{"id":244607,"date":"2021-10-27T07:37:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T07:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244607"},"modified":"2021-10-28T05:46:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:46:54","slug":"an-outrage-against-democracy-jfks-nephews-urge-biden-to-reveal-assassination-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244607","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An Outrage Against Democracy\u2019: JFK\u2019s Nephews Urge Biden to Reveal Assassination Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Caputo \u2013 Global Research Oct 24, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Two nephews of <\/em>John F. Kennedy<\/em><\/strong> are calling on the Biden administration to release the final trove of secret documents on the 1963 assassination of the former president.<\/em><\/p>\n

The records were scheduled to be made public Tuesday, but the White House announced late Friday night that it would delay their publication until at least Dec. 15 \u2014 and perhaps longer if President Joe Biden determines it\u2019s in the nation\u2019s best interest to keep them confidential.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an outrage. It\u2019s an outrage against American democracy. We\u2019re not supposed to have secret governments within the government,\u201d Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told POLITICO. \u201cHow the hell is it 58 years later, and what in the world could justify not releasing these documents?\u201d<\/p>\n

His cousin, former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy<\/strong>, said the records should be released not because of his family, but because American citizens have a right to know about \u201csomething that left such a scar in this nation\u2019s soul that lost not only a president but a promise of a brighter future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for the good of the country, everything has to be put out there so there\u2019s greater understanding of our history,\u201d Patrick Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

The documents were set to be declassified in 2017, but President Donald Trump postponed the release for four years.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s decision to continue Trump\u2019s policy of shielding the records came as a surprise to historians and experts on the assassination because he had served in the U.S. Senate when the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 passed unanimously in Congress. That act, passed in response to questions raised by the 1991 Oliver Stone film \u201cJFK,\u201d set up an independent review board to collect all government files that might have bearing on the assassination and make them public. Most records were released between 1994 and 1998. Only the most sensitive classified documents remain confidential.<\/p>\n

Biden was first elected to the Senate nearly a decade after Kennedy\u2019s assassination and campaigned with former Sen. Ted Kennedy, the late president\u2019s brother and the father of Patrick Kennedy, as a youthful Irish-American kindred spirit to the political dynasty.<\/p>\n

The White House declined to comment on the record, issuing a background statement saying that \u201cthe National Archives advised that their review of classified material was severely hampered by COVID-19 since classified material cannot be reviewed remotely and asked for more time.\u201d The coronavirus first hit the U.S. in early 2020, more than 27 years after the JFK Records Act passed and more than 56 years after Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Pointing to the presidential memorandum<\/a> it released late Friday, the White House promised in a written statement that the \u201cpublic will have access to a tranche of previously withheld records and redacted information withheld in previously released records\u201d and that the \u201cBiden Administration is setting up a whole-of government effort to ensure the maximum possible disclosure of information by the end of 2022.\u201d The president\u2019s memo also directs the National Archives to come up with a plan to digitize the entire collection of documents, more than 300,000 records.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Trump declined to comment about why he delayed the full release of the records in 2017 after indicating he intended to make them public.<\/p>\n

Among other unanswered questions, the records could shed light<\/a> on whether a Central Intelligence Agency operative named Bill Harvey<\/strong> mysteriously traveled from Rome to Dallas before the assassination as well as the agency\u2019s role in plots to kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro<\/strong>, its surveillance techniques.<\/p>\n

An overwhelming majority of the 15,000 records in question are from the CIA and, to a lesser extent, the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Portions of them have been released with single words or entire pages blacked out, according to the National Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If the records are ever released, they probably would not reveal the identity of other potential killers of Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy Sr.<\/strong>, brother of the president and namesake of the son who spoke with POLITICO, did not believe the official narrative of the assassination, said historian David Talbot<\/strong>, author of \u201cBrothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years\u201d and \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Chessboard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRFK was the first JFK \u2018conspiracy theorist,\u2019 the attorney general of the United States,\u201d Talbot said. \u201cAny serious journalist or historian who looks at this seriously comes to the same conclusion: that Lee Harvey Oswald was what he said he was, \u2018a patsy,\u2019 and that the Warren Commission was an effort to cover up the crime, not investigate the crime in an honest way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. concurred with his father\u2019s belief that his uncle was assassinated as part of a broader conspiracy. Kennedy, a controversial figure in his family because of his anti-vaccine advocacy, also said he did not believe that Sirhan Sirhan killed his father, putting him at odds<\/a> with his siblings and other relatives.<\/p>\n

Both he and Patrick Kennedy said their family had shied away from discussing the JFK assassination and related matters because it was too painful, even to this day.<\/p>\n

Patrick Kennedy declined to comment on whether he believed the official story of the assassination. He said he wasn\u2019t sure the documents would be released Dec. 15, but he ultimately hopes that Biden will do the right thing and make them public. He also described the president as someone \u201cwho loves my family, and this country, and has a heart that\u2019s full of compassion and love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re living in a time of a lot of conspiracy theories. There is a tendency to distrust government in general,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a whole lot of bureaucratic obfuscation. Every agency needs to exercise their own right to redact certain portions [of the records] which you know is what fuels the whole conspiracy theory.\u201d<\/p>\n

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