The New JFK Documents Are Searchable at the Mary Ferrell Web Site.
Jefferson Morley
December 28, 2021
The 1,491 newly-declassified but very old JFK documents released on December 15, 2021, can now be searched and downloaded at the Web site of the Mary Ferrell Foundation.
For a useful overview of these files, read this excellent summary from MFF president Rex Bradford.
MFF provides this invaluable research capacity as a public service. If you want to support the mission of full JFK disclosure work in 2022, click here.
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The Majority Report: “The Lone Gunman theory …. has gotten less credible over time.”
Jefferson Morley
December 22, 2021
Here’s my best take. I spoke to CSPAN on December 20, with my comments smartly excerpted and discussed here by @MattLech and @EmmaVigeland.
Annals of Absurd JFK Classification
Jefferson Morley
December 20, 2021
For 29 years and two months, the CIA redacted the words “with the Australia security service” from this JFK document on the grounds that its disclosure would cause an “identifiable harm” to national security.
…JFK on KMUD’s Heroes and Patriots
Jefferson Morley
December 19, 2021
I recently spoke about the latest in JFK news with John Sakowicz and Mary Massey, hosts of Heroes and Patriots, a biweekly show about politics and policy, broadcast on KMUD Radio in northern California.
…JFK Files Withheld in Full
Jefferson Morley
December 18, 2021
Here’s a list from the National Archives of JFK assassination files that are still withheld in their entirety.
…The Complicated Case of James Angleton
Jefferson Morley
December 17, 2021
I recently spoke with Justin Black, host of the the SpyCraft101 podcast, about The Ghost, my 2017 biography of the legendary counterintelligence chief.
JFK Is Not a Culture War
Jefferson Morley
December 17, 2021
One thing I like about the JFK assassination story: it’s a place where left and right (and center) can all agree. My friend James Rosen and I have very different politics and we still have illuminating conversations about JFK. For example:
…What’s Missing From the New JFK Document Release
Jefferson Morley
December 17, 2021
In this piece for POLITICO Phil Shenon hews to the official theory of a lone gunman, but he makes an important point about the CIA’s changing JFK story. In 2013, the CIA’s Chief Historian David Robarge admitted the Agency had misled the American people about the man who supposedly killed Kennedy.
…Five Questions About Biden’s Dec. 15 JFK Disclosures
Jefferson Morley
December 14, 2021
December 15 is the next deadline for federal agencies to release files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 58 years ago. What will we see? Last month, I offered some “smoking gun” possibilities in the Miami Herald. The pro-CIA Washington Decoded pooh poohs the idea that the JFK files contain anything of significance.
And that’s the JFK debate in a nutshell. There’s the people, like Harvard professor Cass Sunstein, who say, in effect, A little man killed a big man, get over it. And there’s the people, like Nobel Prize laureate Bob Dylan, who respond, Some big men killed a big man–and they got away with it. Who is right? This week will offer some clues.
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A Documentary Does Justice to Tink Thompson, the First Scholar of JFK’s Assassination
Jefferson Morley
December 9, 2021
Don’t let the dumb subtitle put you off. This is not a documentary about “conspiracy.” ” Produced by the ABC News affiliate in the Bay Area, JFK Unsolved is a quality production that explores and explains Last Second in Dallas, the new book by Josiah (“Tink”) Thompson that sums up his 50 years of investigation of the death of John F. Kennedy. Thompson’s work is, in a word, rigorous.
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Up in Medecino County
Jefferson Morley
December 4, 2021
The Anderson Valley Advertiser in northern California picked up my Miami Herald piece on where to find the JFK smoking guns. It brought back happy memories of reading Alex Cockburn.
…JFK Redacted: Operation Northwoods Was Approved and Never Cancelled
Jefferson Morley
December 3, 2021
In a thoughtful interview on the David Pakman Show, the host and I differed on the last of the JFK assassination files to be released in the next year by order of President Biden.
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What Bob Dylan Told Me About the Assassination of JFK
Jefferson Morley
December 3, 2021
Bob Dylan played in DC tonight. I didn’t have tickets so I have to settle for re-upping my Lit Hub tribute to “Murder Most Foul”
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JFK’s Assassination Explained For British History Channel
Jefferson Morley
December 2, 2021
When History Hit, a British history channel, asked me for an interview about the 58th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, I hastened to agree, especially when they said they’d throw in a hundred dollars for my trouble. “A hundred quid is always welcome,” I said to my new-found Cousins. Stateside news outlets are rarely so fair to free-lance talent. …
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