JFK assassination - more files released by National Archive
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@Horace said in JFK assassination - more files released by National Archive:
Looks like we may soon be in a position to make some judgements on that case.
That sounds hasty. I'll reserve judgment about whether or not we can, or should, reserve judgement.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-releases-jfk-assassination-records-rcna61286
Thousands still not released.
President Joe Biden’s administration released more than 13,000 records of President John F. Kennedy's assassination Thursday, but it fell short of fully complying with the spirit of a 30-year-old law demanding transparency by now.
With Thursday's action, about 98% of all documents related to the 1963 killing have now been released and just 3% of the records remain redacted in whole or in part, according to the National Archives, which controls the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.
The records include more information on accused gunman Lee Harvey Oswald and his time spent in Mexico City.
But about 4,300 records remain redacted in part — with no record completely blacked-out — according to the agency, and experts say there's no justification for withholding them to protect national security or intelligence gathering.
“We’re 59 years after President John Kennedy was killed and there’s just no justification for this,” said Judge John H. Tunheim, who from 1994-98 chaired the Assassination Records Review Board that was established Under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which Biden voted for when it passed Congress unanimously.
Under the JFK records act, all documents related to the assassination were supposed to be released by 2017. But then-President Donald Trump delayed the full publication of all records and ultimately left it in the hands of Biden, who in 2021 delayed full release until Thursday, only to do so again.
Throughout the process, Trump and Biden authorized releases of some information, but those records that remain secret are expected to be the most interesting to researchers, involving government contacts with Oswald.
In a memorandum explaining the release of records and the withholding of others, Biden noted that the records act "permits the continued postponement of disclosure of information ... only when postponement remains necessary to protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure."
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Tucker goes there:
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JFK: What the Doctors Saw, a documentary featuring previously unreleased footage — and the testimony of seven doctors who were there in the emergency room of Parkland Hospital trying to save the then-president’s life after he was shot as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963.
The doctors in the film contend one of the bullets that hit JFK entered through his throat, meaning it was an entrance wound from the front — and that there were potentially two gunmen, with Oswald firing from the rear.
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JFK: What the Doctors Saw, a documentary featuring previously unreleased footage — and the testimony of seven doctors who were there in the emergency room of Parkland Hospital trying to save the then-president’s life after he was shot as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963.
The doctors in the film contend one of the bullets that hit JFK entered through his throat, meaning it was an entrance wound from the front — and that there were potentially two gunmen, with Oswald firing from the rear.
@taiwan_girl said in JFK assassination - more files released by National Archive:
entrance wound from the front
I'm no forensic specialist, but if you watch the film of the shots, you can see JFK clutch his throat when that shot occurs. It make sense that that came from the front, because that would be the natural reaction. If it came from behind, I would have expected a different reaction.
Also, even in 1963, it should have been pretty easy to distinguish an entry wound from an exit wound.
But, I'm no forensic specialist.
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Forget Zapruder
This Encyclopædia Britannica cartoon is pretty convincing.
You can actually see Mr. Oswald and the second shooter.
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Kennedy's first initial was 'J'.
The man who wrote the famously macabre poem The Raven, and many other supposedly fictional works about death had the Christian name Edgar.
In England we call something that vacuums away all the evidence of wrong-doing a Hoover.
Coincidence? You be the judge.
