Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don’t yet point to conspiracies

From CIA criticism to royal scandals and Israel: What we found in Kennedy files

More than a week after the US government released tens of thousands of documents related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination, historians and online platforms have begun publishing significant findings from these declassified records. President Donald Trump ordered the release of over 60,000 documents via presidential executive order, prompting researchers to meticulously examine them in search of meaningful information that might illumi…

JFK files: It's not about who killed him, but what the CIA hid

Many were disappointed by the recent release of the JFK files, frustrated by the apparent lack of answers to decades-old questions. The problem? They’re asking the wrong question.Everyone wants a "who"—a smoking gun, someone to blame. It’s understandable; Americans crave justice for a slain president, to hold the culprits of one of the 20th century’s greatest crimes accountable. But the real answer isn’t a "who"—it’s a "what." That "what" is the…

JFK files released sixty years later.

This is my quick summary of the JFK assassination document release. The biggest revalation is that CIA's Angleton was almost certainly using Oswald in some type of operation, but definite proof that he was under close scrutiny by Angleton himself over 4 years. Jefferson Morely explains that we now have a clear fact pattern that did not exist prior to this release.  Another important revelation is the story of CIA office Gary Underhill, who told …

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

When the final, declassified records from the John F. Kennedy assassination files were posted on the National Archives’ website last week, the first document researchers and reporters searched for was White House adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s June 1961 memorandum to the president titled “CIA Reorganization.” ABC News led its initial coverage on the release of the JFK papers with that document, quoting Schlesinger’s now unredacted, dramatic, s…

JFK autopsy witness to speak at SLU

HAMMOND — With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy back in the news, the topic of Southeastern Louisiana University’s College of Education’s annual speaker series is rather timely.

JFK conspiracy theories won’t die

One of the most controversial things that can happen at any American table is to start talking about the JFK assassination and then say: ‘I think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.’ Thanks to decades of theories, counter-theories and Hollywood movies, a majority of the American public have for many years believed that there was a