JFK Most Wanted: The Joannides File
Coming soon, thanks to Trump's order: the secrets of a CIA officer involved in the surveillance of Oswald and the stonewalling of Congress.
[Editor’s note: This is the first installment of JFK Most Wanted: The Series, which was prompted by President Donald Trump’s executive order to release all files related to the JFK assassination. JFK Facts will be filing daily reports in the coming days. Read background on the series here.]
When Rex Bradford and I started the JFK Facts blog in 2012, we had lost patience with the lame press coverage of JFK’s assassination. Major media stories about the events of 1963 were routinely marred by lies and misstatements, and the press often sanctimoniously disparaged anyone who questioned obvious errors as a “conspiracy theorist.” We knew we could do better.
We had deep experience in journalism and programming. We had high-quality archival sources and high-tech capabilities for analyzing them. Rex, a programmer, had already launched the website of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, hosting the internet’s largest search…



