The federal government claims it cannot say when, if ever, it will comply with a federal lawsuit seeking records related to the 1963 assassination of then-President John F. Kennedy.
The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch reports it “announced in a report to the court in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) stated it ‘cannot fully predict’ when records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be released.”
“The National Archives needs speed up the release of the Kennedy records! At this rate, it will be decades before the files even partly are made available to the American people,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
The National Archives tells Judicial Watch it estimates that there are “over six million pages” of responsive records.
Judicial Watch reports it “filed the February 2025 lawsuit after the National Archives failed to respond to a January 20, 2025, FOIA request.”
Judicial Watch sued for “All previously unreleased records in the possession of the National Archives and Records Administration regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This request includes, but is not limited to, all records transferred to NARA by the Assassination Records Review Board.”
But the National Archives states in a “joint status report” to the court:
[National Archives] cannot fully predict when records responsive to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request will be released online because of the volume of material, the complexity of the digitization process, and the remaining restrictions on access such as grand jury and court sealed information, taxpayer information protected by 26 U.S.C. § 6103, deeded materials, and intellectual property. [National Archives] will continue to work diligently to process [Judicial Watch’s] request and post records online on a rolling basis.
Additionally, fulfilling [Judicial Watch’s] request for records of the ARRB [Assassination Records Review Board] itself will be labor intensive. The [Assassination Records Review Board] records are part of the JFK Collection but do not meet the definition of an “assassination record” within the statute…. These records, which have not previously been fully reviewed for public release, must be digitized and reviewed line-by-line for FOIA exemptions.
Both Judicial Watch and the National Archives “propose updating the court as to the status of the processing of records on or before July 28, 2025,” Judicial Watch reports.
On January 19, 2025, then President-elect Donald Trump announced he would release the “remaining records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”
On January 23, Trump issued an executive order stating:
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.
Judicial Watch notes “the National Archives claims that since January 23, 2025, it has posted approximately 80,000 pages of responsive records online.”
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How many can still be left in “The Swamp” who were involved in the Kennedy murder & resulting cover-up ?
Who is hiding who/what that We the People have a right to know ?
Most realize the LBJ was deeply involved in it already, he HAD to get rid of all of the Kennedys for his schemes to work.
And LBJ held a grudge in that JFK was nominated in 1960 instead of him.
Where do you think Hillary learned the “It’s MY TURN” line ?
With so many pages of records, it takes a lot of time to go through them and obfuscate, delete, or destroy the smoking gun items.
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I shot JFK, James Files
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How about a law that requires automatic arrest and jailtime for non-compliance, by top NARA officials, of a FOIA request? NARA should have no authority what-so-ever in deciding what documents should be or not be released.