New JFK Files Are Now Searchable at Mary Ferrell Foundation
Leading JFK site enables what the National Archives does not: quick and easy search of the new records related to JFK's assassination
While the release of long secret files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on March 18 was welcomed by JFK researchers, the rollout was flawed in two ways.
First, the Trump administration released hundreds of documents that contained social security numbers of living persons. Second, the documents published on the National Archives’ JFK page are not enabled for optical character recognition (OCR), which means the new records were not readily searchable. In attitude and execution, it was all very old-fashioned.
The Mary Ferrell Foundation has implemented a 21st-century solution: searchable JFK records that respect privacy. MFF president Rex Bradford announced Wednesday that the foundation’s website (maryferrell.org) now offers all of the latest JFK assassination in searchable form. Social security numbers have been redacted.
So if you want to do your own JFK research, check out the 2025 JFK releases on the MFF website. A nonprofit based in Massachusetts, MFF hosts the largest online collection of records related to JFK’s assassination, as well as the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Go here to view the new JFK documents, sorted by agency.
You can search the Joint Chiefs of Staff records here (four documents). Or you can retrieve all documents mentioning Frank Sturgis (four documents) or James Angleton (69 documents) or Dorothy Kilgallen (two documents) or Carlos Marcello (seven documents). Or you can do your own research.
Heads up: You only get three free searches on MFF. If you want to do more searching, a Supporting Member subscription is $34.95.
And let us know if you find something interesting or significant about the JFK story.
Has Trump released all the important documents that Jeff requested or outlined as most important?
If not, what is still missing?
Has the Joannides File, and internal Miami Station investigative report been found and released yet?
Have the photos of LHO in Mexico City been found?
What’s still missing from the latest batch of released documents?
I don’t want to sound negative here, but my gut tells me that Radcliffe and Gabbard have taken this latest document dump as far as it’s going to go.
If that’s the case I wouldn’t be surprised.
That’s been the sad history of the JFKA research story for 61 years now.
A useful question to ponder today is why?
Who got to them if that’s the current reality?
One subject that I believe has been heavily covered up is the role played by George HW Bush. He's been named by multiple sources:
https://x.com/i/grok/share/WctPEApAwt59cDZgyb7R1UFG1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Secrets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_Denial
https://books.google.com/books?id=pCftxLUdRFYC
...And many more.
There is an interesting attribution to Jefferson Morley from 2018 on the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories
...Which states:
"On the website JFK Facts, author Jefferson Morley writes that any communication by Bush with the FBI or CIA in November 1963 does not necessarily demonstrate culpability in the assassination, and that it is unclear whether Bush had any affiliation with the CIA prior to his appointment to head the agency in 1976.[465]"
Which links to:
https://jfkfacts.org/about-that-lame-bush-conspiracy-theory/
...Which is itself a repost of an original 2013 article.
I wonder if after the releases from the past twelve years, if Jefferson still feels that way?