Rep. Steve Cohen Renews Call for a JFK Review Board

Calls on President-elect Trump to deliver on his promise to release all assassination-related file

Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) issued the following statement this week.

“This week marks sixty-one years since that tragic and defining day, November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.  Yet, after all these years, there are still government documents and materials being kept secret. The American people deserve to know what the federal government knows about the assassination. Congress made its intention clear and set a deadline for all the assassination documents to be released – yet as that date passed, both former President Trump and President Biden bypassed the legislation and kept the remaining documents under seal.   During his campaign, former President Trump promised to release the remaining documents.  This is promise I encourage him to keep.” 

Following up on the JFK Records Act, Congressman Cohen is working closely with historians, lawyers, journalists and advocates to craft new legislation establishing a Board to oversee the archive and ensure public access to its contents.