Final Cache of Secret JFK Assassination Records Set for Release This Year James Eli Shiffer - Star Tribune
go to original May 2, 2017

Retro Report explores decades of conspiracy theories - from the John F. Kennedy assassination to Pizzagate - and what they can tell us about how we view the world today. (Retro Report)

Weeks before he murdered President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald traveled to Mexico City and visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in search of a visa.

Documents that show what the government knows about that 1963 trip have been kept secret for more than 50 years. Now, these records are among the remaining sealed documents about the JFK assassination set for release in coming months.

Unless President Donald Trump intervenes to stop them, the National Archives will make available tens of thousands of pages of previously unseen records on or before Oct. 26. That’s 25 years to the day President George H.W. Bush signed the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which created a five-member board that reviewed and released millions of pages of records before it disbanded in 1998.

One of the main advocates for disclosing the files is the chairman of the panel, John Tunheim, the chief federal district judge for Minnesota.

Those expecting revelations about the “grassy knoll” or mobster ties to Oswald are likely to be disappointed.

“We never redacted anything that we felt was centrally related to the assassination story, even if it was very sensitive,” Tunheim said in an interview Monday. “Bombshell information about Lee Harvey Oswald, for example, you’re not going to find in these records.”

The Kennedy assassination set off intense and enduring conspiracy theories, spawning countless books, articles and even Oliver Stone’s motion picture “JFK,” which Tunheim said drove Congress to pass the JFK records act to set the record straight.

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Related: Donald Trump to Decide Whether to Release John F Kennedy Assassination Files (Independent UK)

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