2024 Is the Right Time for a New JFK Records Act

All three presidential candidates have taken a stand on the last of the assassination files. Will Congress act?

U.S. Capitol (Wally Gobetz/Flickr)

Why is it that the terrible events of November 1963 figure in the increasingly tense presidential election of 2024?  Why does the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place before a majority of voters were born, still figure in public discourse?  

Has the smog of conspiracy theories distorted public und…