24-07-2012, 02:41 AM
We now have over 600 signatures on the petition, three times as many as any previous petition. We are shooting for 2,000. Please sign and pass around these links. Thanks, BK [URL="http://www.change.org/petitions/office-of-information-policy-and-regulatory-affairs-release-the-secret-jfk-assassination-records"]
http://www.change.org/petitions/office-o...on-records[/URL]
http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2012/...e-jfk.htmlhttp://www.facebook.com/groups/113396402136384/
http://aarclibrary.org/
http://politicalassassinations.com/
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Rex Bradford at Mary Ferrell Archives wrote:
Unless the National Archives reverses itself, the 50thanniversary of JFK's death will come and go without the remaining identified JFKassassination files being released to the public.
In 2010, Assistant Archivist Michael Kurtz stated that theNational Archives and Records Administration (NARA)would include remaining JFK records in the National Declassification Center'sproject to review and release backlogged documents by 2013. But in a recentletter to Assassination Archives and Research Center President Jim Lesar, NARA'sGeneral Counsel Gary Stern said that Kurtz "misspoke." Ironically,the letter cited NARA'sneed to "balance historical impact [and] public interest" indetermining which records to focus its review efforts on. It would be hard toargue that JFK assassination records are not high on either metric.
The letter notes that among the records are 1171 CIAdocuments still withheld in full. While these and some other records are slatedfor full declassification in 2017, there is no guarantee that such willactually occur. The upcoming 50th anniversary is the best occasion to applypressure to ensure these records become public.
If you would like to weigh in on this issue, one option isto sign an online petition put together by researcher Bill Kelly, author of theexcellent JFK Countercoup blog. http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2012/...e-jfk.html
View and sign the petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/office-o...on-records
http://www.change.org/petitions/office-o...on-records[/URL]
http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2012/...e-jfk.htmlhttp://www.facebook.com/groups/113396402136384/
http://aarclibrary.org/
http://politicalassassinations.com/
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Rex Bradford at Mary Ferrell Archives wrote:
Unless the National Archives reverses itself, the 50thanniversary of JFK's death will come and go without the remaining identified JFKassassination files being released to the public.
In 2010, Assistant Archivist Michael Kurtz stated that theNational Archives and Records Administration (NARA)would include remaining JFK records in the National Declassification Center'sproject to review and release backlogged documents by 2013. But in a recentletter to Assassination Archives and Research Center President Jim Lesar, NARA'sGeneral Counsel Gary Stern said that Kurtz "misspoke." Ironically,the letter cited NARA'sneed to "balance historical impact [and] public interest" indetermining which records to focus its review efforts on. It would be hard toargue that JFK assassination records are not high on either metric.
The letter notes that among the records are 1171 CIAdocuments still withheld in full. While these and some other records are slatedfor full declassification in 2017, there is no guarantee that such willactually occur. The upcoming 50th anniversary is the best occasion to applypressure to ensure these records become public.
If you would like to weigh in on this issue, one option isto sign an online petition put together by researcher Bill Kelly, author of theexcellent JFK Countercoup blog. http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2012/...e-jfk.html
View and sign the petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/office-o...on-records