will have disappeared?

    We know that the deep state can put its finger up at the government when it decides to; the failure of Congress to ensure any actual punishment for the CIA's hacking of the legislature's computers and lying about it until they couldn't lie any more shows it's real. Is there a solution? Probably not; every politician is likely

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by DarkOx ( 621550 )

      Right all these decades later, anything that would *prove* the official narrative to be false is long gone. How could it not be. There was easily a period of 25 to 30 years after for which there would have been people with a personal interest in making sure misdeeds never came to light in a position to 'mishandle' things to ensure they never got out.

      We are also now at the point where anyone with first hand knowledge about the post assassination events around containment and forensics is in the ground, and

      • 'we have some concrete proof in these documents of what has been an open secret all along about the CIA organizing and staging protests around the world'

        Except that given the Soviets were indulging in exactly the same behaviour, the question is whether in a warfare situation it is not legitimate to match the enemy's effort. Khomeini's Iran is what you get when you get too fastidious about who you support, while Mobutu's Zaire is what happens when you aren't.

  • Quick, throw them bread! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Malay2bowman ( 10422660 ) on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:29AM (#65246669)
    The masses are getting grumpy, and they are starting to ask very unsavory questions and are harboring very unsavory thoughts about our administration...

    • He's been saying he wants to do this all along. When he was president in 2018 he wanted to release them [apnews.com], but after review they decided to wait 3 more years (which was beyond his first term) to revisit the decision. Most likely because people were still living that could be impacted by information they wanted to release.

      He said it multiple times during his most recent campaign. [sky.com]

      Then the order to release them [whitehouse.gov] was signed almost two months ago.

      This isn't something totally out of the blue, but a topic he's been

      • The files are mostly rereleases without as many redactions, and the redactions don't change much. They're things like which CIA stations were sending cables (e.g., London to Lisbon), some addresses, and even a Social Security Number. Those who were looking for something substantial have expressed anger and disappointment.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ufgrat ( 6245202 )

      Yeah, like "Where's the Epstein files?"

      "Are you an effing moron who doesn't understand economics, trade, foreign relations, and the Constitution?"

      "Or, are you intelligent, and an active agent of a foreign power trying to destabilize the USA?"

  • Congresswoman Paulina Luna was supposed to launch an investigation into the killing. She said she was going to interview members of the Warren Commision, apparently through a seance [yahoo.com].

  • People will waste days pouring over this ancient history. Because the Trump admin want you to waste your time doing so. What they donâ(TM)t want you to know is the level of complicity some people had with Epsteinâ(TM)s activities.

  • iirc we didn't get everything unsealed in what was i, 2013? I don't even see why things like this can get sealed in the first place, except for guilty/embarrassed people in power somehow having the authority to do so?

  • Now do Epstein.

  • Any smoking gun evidence will be redacted.

    • If there ever was any smoking gun evidence, you can bet it went down the memory hole decades ago. Anything left in the files has been well sanitized by this time.

  • Who else you think would do it? JFK wanted to make Israel a foreign agent and he was upset over them steeling our nuclear materials to make a nuclear bomb.

  • Use it as training material for an AI and see what it decides. Then accuse it of being a deep state actor, not a deep learning actor.

  • Funny to see people using this to spread anti-Trump narratives.

    If you read the docs, there's not much exciting in them, except it paints a darker picture of the CIA and American government in general, nothing to do with Trump, since he wasn't in the CIA at that time as far as we know.

  • For all the peasants to see! Come enjoy our gladiator show!
    Pay not attention to the inflation / unemployment / stock market / food pricing / ending the Ukraine war in 1 day!
    See the amazing release of classified information!

    Wait until doge and GOP finish killing the government and they propose privatizing it all... Government doesn't work !! see we broke it. Private will be cheaper!
    Just ask the price on anything they privatized. Highways that were private/public built, jails, etc. The list goes on.

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