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We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading,
Trump said while visiting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington
I’m just telling you that we will learn things,
Sabato said
The collection of records that we reviewed, the vast majority of which were released — some were kept classified in whole or in part — if that’s what we’re talking about, then there is no smoking gun,
he told CNN in a phone interviewIf there had been anything that cut to the core of the assassination, the Review Board would have released it in the mid-’90s. So there is a sense of what the records are,
he went onIt's a lot of stuff, and you'll make your own determination,
Trump told reporters on Monday, saying 8
People expecting big things are almost certain to be disappointed,
said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, who authored a book about the assassinationToday, per his direction, previously redacted JFK Assassination Files are being released to the public with no redactions,
Gabbard wrote
This is about our history and our right to know it,
said Morley
It’s high time that the government got its act together and obeyed the spirit and the letter of the law,
Morley, who is also the vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, said at the time
People have so many doubts,
presidential historian Michael Beschloss said
We’re 59 years after President John Kennedy was killed and there’s just no justification for this,
Judge John Tunheim, who chaired the Assassination Records Review Board from 1994 to 1998, said when Biden released the recordsThe origins of the 80,000 pages of material are unknown,
Jefferson Morley, an expert on the JFK assassination and the CIA, wrote on his JFK Facts blogI believe that there were two shooters, and we should be finding more information as we are able to,
she said
We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files...people have been waiting for decades for this
Trump saidThe search resulted in approximately 2400 newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file."
The FBIWhen I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the truth,
he said at the timeThere is an urgent declassification review of documents related to the JFK, RFK, MLK investigations (and possibly others),
Robinson wrote to the attorneys in the Office of Intelligence, adding
If the commitment of such resources came at the expense of processing FISA applications, that would be to the detriment of U.S. national security interests,
said David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department's Counterintelligence and Export Control SectionEveryone is being asked to review a batch of documents (between 400-500 each),
he said
By keeping files for over 60 years, it's natural that the general public would think, well, they must be keeping files because they have something to hide."
Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist and author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, told Newsweek in January