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posted by martyb on Thursday October 26 2017, @05:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the for-the-record dept.

Update: 2,800 documents will be released tonight, others may be released on April 26, 2018.

Update 2: Documents have been released.

Update 3: Check this live feed: JFK files: government releases classified assassination documents – live

John F. Kennedy, often better known as JFK, was the United States of America's 35th President. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963.

The deadline for the release of redacted and withheld records from the JFK Assassination Records Collection is today. Of the approximately 5 million pages in the collection, about 11% are redacted and 1% are withheld in full:

According to the [JFK Assassination Records Collection Act], all [JFK assassination-related] records previously withheld either in part or in full should be released on October 26, 2017, unless authorized for further withholding by the President of the United States. The 2017 date derives directly from the law that states:

Each assassination record shall be publicly disclosed in full, and available in the Collection no later than the date that is 25 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, unless the President certifies, as required by this Act, that –

(i) continued postponement is made necessary by an identifiable harm to military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or conduct of foreign relations; and

(ii) the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

The Act was signed by President Bush on October 26, 1992, thus the final release date is October 26, 2017.

Some records related to grand jury information and tax return information will remain withheld, as specified in Sections 10 and 11 of the Collection Act.

Although the current President of the United States could authorize the non-disclosure of any documents in the collection, that action appears unlikely:

Few seem as excited about the release of the final batch of secret documents from the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy as the current occupant of the Oval Office. "The long anticipated release of the #JFKFiles will take place tomorrow," President Trump wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. "So interesting!"

Surely, then, it was just a coincidence that Mr. Trump posted that message while on Air Force One heading to, of all places, Dallas. Or was it? Fifty-three years and 11 months after the event that gave rise to a thousand conspiracy theories, the president even landed at Dallas Love Field Airport, where Kennedy's body was brought for the final flight home, and his motorcade came within a few miles of Dealey Plaza, where the fateful shots rang out.

[...] "Of all the presidents since 1963, this is the one who would mind the least if the release of these documents damaged the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., two organizations that he's very angry at at the moment," said Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Thursday October 26 2017, @10:23PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 26 2017, @10:23PM (#588025) Journal
    Unless the Jew in question happens to be Meyer Lansky [wikipedia.org], you'll probably be sorely disappointed. JFK had strong support from the Jewish community as a whole, due in large part to his stance on civil rights and maybe his family connections. But one of JFK's principle enemies was the Mafia due, so I understand, both due to Bobby Kennedy's aggressive crackdown on organized crime as the US Attorney General and to JFK's lack of success in reversing the Castro revolution (the Mafia had lost some valuable Cuban property after the Batista regime was overthrown by Castro in 1959). Lansky managed an influential Jewish faction of the Mafia (and as I understand it owned some of those Cuban properties) which would certainly have been capable of managing an assassination attempt of the US President. So he would have had some degree of motive. OTOH, he had a long track record of not making enemies or calling attention to himself. The assassination of a US president would be very high profile and risky.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @12:18AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @12:18AM (#588069)

    Um, khallow? You know you are responding to Eth, do you not? I don't think it was a serious comment, it was Eth, racist anti-semitic Eth. Don't do this, khallow. You are making SoylentNews look bad.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Friday October 27 2017, @03:54AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 27 2017, @03:54AM (#588116) Journal

      You know you are responding to Eth, do you not? I don't think it was a serious comment, it was Eth, racist anti-semitic Eth.

      I sure do. I occasionally subscribe to the MDC school of calling a troll's bluff.

      You are making SoylentNews look bad.

      What exactly did I do? Reply to E-F as if he were serious? And why should that make SN look bad?

      Let us keep in mind that just like most other large groupings of people, Jews do contain a few people of extraordinary wickedness or ruthlessness. And the JFK assassination has these very fishy elements to it just because the assassin was killed before he could state his piece.