The National Archives declassified over 13,000 files pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Thursday, after President Joe Biden’s order to release them on Dec. 15.
Congress voted to “eventually” disclose “all Government records concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy” in a the Records Collection Act of 1992.
At the time, the records were nearly 30 years old, and now 30 years later Biden agreed to release more than 13,000 documents.
The profound national tragedy of President Kennedy’s assassination continues to resonate in American history and in the memories of so many Americans who were alive on that terrible day,” Biden’s memorandum said.
The document stated that “the need” to protect the records has eroded over time.
“It is therefore critical to ensure that the United States Government maximizes transparency by disclosing all information in records concerning the assassination, except when the strongest possible reasons counsel otherwise.”
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been reviewing the 16,000 records that had been heavily redacted since 2018.
According to Biden, 70 percent or them have been released in full to the public.
Biden gave the NARA, who complained that the COVID pandemic had slowed down the review process, “temporary postponement” over the documents that protect against harm to “intelligence operations” amongst others, until June 30, 2023.
According to the 1992 law, the federal government were required to release all “non-exempt” files related to Kennedy’s assassination in 2017, when former President Donald Trump disclosed 2,800 documents.
Biden’s White House has previously disclosed 1,500 records in 2021.
Hours after the documents dropped, Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported that the CIA was “involved” in Kennedy’s Nov. 22, 1963 murder.
Carson detailed that it was “a pretty extraordinary sequence of events,” that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was gunned down by Jack Ruby on camera in the Dallas Police headquarters.
“A lone gunman murders the president of the United States,” he remarked.
“And then, less than 48 hours later, that lone gunman is himself murdered by another lone gunman. What are the odds of that?”
The Warren Commission Report found that both Oswald and Ruby acted alone and “there was no conspiracy of any kind.”
“It would be nearly 50 years before the CIA admitted under duress that in fact, it had withheld information from investigators about its relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald,” Carlson explained.
He said that the explanation seemed so unplausible to the American people, that the term “conspiracy theory” was created in 1964.
Carlson detailed that his team “spoke to someone” who was able to access the still redacted CIA documents about Kennedy’s death.
We asked this person directly, “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American President?”
“And here’s the reply we received verbatim. Quote, ‘The answer is yes. I believe they were involved. It’s a whole different country from what we thought it was. It’s all fake.'”
“This is someone with direct knowledge of the information that once again is being withheld from the American public.”
“And the answer we received was unequivocal. Yes, the CIA was involved in the assassination of the president,” he said about the source.
Carlson stated that “forces wholly beyond democratic control” are “more powerful” than the officials who oversee them, and “can affect” the outcomes of elections.
“They can even hide their complicity in the murder of an American president,” he continued.
In other words, they can do pretty much anything they want,” Carlson concluded.
“They constitute a government within a government mocking, by their very existence, the idea of democracy.”