President Donald Trump is making good on his promise to release all the documents pertaining to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. This has been a LONG time coming for many, many people. It bothered me in high school when I realized how much my government was holding back and it made a lot of my classmates mad too (this was right at the time the movie JFK was out).
But after sixty-two years since this collection began to coalesce, we're finally getting a look at it all.
Here's the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection's main page at the National Archives. A lot of stuff had been made public already. But what you're probably most interested in is what has been released because of Trump's executive order. That stuff started getting dumped a few days ago: more than thirty-three thousand pages across nearly twelve hundred PDF documents. Here's the link to that newly-released material, and word on the street is that there's more still to come.
What do I think so far? I've only had time to peruse a little bit of it but there is some interesting stuff in there, a lot of it having to do with anti-communist activities on the part of the American government in the early Sixties, especially in regard to Cuba. I found one document describing how a ballerina dancer was actually a communist agent.
But most people are going to want to home in on the meaty stuff pertaining to the assassination. And they are finding some interesting things. Among the more fascinating come upon so far: Gary Underhill, a CIA agent who stated the day after the killing that there was a clique within the agency that was responsible for carrying it out. A few months later Underhill was found dead, it was ruled a suicide. Just one more mystery among the pile of the biggest enigma in American history.
Back in 2016 when I was traveling across America with my dog Tammy, we spent a few weeks in Texas and during that time I got to visit Dealey Plaza in Dallas. This was it: the most analyzed patch of land in the annals of man. This is where all the theories span out from and where many more converge again. And after a lifetime of wanting to see it for myself I was finally there.
Here are some of the pictures that were taken...
