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by Steve Byas October 20, 2022

“What are they hiding?” asked Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, in response to a lawsuit filed Wednesday that seeks to force the release of documents the government is still keeping secret concerning President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963.

The Mary Ferrell Foundation, the largest online source of JFK assassination records in the country, filed a federal lawsuit against President Joe Biden and the National Archives. Biden issued a memo last year delaying the release of an estimated 16,000 records under the 1992 John F. Kennedy Assassinations Records Collection Act, which required the release of all the documents to the public by October 26, 2017. But President Donald Trump opted to delay the release, and Biden has followed suit in a show of bipartisan stonewalling.

Kennedy’s nephew, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (whose own father was slain by an Arab nationalist in 1968), supports the effort to force release of the records. “It was a momentous crime, a crime against American democracy,” Kennedy said. “The law requires the records be released. It’s bizarre. It’s been almost 60 years since my uncle’s death. What are they hiding?”

It is a good question from the nephew of the late president, who has been in the news as a major critic of the policies of Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose promotion of Covid vaccines while simultaneously opposing treatments for the virus have made him quite unpopular.

“It’s high time that the government got its act together and obeyed the spirit and the letter of the law,” said Jefferson Morley, the vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation. Morley is considered an expert of both the assassination and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

One can only speculate as to what the government could be hiding about a tragic episode that took place nearly 60 years ago, but the government’s reluctance to release the still-secret documents has generated much guessing and multiple conspiracy theories as to what really was behind the assassination. (It should be noted that, contrary to the way the media ordinarily uses the term “conspiracy theory,” such theories are not necessarily false, as there have been conspiracies all throughout human history. The validity of a theory should be judged by the evidence supporting it, and some are true, some are false, and some are no doubt a mixture of both).

After the assassination, President Lyndon Johnson appointed a commission to investigate the assassination, a commission led by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and many prominent political figures, including future President Gerald Ford. The Warren Commission concluded months later that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot Kennedy from the Texas School Book Depository Building in Dallas.

This conclusion — that Oswald acted alone, with no conspirators — has drawn much criticism and is not believed by the vast majority of Americans.