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Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Post by adamredwoods »

Most of the documents were declassified already, I think 99% of 170,000 files or some large number. This was through the The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. I don't know what's to gain in this release other than closure?

Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Post by skissane »

addicted wrote: post #11
RajT88 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am sure it makes some TLA look bad. I fully expect to not have everything released.

The FBI. The FBI was out for MLK. In his first term Trump liked the FBI so he allowed them to redact the JFK files he was legally supposed to release to the public. But in 2025 they’re his bogey man so releasing it so Kash Patel has an even easier time remolding it in his image makes a lot of sense.

If the FBI had really done it, I doubt they would have left classified records saying they had. Most likely, either the records would have been destroyed long ago, or they never would have created any in the first place

Other possibility: they really didn’t do it, but there’s some classified record which sure makes it sound like they did. e.g. some record of J. Edgar Hoover joking about doing it

Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Post by LastTrain »

adamredwoods wrote: post #53

Most of the documents were declassified already, I think 99% of 170,000 files or some large number. This was through the The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. I don't know what's to gain in this release other than closure?

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Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Post by adamgamble »

bag_boy wrote: post #40

Tangentially related: My coworking space is a century old hardware distribution building in Birmingham, AL. It's about a 1-2 miles away from the predominantly African American neighborhood that was constantly bombed in the 50s. I was told the FBI searched the building a few decades ago in the hopes of finding the rifle used in MLK's assassination. Birmingham was a wild town for many years!

Is this innovation depot?

Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Post by ttyprintk »

stevenwoo wrote: post #19
dgfitz wrote: post #2

Surely nobody sees this as a bad thing. It’s been a bit since these events happened.

During his first term, Trump was the one who stopped all the records from being released automatically. This is his MO, to claim as victory something that would have happened without him opening his mouth in the first place.

I don’t get the downvotes; this is factually true. We don’t know what Pompeo told Trump in 2017, when the records would automatically release the remaining 3,648 by law, yet Trump blocked. Biden released 2,672 of those. Unless he finds a secret stash, Trump can’t beat those numbers now.
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