–Release the Bay
of Pigs Reports , the Joannides file
and all the remaining government records on the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy - May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963
Pursing the Negative Template
Most American presidents and historical figures are honored
on their birthday, but few people would know that May 29th is the
birthday of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United
States , and instead, we think of him on the
day he was murdered.
While his birthday goes unrecognized, everybody who was
alive at the time or with any sense of history registers November 22 with the
assassination of President Kennedy, just as December 7th and
September 11th are recognized as watershed benchmarks of modern
American history.
John F. Kennedy was born on May 29th 1917 in the master bedroom on the
second floor of 83 Beals Street , Brookline ,
Massachusetts . The Harvard educated
Navy war hero would be elected to Congress, serve as a U.S.
Senator and President of the United States
until he was assassinated while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas
on November 22, 1963 .
Although the Kennedy family says they would rather celebrate
JFK’s life, administration and policies rather than his death, they are annually
seen kneeling by the eternal flame at the Arlington
grave site every November 22nd, and his life and policies go generally
unheralded as we live through the 50th anniversary of his
administration.
The Bay of Pigs was duly noted, the establishment of the
White House Situation Room (WHSR) was honored by naming it after Kennedy, and
the Cuban Missile Crisis will be remembered, but the 50th
anniversary of the assassination is greatly anticipated with a plethora of
feature articles, books, documentary films and major motion pictures due out
over the next few years.
This renewed interest in the assassination is expected to
fuel the debates over whether the assassination was the act of one deranged
gunman or the result of a well planned and successfully executed conspiracy,
and add credence to the call for the release of the remaining records related
to the assassination that are still being withheld by the government.
Conspiracy theorists, who outnumber those who defend the Warren
Commission’s lone-gunman conclusion by an eight to one margin, are both united
in the call for the release of all the remaining government records on the
assassination, which was mandated by a law that is not being effectively
enforced.\
The JFK Act of 1992, although “the law of land,” has seen no
Congressional oversight despite the flagrant destruction of files, the loss of
many records and the continued withholding of thousands of records, in the name
of national security, despite the fact they were created nearly fifty years
ago.
Professor Peter Dale Scott, who has studied the
assassination closely, suggests a “Negative-Template” thesis in which the most
significant records are those that are destroyed, missing or with held, and
that any investigation of the assassination itself should focus on those
records.
There are a number of active efforts underway to replicate
the destroyed files, locate those that are missing and to free those that are
being withheld, all without the support and cooperation of Congress, the courts
or the administration.
Despite the reluctance of Congress to conduct oversight
hearings of the JFK Act for the past fifteen years, there is an active internet
lobby effort to at least try and convince Congress to do its job, however
unlikely that seems.
The courts have recently ruled against release of the
remaining withheld internal CIA report on
the April 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, and seem reluctant to order
the CIA to release their operational files
on the now deceased CIA officer who ran the
anti-Castro Cuban group that the accused assassin associated with, and who
later effectively stonewalled the House Select Committee on Assassination
(HSCA), assigned to investigate the assassination.
The President, in his first act in office, issued an
Executive Order that called for the implementation of a new policy of transparency
and open government, and established the Declassification Review Board, which
at first said it was going to place a high priority on topics of public
interest, including the JFK Assassination, but has since back-tracked and may
not pursue any JFK assassination records at all.
Jim Lesar wrote a letter requesting the NARA
to A – that goes unanswered, as does the suggestion for the NARA
to create a special project to declassify the JFK Assassination Records, as
they have done with the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile
Crisis.
When the NARA
asked for public input, Dan Alcorn suggested they create the special
assassination records project, and with over three dozen public votes and
positive comments, the suggestion was the top rated idea presented on the
public forum.
Yet, NARA
has so far failed to respond.
The JFK Act requires all the records to be released by 2017
but it is widely expected that the CIA and
other agencies will request the President to continued withholding these
records indefinably on grounds of national security. This date should be
accelerated and the records released by 2013, which can happen if they are
included among the records reviewed by the NDC .
Regardless of whether there was a conspiracy to kill
President Kennedy, there is certainly one to hide the true record of his death,
as a group of distinguished British historians put it, “there has never been a
more subversive, conspiratorial, unpatriotic or endangering course for the
security of the United States and the world than the attempt by the United
States Government to hide the murderers of its President.”
It is now in the interests of national security, not to withhold
the remaining records on the fifty year old assassination of President Kennedy,
but to release them to the public.
The May 29th Movement is hereby launched in order
to support of all of these efforts, and to call attention to and build national
momentum towards a release of all the remaining JFK assassination records by
2013.
May 29th – JFK’s birthday
June 10th – JFK
Monument – American U.
Oct – AARC Conference on JFK Act – 20 Years Later
Nov – Dallas
COPA
Oct 2013 – CWCFS Conference Pittsburgh
Nov 2013 – Occupy Dealey
Plaza in a call to fee the
remaining records
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