Courtesy of Bill Simpich:

January 23, 2025

Cohen is a Democrat, Schweikert and Burchett are Republicans.   These Congressmen have been in contact with many JFK researchers, and this ten point plan shows that there has been good communications among many people with differing political views.

Note that this letter calls for a new search by all agencies to conduct a new search that will immediately turn over all documents “pertaining to the assassination”, as well as an independent oversight board to ensure that it gets done, as well as immediate digitizing of all JFK documents in the hands of the Archives.

To circulate the letter, here it is:  https://cohen.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/cohen.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/JFK Docs Release LTR 1-23-25.pdf

If we can get more Congresspeople and other elected officials and members of the public to sign on to this letter or offer their support to the ten points in this letter, it will make a real difference in the days ahead.   

The plan for the release of JFK records is scheduled to be revealed on Friday, February 7.   This is the best plan out there.

RELATED:

Federal judge who examined JFK files previews what to expect

Judge John Tunheim chaired the JFK Assassination Records Review Board

FARGO (KVRR) – A federal judge in Minneapolis who oversaw the collection of government documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is pointing out what to look for when the records are finally unveiled.

U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim was chairman of the JFK Assassination Records Review Board. The panel examined every government file related to the assassination—including those that still remain sealed from the public.

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order for the government to declassify all documents related to the assassination.

“There is a big category of records I would like to see and the public should see,” Tunheim said in an interview with KVRR Local News.  “Those are the KGB surveillance records on Lee Harvey Oswald for the time he lived in the Soviet Union. This is a remarkable cache of records.”

“I think there are records bearing on our relationships with foreign governments at the time that were considered way too sensitive to release. We protected some of that information, I think we will see some of that.”

Tunheim says unfortunately, some information will never be recovered, including records connected to Oswald’s visit to Mexico City just weeks before the assassination took place.

“Those records were taken over by counterintelligence two or three weeks into the investigation. Most of that has not been located. So I have no doubt that records like that…the Secret Service had destroyed some records, we know about that.”

Tunheim says several of the records remain in the custody of the Russian government and says perhaps Trump’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin can be beneficial. “I think this would be a real treasure trove for investigators,” he said.

Tunheim says he’s still somewhat concerned that the U.S. intelligence community may try to pressure Trump into withholding some documents like they did in 2017, but remains hopeful that everything will finally be released.

Courtesy of The Kennedy Beacon

A day after President Trump signed an executive order to declassify records related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has weighed in on X, on an issue close to his heart.

“JFK warned that ‘The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society’”; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secrecy,” wrote Kennedy. “We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has been outspoken about his desire for assassination records to be released to the public. In 2021, for example, he along with his cousin, Patrick Kennedy, expressed deep disappointment when former president Biden postponed the release of documents related to the JFK assassination.

At the time, Kennedy told Politico: “It’s an outrage against American democracy. We’re not supposed to have secret governments within the government.” He continued, “How the hell is it 58 years later, and what in the world could justify not releasing these documents?”

In addition to postponing the declassification of JFK documents in 2021, the Biden administration continued to block their release in 2022 and 2023 as well.

In his post today, Kennedy echoed his earlier sentiments, writing:

The 60-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation employed by Intel officials to obscure and suppress troubling facts about JFK’s assassination has provided the playbook for a series of subsequent crises — the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9/11, the Iraq war and COVID — that have each accelerated the subversion of our exemplary democracy by the Military/Medical Industrial Complex and pushed us further down the road toward totalitarianism.

Kennedy continued, “A government that withholds information is inherently fearful of its citizens’ ability to make informed decisions and participate actively in democracy.”

Trump’s January 23 executive order stated, in part:

The Executive Order establishes the policy that, more than 50 years after these assassinations, the victims’ families and the American people deserve the truth. Specifically, the Order directs the Director of National Intelligence and other appropriate officials to: (1) Present a plan within 15 days for the full and complete release of all John F. Kennedy assassination records; and (2) Immediately review the records relating to the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations and present a plan for their full and complete release within 45 days.

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepares for his hearing before the Senate Finance Committee next week, he closed his X post by thanking President Trump “for trusting American citizens and for taking the first step down the road towards reversing this disastrous trajectory.”

RELATED: President Trump’s Executive Order dated 23 January, 2025 and Statement by AARC president, Dan Alcorn

AARC welcomes the action of President Trump to attempt to bring about full disclosure in the assassinations of President Kennedy, his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. AARC and the research community stand ready to assist this process by pointing to information that may lead to fuller disclosure, and suggestions on how the process may be conducted. The new government disclosure process must do more than examine records that have previously been examined.

Here is President Trump’s Executive Order dated 23 January, 2025:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1.  Policy and Purpose.  More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events.  Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.  It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.

The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 required all records related to the assassination of President Kennedy to be publicly disclosed in full by October 26, 2017, unless the President certifies that:  (i) continued postponement is made necessary by an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations; and (ii) the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.  President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, section 5(g)(2)(D), Public Law 102-526, 106 Stat. 3443, 3448–49, codified at 44 U.S.C. 2107 note.

I previously accepted proposed redactions from executive departments and agencies (agencies) in 2017 and 2018, but ordered the continued re-evaluation of those remaining redactions.  See Temporary Certification for Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 82 Fed. Reg. 50,307–08 (Oct. 31, 2017); Certification for Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 83 Fed. Reg. 19, 157–58 (Apr. 26, 2018).  In the Presidential Memorandum of April 26, 2018, I also ordered agencies to re-review each of those redactions over the next 3 years and disclose information that no longer warrants continued withholding under the standard set forth in section 5(g)(2)(D) of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.

President Biden issued subsequent certifications with respect to these records in 2021, 2022, and 2023, which gave agencies additional time to review the records and withhold information from public disclosure.  See Temporary Certification Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 86 Fed. Reg. 59,599 (Oct. 22, 2021); Certifications Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 87 Fed. Reg. 77,967 (Dec. 15, 2022); Certification Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 88 Fed. Reg. 43,247 (June 30, 2023).

I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue.  And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest.

Sec. 2.  Declassification and Disclosure.  (a)  Within 15 days of the date of this order, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General shall, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Counsel to the President, present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

(b)  Within 45 days of the date of this order, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General shall, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Counsel to the President, review records related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of these records.

Sec. 3.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b)  This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c)  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 23, 2025.

Phillip Nieto | Jan 19th, 2025, 6:44 pm|

President-elect Donald Trump vowed to declassify all documents relating to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

During his speech at Capitol One Arena in Washington D.C. on Sunday evening, the incoming president said he would “reverse the over-classification of government documents” by declassifying long held information by national security agencies.

He noted that not only will documents relating to the Kennedy and MLK Jr. assassinations be declassified, but also “other topics of great public interest.” Robert Kennedy’s son, RFK Jr., is set to join the Trump White House as secretary of Health and Human Services.

“As a first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over classification of government documents. And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And other topics of great public interest. It’s all going to be released, Uncle Sam.”

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