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Will Trump Buckle Again on the JFK Records?

 A fascinating situation has now developed between President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment with respect to the long-secret JKF-assassination-related records that the CIA has succeeded in keeping secret for more than 60 years. Despite Trump’s campaign vow to release those records, it’s not at all clear how this matter is going to be resolved. I will give my prediction at the end of this article.

There are three major factors at play:

1. During his 2024 campaign, Trump vowed that this time around he is definitely going to order the National Archives to release those 60-year-old secret CIA records. Moreover, as he told Joe Rogan, he is going to do it “immediately.” See “Trump to Rogan: If Elected, I’ll Open Remaining JFK Files ‘Immediately’” by Jefferson Morley.

Let’s place this first factor in a historical context.

The JFK Records Act, which was enacted in 1992, ordered the national-security establishment and all other federal agencies to disclose their JFK-assassination-related records to the public.

However, the law gave federal officials an out. If they claimed that the release of certain records might jeopardize “national security” in various ways, they could keep them secret for another 25 years. Yes, 25 additional years of secrecy, on top of the secrecy from 1963 to the 1990s! Taking advantage of that out, the national-security establishment, especially the CIA, continued keeping thousands of its assassination-related records secret.

That 25-year-period ran out during Trump’s first term as president. At first, Trump declared valiantly that he was going to comply with the law and permit the National Archives to release and disclose the records.

But then just before the deadline arrived, Trump was visited by the CIA, who insisted on continued secrecy of its assassination-related records.

Trump immediately buckled. While allowing some records to be released, he did what the CIA wanted him to do and ordered that thousands of other records continue to be kept secret for another few years.

When the new deadline occurred under President Biden, the CIA convinced Biden to continue the secrecy of the records into perpetuity. Thus, the CIA felt it could now sleep easy, knowing that its long-secret assassination-related records would never see the light of day.

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Unraveling JFK: The Conspiracy Theories That Just Won’t Die

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 remains a subject of intense scrutiny and debate, particularly within the context of modern political discourse. Recent conversations, especially among supporters of former President Donald Trump, have revived interest in various conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy’s death. Many attendees of commemorative events at Dealey Plaza express doubts about the official government narrative, which claims that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

The Warren Commission, established to investigate the assassination, concluded in its 1964 report that Oswald was the sole shooter. However, decades of skepticism surrounding this conclusion have fueled alternative theories. Recent polling data indicates that approximately 65% of Americans question the findings of the Warren Commission, suggesting a persistent mistrust of official narratives.

Individuals like Nelson Vargas and Jeff Fulginiti have come forward, suggesting that the assassination involved wider conspiracies that included elements of the military-industrial complex, organized crime, and possibly even high-ranking government officials. Vargas articulated his belief that government entities collaborated to orchestrate Kennedy’s death, while Fulginiti pointed out the apparent motives behind these factions.

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It’s Time to Rationally Re-Investigate the JFK Assassination

A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his presidential campaign to endorse former President Trump. As Kennedy joined Trump on stage, Trump announced that, if he is elected, he will immediately declassify all records related to the JFK Assassination that continue to be held by the National Archives – something Trump failed to do during his last term. Trump also announced that he would form a commission on assassinations, which would include looking at his own assassination attempt, and the murders of Robert Kennedy, Sr. and President John F. Kennedy.   

Whether it is former President Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris, America desperately needs leadership that will provide transparency into these historical events. While the declassification of remaining JFK assassination records would be a wonderful development, the most important thing that could be done to regain the trust of Americans in their intelligence agencies is to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 

Most Americans know that the Warren Commission determined in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone to kill President Kennedy. Fewer Americans are aware of the conclusion of a congressional committee – the House Select Committee on Assassinations – in 1978 that President Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” Yes, you read that correctly. The recent government investigation into the JFK Assassination determined that there was a conspiracy. 

After Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, was released in 1991, the public outcry to remove the shroud of secrecy around this historical event resulted in the JFK Records Act, which was passed unanimously and signed into law by George H. W. Bush. The JFK Records Act required the declassification of records and created the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), which forced the respective agencies to turn over records and sit for depositions. 

The work of the ARRB and subsequent declassified documents led to a mountain of new information about the assassination that has now had sufficient time to be absorbed by JFK Assassination scholars. The weight of that evidence now establishes by a standard of clear and convincing evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone to kill President Kennedy. 

So, what evidence has been unearthed that would justify the time and resources of reopening the JFK Assassination? There are at least ten indisputable facts that establish that President Kennedy was killed as the result of a conspiracy, all of which are explored in depth in a book that I co-authored with James DiEugenio, Paul Bleau, Andrew Iler and Mark Adamczyk called The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: 

  • Interviews with numerous insiders who worked on previous investigations, from the Warren Commission to the HSCA to the ARRB, confirm that the Warren Commission got it wrong. 
  • Oswald had indisputable connections to intelligence agencies. 
  • Oswald was impersonated by others on numerous documented occasions. 
  • Oswald could not have been on the sixth floor when the shots were fired. 
  • Jack Ruby’s murder of Oswald was not in the heat of passion. It was premeditated. 
  • There were at least two other prior plots to kill President Kennedy before Dallas. 
  • Best practices for conducting autopsies were not followed for President Kennedy, resulting in an evidentiary mess. 
  • The single bullet theory cannot be true. 
  • There is overwhelming evidence of shots fired in front of President Kennedy. 
  • There has been sixty years of obstruction of justice, which was apparent in each investigation, and continues to exist today. 

When we put these bodies of evidence together, it is clear that President Kennedy was not killed by a lone assassin. Researchers and authors have speculated as to who was behind the conspiracy and whether Oswald was involved at all over the years. Still, we do not know exactly who killed President Kennedy. 

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Never-Seen-Before Video Shows the Moments After JFK Assassination

A never-seen-before video of the moments after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas, in 1963 has emerged.

The newly merged video shows President Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway heading towards the hospital, where Kennedy was later pronounced dead.

Stephen Fagin, the curator at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, stated, “These images, these films and photographs, a lot of times, they are still out there. They are still being discovered or rediscovered in attics or garages.”

People Magazine reported the footage was filmed by Dale Carpenter Sr., a Dallas truck driver who filmed the tragedy near the Stemmons Freeway.

James Gates, the grandson of Carpenter, who inherited the video after his grandfather passed away, shared, “The film was stored in a plastic Dean Foods milk crate and had been in my closet for several years before I decided to put it in a fire safe.”

The 8mm home film is now set to be auctioned in Boston at the end of September.

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Robert Kennedy Jr.: If the CIA Killed JFK We’ll Know

On Monday night, Tucker Carlson released a compelling interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., following Kennedy’s recent decision to suspend his presidential campaign and endorse former President Donald Trump.

The conversation, which was posted in full on his X account, revealed Kennedy’s newfound commitment to ensuring Trump’s victory in the upcoming election.

During the discussion, Tucker Carlson and Robert Kennedy Jr. discussed the CIA’s involvement in President Kennedy’s assassination.

Robert Kennedy felt this was an important enough clip that he published it on his YouTube page.

Tucker Carlson: In your joint appearance on Friday, President Trump introduced you by saying that he plans to, if elected, establish a commission to declassify the remaining documents, regarding your uncle’s murder in 1963. I think everyone at this point knows the truth, which is the CIA is implicated in that. Those documents protect CIA, maybe among others.

Robert Kennedy Jr.: Well, whether they do or not, it’s odd that they’ve not allowed them to be released.

Tucker Carlson: What could possibly be the explanation?

Robert Kennedy Jr.: More than 60 years after my uncle’s death, It was 65 years. Oh, it was 62 years after his death. None of the people who were implicated in that crime are alive now. The last ones have died off in the last year or two. And so, it clearly is to protect the institution. That’s wrong. It’s just wrong. It’s wrong for a Democrat, and it’s wrong for a Republican.

Tucker Carlson: It’s just interesting, though, that a bipartisan list of presidents, – these six decades have kept those files classified.

Robert Kennedy Jr.: Well, you and I have both. I was astonished that Trump didn’t declassify them because he promised to during the campaign. That was Mike Pompeo who did that. Yeah, and I talked to President Trump for the first time about that this week.

Tucker Carlson: What did he say?

Robert Kennedy Jr.: He said that Mike Pompeo begged him to… I don’t think I’m telling tales out of school here. No, I think he told the same thing to you. That’s true. But he said Mike Pompeo called him and said, This would be a catastrophe to release this. You need to not do it.

Tucker Carlson: I want to say again, I think Mike Pompeo is a criminal, so that’s my view. He threatened to sue me for saying that, but I hope he will because that’s true. But that tells the whole story right there, right? That the CIA is-… Why would the CIA be trying to keep these files classified if they had nothing to do with the murder?

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Tucker Carlson Shares Details on Jack Ruby’s Sudden Death by Cancer After Being Visited By CIA Psychiatrist Involved in MKUltra

Alex Jones recently interviewed Tucker Carlson on Info Wars, and the founder of the Tucker Carlson Network had some interesting facts to share regarding Jack Ruby’s death.

Jack Ruby, who was born Jacob Rubenstein, was a nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald just two days after Oswald was accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

Tucker told Jones, “You do sort of wonder of how Jack Ruby died of galloping cancer like a week before his second trial.”

Jones added, “They have weaponized cancer that will kill you in two weeks.”

Tucker continued CIA psychiatrist, “Joylon West visits him, and next thing you know, ‘oh, I have terminal cancer. I’m dead in a week.’”

According to CIA declassified documents, Joylon West did administer special techniques to Ruby shortly after being jailed for the murder of Oswald.

In a report released by the CIA titled “Report of Examination Psychiatric Examination of Jack Ruby,”  it was revealed West used “hypnosis and intravenous sodium pentothal” techniques on Ruby.

Before becoming Ruby’s psychiatrist in prison, West was known for taking part in MkUltra, which was a CIA program that used LSD to brainwash and psychologically torture people.

West was also infamous for killing an elephant with LSD in 1962, which makes it even more bizarre that the CIA tagged him to take care of Ruby in jail just a year later in 1963.

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Unearthed claim about JFK and Bobby Kennedy’s involvement in Marilyn Monroe’s death… and all the signs it wasn’t a suicide, revealed by MAUREEN CALLAHAN: ‘I know who killed her’

She may have been the biggest star in the world, but this was going to be the most important night of Marilyn’s life: Headlining a fundraiser that would double as President John F. Kennedy’s 45th birthday party, on May 19, 1962, at Madison Square Garden.

Now the world would finally know: She and the married American president were a thing.

And what a headline that would be: Marilyn Monroe, the world’s biggest movie star, and the president of the United States!

He was going to leave his wife, the admired but frosty Jackie, and marry her. He had said as much, and Marilyn believed him. Once he won re-election, he would be free to make her the next First Lady of the United States.

It wasn’t so crazy: Marilyn had Jack on her hook for years, long before he was in the White House.

For this most pivotal night, Marilyn wanted to look like the German sex-siren Marlene Dietrich, but edgier, more risqué.

So she’d turned to Dietrich — herself a former lover of both Jack Kennedy and his father Joe — and the star had sent Marilyn to her own designer, the French costumier Jean Louis.

The result was a gossamer, flesh-toned dress glittering with thousands of hand-beaded rhinestones, so figure-hugging that it had to be sewn onto Marilyn’s body, so tight that she couldn’t wear underwear.

Half an hour before her performance at the Garden, Marilyn was in her dressing-room when the president’s brother, Bobby, arrived at the door. They spent 15 minutes alone together.

Marilyn knew both Kennedys wanted her, and she wanted both of them. Jack, of course, had the charm and power, but Bobby had a kind of gravitas that attracted her.

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“This Isn’t a Conspiracy”: Watch RFK Jr. Lay Out How and Why the CIA Killed His Uncle

In an appearance with Tim Pool, independent presidential candidate RFK Jr. laid out how and why the CIA, in concert with organized crime, assassinated his uncle John F. Kennedy. The assassination was part of his uncle’s larger battle with the military-industrial complex.

“The group that killed him was a group from the Miami Station and they were angry at him for his failure to overthrow Castro, and they were angry at him because he was pulling out of Vietnam.”

RFK Jr. laid out in detail how members of the CIA colluded with “mobsters” who had been involved in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion and other attempts to oust or assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

He also laid out the key role of CIA director Allen Dulles, whom his uncle fired after the Bay of Pigs. According to RFK Jr., Dulles continued to direct the CIA after his dismissal, and he was also instrumental in ensuring the Warren Commission, convened after President Kennedy’s assassination, directed its attention away from the CIA.

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CIA Secrecy On JFK Points To Criminal Culpability

More than 30 years ago, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Enacted in the wake of Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, which posited that the Kennedy assassination was a regime-change operation on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, the law mandated that all the assassination-related records of the Pentagon, the CIA, the Secret Service, the FBI, and other federal agencies be released to the public. Having succeeded in keeping their assassination-related records secret for almost 30 years, they didn’t like that at all.

Today — more than 60 years after the assassination — the CIA continues to keep thousands of its assassination-related records secret. Its justification? You guessed it: “national security,” the two most powerful and meaningless words in the American political lexicon. CIA officials maintain, with straight faces, that if those still-secret assassination-related records were released, the United States would fall into the ocean, be taken over by communists, or have its “national security” endangered in some other silly way.

How in the world can “national security” be threatened by the release of records that are more than 60 years old, regardless of what definition is placed on that nebulous term? Indeed, how can any American really believe this nonsense? They obviously take Americans for dupes.

It is a virtual certainty that those still-secret records contain circumstantial evidence that further confirms criminal culpability on the part of the CIA and the Pentagon in the assassination of President Kennedy. After all, the CIA knows that that is precisely what most everyone is thinking with respect to the continued secrecy of those records. Why would the CIA want to leave people thinking that? One reason: Because it’s better to have people thinking that those records contain incriminating evidence rather than knowing that they do.

What could the CIA be hiding with those still-secret records? The answer necessarily has to be speculative in nature, but my hunch is that some of the still-secret information deals with Mexico City, where the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was supposed to have met with Cuban and Soviet officials.

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Inside the mystery of Jackie Kennedy’s pink suit: Blood-soaked ensemble worn by former First Lady on the day JFK was assassinated has NEVER been cleaned – and will sit in windowless, climate-controlled room at a secret location for another 80 YEARS

Take a look back at the fascinating true story of the blood-soaked pink suit that former First Lady Jackie Kennedy was wearing when her husband, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated – which has still never been washed, despite being covered in gore, and now sits in a temperature-controlled windowless room in a secret location.

Jackie wore the two-piece set on the fateful day in November 1963 when her husband was brutally killed a mere inches from her while they were riding in the back of an open-topped limo in Dallas, Texas, together.

During the horrific shooting and its aftermath, JFK’s blood splattered across the outfit, but his mourning widow refused to take it off afterwards – and it’s been said that she insisted on continuing to wear it because she wanted his killers to ‘see what they had done.’

The entire world was devastated by JFK’s shock passing and quickly became engulfed in the events that transpired on that devastating day, so it comes as no surprise that the ensemble is now a major part of history.

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