I am very disappointed in Trump’s decision to block the release of all JFK assassination plot files of the National Archives record files again.
They were supposed to be released within 25 years of the closing of the files.
There is a law mandating a timely release of the JFK assassination plot file release. The CIA and FBI were quick to appeal the release of all the files.
Any writer or investigator should quickly pick up that trail. So, they or someone closely associated with them, must have their hands in the cookie jar and were about to get caught.
The people that it hurts are people that research information for historical records such as school studies, magazine periodicals, legal situations, book authors and many others that follow the life and depth of one of the most beloved presidents in the history of the United States. We, the public, still don’t really know why.
I am personally writing a book that deals with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I need those files released for my final “research on the assassination plot.” I have waited for more than five years, counting on the public release on a timely basis.
After waiting that long, now President Donald Trump has put a six-month block to study their release and then extend the release, maybe another five years to give the culprits time to die for figure a way to cover their screw ups or their crimes (as it might be?).
Trump said, “It’s for the potential irreversible possible harm to national security.” What possible harm to our national security can a 25-year-old hidden secret bring about unless it catches someone guilty of a crime or some kind and have gotten away with it for over two decades.
The person must have been very powerful to get enough people to go along and help keep it covered that long.
They still hold a powerful grip on keeping it covered up. Nothing except fear of reprisal can make someone hold onto this so long. They are afraid of violent retaliation and payback if they let those files get into the public’s hands.
If they are guilty, it is time we catch them and the word of the law take control and put them where they belong.
If they are not, then forgive them and set them free. Then, raise your hands and shout, “hooray, victory and jubilation for the bad guy again.”
However, according to this VMS publication of Oct. 27, 2017, “The experts say the publication of the last collection of valuables of great important evidence in the JFK assassination file, could help ally suspicion of a conspiracy as long as the government is holding documents like these. It is going to fuel suspicion that there is a “smoking gun” out there.
If there is a smoking gun out there, without this final batch of files released, they can hold off any real threat-related groups assembling the evidence and some day resolving the great JFK plot mystery.
Then, we could be free from the “atmosphere of suspicion” from the JFK assassination plot, once and for all.
Curtis Hatcher Harlingen
