JFK Live Tonight: What Is the Point of the JFK Story in 2025?

Why release the RFK autopsy photos? And other questions of the moment.

Last week we talked about “Left, Right, and JFK” with journalist Michael Shellenberger. This week I want to continue that discussion by focusing on the meaning of the JFK story in this political moment: Why does the JFK story matter in April 2025? And how does it matter?

Does full JFK disclosure important because it advances President Trump’s ambition to tame the so-called “deep state?” Does Trump’s advocacy of full JFK disclosure serve his authoritarian agenda?

Or does full JFK disclosure matter because it holds the CIA accountable for abuses of power related to November 22, 1963, and highlights the need for Kennedy’s liberal policy vision today, a vision quite different than Trump’s?

In a related issue, we’ll talk about Robert F. Kennedy’ Jr.’s decision to release the autopsy photographs of his father. Radical transparency? Or unnecessary invasion of privacy?

I ask these questions because I don’t have a ready answer to them.

So join me for a live discussion at 8 p.m. ET tonight about the meaning of the JFK story in 2025.

We’ll make time to take questions and comments from readers like you. So please don’t hesitate to raise your hand.

JFK Live is really just a big Zoom webinar call, open to all.

In case you didn’t know it, this is a non-partisan event.

Go here to join the call at 8 pm ET.