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The JFK Files Released

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Summary:
This webpage was created in response to Executive Order 14176, titled “Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr,” which was signed by President Donald J. Trump on January 23, 2025.

The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection consists of over six million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, and artifacts.

This webpage will host already-released documents and items within the Collection, and will be the future home of documents and items that will be released.

The global hell we're all now going through did not originate in Moscow, and/or Beijing: It came from Langley and the Pentagon—then Dallas

At long last, over 60 years after that dark pivotal event, those who know some of what really happened—or what should have happened—are allowed to speak out loud and clear

MARK CRISPIN MILLER

JUN 01, 2025

Almost from the moment that it happened, the (first) Kennedy assassination was so thoroughly mythologized, and Americans so badly traumatized, that it was near-impossible for all but just a few of them even to doubt the story everyone was told, much less seek the truth about it. Desperate for some comfort, the grieving audience consoled themselves (a bit) by watching the solemn funeral procession organized by Jackie Kennedy—the riderless stallion with the pair of empty boots placed backward in the stirrups, the little boy John, Jr.’s sad salute, the “eternal flame” alight beside the presidential grave in Arlington National Cemetery, the flags all at half-staff, and so on.

Of course, that tearful spectacle was Jackie’s work, for which she was rightly praised, much as she had been extolled for her exquisite taste throughout her too-brief tenure as First Lady. It surely was a splendid obsequy: so grand a send-off that it stuck in everybody’s minds, to the point that certain moments of it still pop up, as old “iconic” moments tend to do—which is unfortunate for all of us, whether we lived through it (I myself was 13 at the time), or see it as ancient history; for that shocking murder, and all too many others ever since, changed everything in ways that nobody back then could have foreseen (except, perhaps, the leading perpetrators); nor did they want to see it (who would?), and so that funerary send-off was gratefully regarded as the—thank God!—coda to that whole shocking tragedy, after which we could “move on” to LBJ (and, as we could not yet know, all his works, and his sponsors’ works, especially abroad, which nullified the works and plans of JFK).

Nor could We the People know (though we would soon find out) that JFK’s murder was but one of many in that era, when the murder’s mighty beneficiaries didn’t stop at the assassination of our president, but had to keep on killing, in one way or another, all those others who were promising great change, and would have helped to make it happen had they been allowed to live. The raging paranoia of the men who really ran the country (and, increasingly, the world) drove them to “roll back” what they all thought, or claimed, was “communism,” by doing to others what they’d done to JFK. I don’t have the time or space to offer you a comprehensive list; but even just a partial list is frightening enough, and very, very telling:

There was Malcolm X, gunned down in Harlem not two years after Dallas; Martin Luther King, Jr., gunned down not three years after that; Bobby Kennedy, gunned down just months later. That quartet alone could well have done great things, since they were all for unity, and therefore had, or could have had, unprecedented mass support—both black and white, and brown and red—for their attempts at peace and (what was not yet a “woke” cliché) social justice. Such unity must be prevented at all costs (I use that tense deliberately), lest we stop battling one another, and, arm in arm, fight them, until they’re all gone on to their reward; and we’ll stand over their graves / ‘Til we’re sure that they’re dead.

Yet those four martyrs (all men of faith, as it happens) were by no means the only ones who were annihilated from on high:

Used as we are to focusing on that quartet, we tend not to include with them such targets as Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers (feared lethally, by J. Edgar Hoover, as a potential “black messiah”); Walter Reuther, who made the UAW a powerful and (genuinely) progressive union, and, therefore, a union that empowered the U.S. working class; theologian Thomas Merton, working tirelessly for peace in Vietnam, through cogent letters to important people; Medgar Evers, killed (a few months prior to Dallas) by a racist nobody who (to quote Dylan again) “was only a pawn in their game”; and all those others killed in furtherance of the plot to kill the president, from Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby to Dorothy Kilgallen, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and enough others to fill several books.

And then there are those targets who’d been interfering with various CIA/military operations—especially wars: Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, for trying to broker a just peace in the Congo; the charismatic Congolese nationalist Patrice Lumumba, whose large following could surely have made him a “black messiah” in Africa; Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam, and his brother Nhu, the corrupt Dinh having now become a liability in the U.S. war effort throughout Vietnam; the killing of Argentinian Marxist Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who had been quixotically attempting to make revolution throughout South America; and so on. And then there were the bloody U.S. “actions” that, under LBJ (and the powers that had installed him), radically expanded and intensified the war in Vietnam (although, in his run for president in 1964, LBJ had promised not to do precisely that, while casting his opponent, Barry Goldwater, as a warmonger); brought U.S. forces into the Dominican Republic’s civil war (which killed thousands); covertly encouraged the Indonesian government to slaughter up to a million “communists” (a bloodbath that haunts that country to this day); installed the brutal military dictatorship in Brazil; and otherwise undid JFK’s efforts to avoid such grisly doings worldwide.

We could, sadly, say still more about the later murders of those not “with the program,” like Allard Lowenstein, the (genuinely) liberal Democrat seeking truth about the murder of Bobby Kennedy, and John Lennon, killed for reasons that are still not clear (both men killed in 1980, at the start of “Morning in America”); and Sen. Paul Wellstone, whose opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq aroused the ire of Richard Cheney (who publicly threatened him for it); and still others, only some of whom we know of, so skilled are the murderers at making deaths look like “accidents” or “suicides.”

That long and far-flung killing spree did not just wipe out certain inconvenient persons, but helped make all dissenting activism seem too dangerous to carry on, to help change the country—and many other countries—for the better. That intimidating strategy effectively began with the assassination of the president whose policies and plans were opposite to those that have made life a living hell for most of us. Where Kennedy sought peace overall, wary co-existence with the Soviets, and nuclear disarmament, his successors have had hot and cold wars going everywhere (compare JFK’s foreign policy with Obama’s), while the U.S. war on Russia (and not just Russia) has us closer to a nuclear holocaust than we have been since the Cuban missile crisis. Where JFK sought self-determination, and economic development, for the poor in South America, through his Alliance for Progress (and elsewhere), since then that continent has sunk still deeper into poverty, chaos and corruption. Where JFK—as too few people know—believed in growth for all, with no Malthusian intentions (as did his brother Bobby, both being Catholics), that vision has been superannuated by a caste of psychopaths intent on world depopulation, guided mainly by the Rockefellers and their peers. And where JFK sought economic justice, and rational equality, standing up to Wall Street, and thwarting the inflationary moves by US Steel and other corporate giants, we now live in a world controlled by billionaires and even trillionaires, for their own benefit alone, while lethal cartels like Big Pharma, Big Tech and Big Media have made life for nearly all of us increasingly impossible.

And those are just a few examples of the havoc wrought by all those murders, beginning with the one committed in broad daylight in the streets of Dallas—a murder that has long been covered up by such complicit agencies and bureaus as the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service and the Pentagon, as well as—or especially—“our free press.” It is therefore a cause for celebration—some might call it a blessing, or a miracle—that Congress has at last resumed its long-suppressed investigative function, by questioning, in public, not the usual lying shills, but real experts on the oddities of that world-changing crime, so that its authors may at last be named, and the powers behind it broken.

Testimony by Dr. Don Curtis of Parkland Hospital:

Dr. Curtis on the two separate wounds—the first one, in the throat, and the horrific head shot—that actually, and quickly, killed the president; and then longtime JFK/Dallas investigator Dan Hardaway recounts his role in the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations study of JFK’s murder, and the CIA’s deliberate interference with it—including not merely the redaction of a crucial document, but its actual retyping:

Doug Horne, former senior analyst for the Assassination Records Review Board, testifies to the absence of certain crucial documents, including the real autopsy report, and JFK skull X-rays, which actually show that there were three headshots, not two, as the Warren Report has it. He also notes the disappearance of JFK’s brain, and the evident forgery of several of the X-rays, as well as tampering with the Zapruder film:

Abraham Bolden, the first black agent in the Secret Service (appointed by Pres. Kennedy), on the malfeasance and depravity of his colleagues, and their outspoken contempt for the Kennedy brothers, who, they feared, would start a Catholic “dynasty” that would rule for the next hundred years:

Jefferson Morley talks about CIA officer George Joannides’ involvement with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination, and false testimony before Congress:

Bob Dylan’s moving and profound (albeit belated) take on the assassination (a masterpiece brilliantly analyzed by Ed Curtin: Link