One year ago this week, the Trump administration released 77,000 pages of once-secret records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Information that had been concealed for decades was revealed for the first time.
JFK Facts editor Jefferson Morley reported on what is important in the 2025-2026 (so far) document releases, and why they had been withheld for eight years after the presumed release date.
The point is that the JFK documents released last year should have been released, by U.S. law, in October 2017. Presidents Trump and Biden, and the National Archives, ignored the Final Determination Notices. They flouted the explicit provisions of legislation that were approved unanimously by the House of Representatives and by the Senate, a law that was signed by a Republican president and implemented by his Democratic successor. There could be no clearer demonstration of the will of the people in enacted law.
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