What will Biden do about the last of the JFK files?
Jefferson Morley
March 21, 2021
Come October 26, 2021, President BIden is going to have to make a decision about the last of the U.S. government’s secret JFK files. There’s more than 15,000 of them. Accompanied by jazz drummer, Alan Dale, host of the JFK Facts podcast, I explain what’s going to happen and when.
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26) Who was George Joannides and why is his story important?
Jefferson Morley
August 10, 2019
George Joannides, now deceased, was an undercover CIA officer based in Miami and New Orleans in 1963.
His actions provides strong evidence that certain Agency personnel manipulated Lee Harvey Oswald for propaganda purposes before and after President Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
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Gladwell’s folly: Did a Secret Service man shoot JFK?
Jefferson Morley
March 10, 2016
No, he did not.
The “Secret Service Man Did It” theory is comic in its macabre ludicrousness. It would not be worthy of discussion, except that Bill James and Malcolm Gladwell, and now the Huffington Post, have taken it seriously.
“JFK Second Shooter? New Documentary Makes Radical Claim,” the liberal site reported. The article quotes a couple of cable TV documentarians from the Reelz Channel insinuating, without evidence, that a Secret Service agent killed Kennedy. There is no comment from any historian or journalist who actually knows the record of JFK’s assassination. To date, more than 3,000 people have “liked” the HP story. I have submitted a correction without hope that it will ever be acknowledged.
I could blame Gladwell for this sorry display of public ignorance, but let’s stick to the facts: …
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JFK on secrecy: ‘the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts’
Jefferson Morley
July 15, 2015
“…The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it….And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment….”
President John F. Kennedy’s speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, April 27, 1961
H.R. Haldeman: “We would be in a position to get all the facts “
Jefferson Morley
June 17, 2014
“An investigation of the Kennedy assassination was a project I suggested when I first entered the White House [in 1969]. I had always been intrigued with the conflicting theories of the assassination. Now I felt we would be in a position to get all the facts. But Nixon turned me down.”
– H.R Haldeman, chief of staff to President Richard Nixon, from his book, The Ends of Power (p. 39).
#HowtoSolveJFKin2014: Sunshine on the CIA
Jefferson Morley
February 28, 2014
Sunshine Week comes to Washington March 16-22.
Every year the open government community in Washington, which includes everyone from the nonprofit National Security Archive to Project on Government Oversight to Cause of Action, get together to highlight the need for more open government. JFK Facts will be there too.
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The welcome mat at JFK Facts
Jefferson Morley
February 8, 2014
JFK Assassination Scenarios is the Facebook page for a closed group that proclaims it is dedicated “solely for the purpose of putting forward YOUR strongest theory regarding WHY JFK was assassinated, What conspiratorial faction was involved, and How the assassination was pulled off.”
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‘Americans for less secrecy, more democracy’
Jefferson Morley
February 3, 2014
If you’re one of them (or a non-American with the same desire), check out Open the Government.org, Follow them @openthegov
Open the Government is a coalition of dozens of open government groups in Washington that challenge the surveillance and secrecy state at every turn.
#HowtoSolveJFKin2014: If the courts don’t work….
Jefferson Morley
February 2, 2014
I agree with Karl Golovin about the need for a public vigil in the case of the suppressed CIA files on JFK. Public protest is not my thing but if the courts fail then we may not have a choice. So I endorse Golovin’s call for a meeting and the Kennedy Center is as good a place at any. I’ll be there.
(Full disclosure: Golovin has some opinions about the Sept. 11 attacks that I disagree with.)
Ken O’Donnell on grassy knoll shots
rexbradford
January 31, 2014
“I told the FBI what I had heard [two shots from behind the grassy knoll fence], but they said it couldn’t have happened that way and that I must have been imagining things. So I testified the way they wanted me to. I just didn’t want to stir up any more pain and trouble for the family.”
– Kennedy aide Kenneth O’Donnell, quoted by House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr. in “Man of the House,” p. 178. O’Donnell was riding in the Secret Service follow-up car with Dave Powers, who was present and told O’Neill he had the same recollection.
Who was ‘Maurice Bishop?’
Jefferson Morley
January 30, 2014
Earlier this week, we reported on a newspaper interview with former CIA agent Antonio Veciana in which he talked about JFK’s assassination and the CIA man he knew as ‘Maurice Bishop.’
From Citizens for Truth About the Kennedy Assassination, here’s the essential background on this long-standing JFK mystery that has now been clarified:
“Maurice Bishop…was David Atlee Phillips.”
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Charles De Gaulle: “Cowboys and Indians!”
rexbradford
January 30, 2014
“Vous me blaguez! [You’re kidding me.] Cowboys and Indians!”
– French President Charles DeGaulle, on being briefed by a reporter on the lone-nut theory of the Kennedy assassination. Quoted by David Talbot in “The mother of all coverups.”
JFK’s cousin talks on the 50th anniversary
petervoskamp
January 29, 2014
Kerry McCarthy, the daughter of President Kennedy’s sister, spoke at the JFK Lancer conference in November 2013, and I was lucky enough to be there.
(Skip ahead to Deb Conway’s introduction, which begins at 2:00)
JFK Lancer is a business founded on these premises:
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