The sad killing of President John F. Kennedy 59 years ago is one of America’s biggest unsolved mysteries, and on Thursday, the National Archives finally provided some answers by making more than 13,000 documents available to the public for the first time. Even if more documents are still being withheld under Joe Biden’s presidency, we may still be waiting for answers and a definitive conclusion to this historic day. Nevertheless, there is hope that these hitherto secret documents will at long last give us more information about JFK’s passing.
Almost all of the records connected to President John F. Kennedy’s murder have been made public nearly a century after it occurred. According to ABC, 97 percent of the documents have finally become public after five years of waiting and legal restrictions, providing fresh insight into one of the worst disasters in American history!
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The sad assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas on November 22, 1963, stunned the entire globe. Only two days later, Jack Ruby decided to take matters into his own hands and kill Lee Harvey Oswald before he could be brought to justice for this horrible crime. However, even at that point, there were still some doubts as to whether or not a bigger conspiracy had been at play. Many views about what actually transpired during those turbulent days that eternally reshaped America have emerged through the years.
Biden stated that other records will be kept on hold until June 30 in the presidential directive Thursday ordering the release of the JFK materials.
“Temporary continued postponement of public disclosure of such information is 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,” Biden wrote in his memo.
According to Politico, the documents released Thursday suggested that the CIA’s office in Mexico “bungled evidence that, had it been passed on quickly to the Secret Service and other agencies in Washington, could have saved Kennedy’s life.”
The CIA provided an explanation of its reasons for wanting certain of its records to remain secret longer on Thursday. 13,173 documents in all were made available.
“What little information remains redacted in CIA records in the Collection consists of intelligence sources and methods — some from as late as the 1990s, provided initially to give the JFK Review Board overall context on the CIA — the release of which would currently do identifiable harm to intelligence operations……CIA believes all of its information known to be directly related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has already been released. Likewise, we are not aware of any documents known to be directly related to Oswald that have not already been made part of the Collection,” the CIA said in a statement, according to ABC.
The CIA’s long-standing fascination with Lee Harvey Oswald was made abundantly clear by Politico’s revelation that a wealth of information about his life will soon be made public. The information could provide fresh insight into the enigmatic past of one of America’s most notorious figures.
According to Politico, the document release could reveal further information regarding an important trip Oswald conducted to Mexico City in September 1963. Previous document disclosures have shown Oswald made touch with Soviet and Cuban agents there, including a KGB agent with assassination experience.
Larry Sabato, author of the “The Kennedy Half Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy,” said he expects no game-changers, according to CNN.
“It’s not going to change the story. It’s not. I guarantee you,” he said.
Sabato said that the Dallas tragedy wasn’t a product of a nefarious scheme but rather a regrettable outcome of negligence.
“The truth is not that Oswald was part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. The truth is that this assassination was preventable and could have been prevented and should have been prevented if the CIA and FBI were doing their jobs. Really, that’s it. Now that’s serious, but you’re not going to find the names of other conspirators in here,” he said, per CNN.
According to one document, during Oswald’s visit to Mexico City in October 1963, the CIA “intercepted a telephone call” he made to the Soviet Embassy there “under his own name.” According to the report, Oswald spoke “broken Russian.”
When Oswald asked about the whereabouts of a mystery telegram despatched to Washington, he was informed that it had already been sent. There was not much left unsaid when the conversation came to an end.
“Our Mexico City Station very often produces information like this on US citizens contacting Soviet bloc embassies in Mexico City. Frequently the information we get is extremely incriminating,” the document said.
Despite the Mexico City agents’ best efforts, they had not received a response to their request for a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald by November 22, the tragic day that President Kennedy was killed. Sadly, there would never be a chance to compare a picture of him to one that was taken outside the Soviet Embassy.
When papers are disclosed this week, attorney Mark Zaid, a national security specialist who has previously pursued information pertaining to the JFK murder, does not expect finding any compelling proof. He told Politico that finding “a smoking gun” is unlikely.
Zaid also noted that “so much of this information should have been released a long time ago.”
