Five JFK Questions for 2025

CIA demands for secrecy will test Trump's rhetoric on the assassination files

While we learned a lot in 2024 about key events leading up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963—the surveillance of Oswald, the CIA’s doubts about the “lone gunman”—the coming year highlights the challenge of getting the rest of the JFK story out of the grip of a defensive national security bureaucracy.

(Some call this apparatus “th…