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Jefferson Morley & Trump’s Order to Release the JFK Assassination Files


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Donald Trump's plan to release the files tied to the assassination of John F. Kennedy has already unearthed nearly 2,400 new documents which might shed light on the mystery of whether there was indeed a lone shooter, potentially including information on the CIA operative who knew about Lee Harvey Oswald over a month before JFK met his end in Dallas.

In late January, Trump signed an executive order authorizing the release of the remaining classified records about the 1963 shooting in one of his first acts after returning to the White House.  Hy and Christopher are joined on the program by Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post Reporter & Editor who is an expert on the assassination as well as vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, the nation's largest source of online records of Kennedy's killing.   He writes on these subjects at jfkfacts.substack.com.

In 2011, Morley sued the U.S. government for more records.  As he explained, "The FBI is finally saying, 'Let's respond to the president's order,' instead of keeping the secrecy going. As the FBI has gone about reviewing about 14,000 pages of documents in response to the order, with a new set of records brought to the White House’s attention on Friday. 
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