Arkansas Prof Will Get Inside Look at JFK Documents
By: Jonathan Athens, KARK 4 News
Updated: September 14, 2012
An Arkansas professor who spent two years working on a special project collecting all available documentation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is about to get his wish.
Fifteens years has passed since David Montague finished up with work with the U.S. Assassination Review Board. The board closed up in 1997 after completing its mission.
And now the National Archives are going to make public more documentation regarding the JFK assassination investigation, Montague said.
Kennedy was shot dead Nov. 22, 1963 while traveling through a plaza in Dallas, Texas. The killer was a former U.S. Marine, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was subsequently shot dead by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner with known mob connections.
Conspiracy theories continue to swirl around the murder of the President in broad daylight but the official government explanation has remained the same---that Oswald was the gunman and that he acted alone.
Still, there are too many inconsistencies, coincidences and information gaps to convince skeptics and conspiracy theorists to believe the official explanation.
Montague plans on writing a book centered on how the board did its investigation into collecting all the documents.
He plans to have it finished next year, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death.
Fifteens years has passed since David Montague finished up with work with the U.S. Assassination Review Board. The board closed up in 1997 after completing its mission.
And now the National Archives are going to make public more documentation regarding the JFK assassination investigation, Montague said.
Kennedy was shot dead Nov. 22, 1963 while traveling through a plaza in Dallas, Texas. The killer was a former U.S. Marine, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was subsequently shot dead by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner with known mob connections.
Conspiracy theories continue to swirl around the murder of the President in broad daylight but the official government explanation has remained the same---that Oswald was the gunman and that he acted alone.
Still, there are too many inconsistencies, coincidences and information gaps to convince skeptics and conspiracy theorists to believe the official explanation.
Montague plans on writing a book centered on how the board did its investigation into collecting all the documents.
He plans to have it finished next year, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death.
Comments
Anti-climactic at best. All documents related to this event are a matter of US History and should have been released long ago. The JFK Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into Law by President George H. W. Bush in 1992, mandated that all JFK assassination documents be released to the public unless it was proved that any were a threat to National Security. Yet, there are hundreds of thousands still withheld. Since then, even the Secret Service has alternately claimed to have destroyed pertinent original documents only to later claim that copies of some of those documents were preserved. Tossing the American people a bone just won't due. Follow the law. Release ALL of the documents if there is nothing to hide.
Greg B.
September 15, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Anti-climactic at best. All documents related to this event are a matter of US History and should have been released long ago. The JFK Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into Law by President George H. W. Bush in 1992, mandated that all JFK assassination documents be released to the public unless it was proved that any were a threat to National Security. Yet, there are hundreds of thousands still withheld. Since then, even the Secret Service has alternately claimed to have destroyed pertinent original documents only to later claim that copies of some of those documents were preserved. Tossing the American people a bone just won't due. Folloow the law. Release ALL of the documents if there is nothing to hide.
Greg B.
September 15, 2012 at 2:16 pm
