New Kennedy, RFK and MLK files are unlikely to include any heavy bombs: NPR
President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald at Dallas on November 22, 1963 at Dallas. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby on the eve of Kennedy's funeral.
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President Trump's orders released thousands of assassinations related to the assassination of President John Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther Kim, and can have more understanding of these events. However, it seems that few historians expect any heavy bombs that have changed any changes in narrative.
The national archive records related to assassination in the 1960s were first released in 2017, in the first term of Trump. Many people are public, but some are still closed. Former President Joe Biden expanded some of the exemptions during his term.
but Administrative order Trump released a few days after the inauguration ceremony. He said that he continued to edit and refuse the information “inconsistent with the public interest, and the release of these records should have been released.”
It provided 15 days for intelligence officials to introduce plans for documents related to the assassination of President Kennedy, and 45 days similar to similar plans related to Robert Kennedy and Kim.
Historians said that for decades, the conspiracy theory of assassination, especially the President of Kennedy, the government has obtained public pre-deduction information from the public because of the national security issue.
The file may fill in some of the lost works in Kennedy assassination
Kevin Boyle (Kevin Boyle At Northwest University.
He said that in the “part of the material” owned by the government, I guess it would not be disclosed … the new thing about John Kennedy's assassination. “
President Kennedy's biographical author Fredrik Logevall agrees that the new information will not “significantly overthrow our understanding of what happened to Dallasa's bad days.”
He said: “But even if they did not change our understanding in this deep way, I think there is still useful information in these materials.”
Logeval believes that Sagittarius Lee Harvey Oswal may have something in assassination, such as “what he talked with him and what was the significance of the trip.” He also thinks there may be more understanding “The Central Intelligence Bureau either reports to the Federal Investigation Bureau its knowledge of Oswald and their travels or their knowledge Logeval said that there was no record before “assassination.” This is very useful information, whether it may reveal information about the murder itself.
Boyle believes that there are other interests that are interested in being directly related to Kennedy's assassination, such as lack of puzzles in Cuba's secret activities. “It has revealed many information about the scope of the United States secret operation before John Kennedy was assassinated. I think we can get interesting new revelations from it.”
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The previous document has been released The king of the Federal Investigation Bureau has received extensive surveillance And use eavesdropping to discover information that aims to damage civil rights leaders, especially for extramarital affairs.
Kathryn McGarr, a historical professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said she thought she had no more things to learn. She said: “How many monitoring and seeing (MLK) have we have a lot of understanding of the government … and how many enemies he have within the government.” “I think the narrative will not change significantly, although of course, we can be here and with Get more details there.
King of Kings As a result of the entire American violenceEspecially in cities including Washington, DC and Chicago. Dozens of people were killed. Boyer said he was interested in the “reaction” of racial dynamics around gold and his response to his killing.
In April 1968, during the riots in Washington, DC, firefighters encountered a fire on the H street during the riots in Washington, DC.
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John Stoner at the University of Pittsburgh's American History believes that the federal government “strives to isolate the king and investigate the potential disruptive connection of some of his consultants”, which increases the fuel to deceive the fire. The king's own family said that James Earl Ray, who fired in Memphis, Tennesi, was convicted on April 4, 1968.
Starner said he hoped that the new documents could “clarify the government's murderousness.”
Robert Kennedy (Robert Kennedy Hypnosis by a woman standing near the scene for murderEssence However, of the three assassinations, he attracted the least conspiracy theory, which may be because “the assassination of Kennedy and MLK occupied a lot of air,” Starner said.
The New York Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy spoke to the campaign workers at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. After making a brief speech, Kennedy was killed deadly in the adjacent room.
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Sirhan stayed in San Diego prison. After being arrested, he said that the killing of Robert Kennedy was “my country”. On June 5, 1968, the assassination occurred on the first anniversary of the Arabian-Israel War in 1967, and was also known as the Six-Day War. Sirhan feels Kennedy's betrayal of Israel's supportHe said in an interview in 1989.
Starner said he was interested in understanding whether the government may have a soft political connection if Sirhan Sirhan may have a soft political connection. “
Why did it take for such a long time to publish the information?
Although national security is the reason why the assassination documents were released from the National Archives, Madison, a University of Wisconsin Madison, said that due to bureaucratic reasons, amendments are likely to be the possibility of reorganization.
She said that if her own archives work is any guide, she is likely not to publish information because of embarrassment. “When some documents can be released until someone died, this is usually just a nose speech.”
Logvar said that although Trump quickly issued an administrative order, he still needs to review these documents and may take a while to see the light of the public review. He said: “I can imagine one … this is a delay, and some restorations will be performed even in these final versions.”
Boil in the northwest said that if the common agreement is issued, the national archives will make the materials online once it is formally approved.
He said that in general, this is not the most striking reading. “You know, this is the material of bureaucracy. It is human files and personnel cases. … This is not very exciting. “
He said that even if the file does not contain any dramatic things, they will still be interested in people like him. “As a historian, we never think that this story has been told. There will always be the possibility of new information.”