11/23/2023
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." -- JFK, 1961
60 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by sniper bullets on November 22, 1963.
Six decades later, the CIA and FBI still won't release all their documents on the assassination. Why? That's the great unknown ...
At the Delaware Art Museum in 2004, I asked President Biden (then a Senator) about JFK:
"Senator, do you think President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy?" (from a legal perspective, this question asks if more than one person was involved).
Senator Biden replied, "No."
I then asked: "So do you believe Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK, alone and unaided?" (Oswald was the accused assassin.)
Senator Biden replied, "Yes."
Others may disagree with Biden's view. But if that is what President Biden still believes, it is curious, then, that his administration currently withholds some 3,000 CIA and FBI classified documents related to the JFK assassination, 60 years later.
However, the lack of transparency around President Kennedy's murder has been a continuous secrecy problem for decades. Presidents Trump and Obama also withheld JFK records at the request of the intelligence agencies.
In the end, JFK's hopeful message and peaceful ideology - backed by his strength of resolve and sharp wit - continues to inspire.
"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society." -- JFK, 1961
David Talbot, author of bestselling JFK books Brothers and The Devil's Chessboard, wrote this article about the 60th anniversary, and how sunlight is creeping through the cracks in the wall of JFK secrecy:
https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/the-jfk-assassination-at-60-the-public