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Hot take: The JFK files we got in 2017 were way less than people expected
I remember sitting in my buddy's basement in Dallas back in October 2017, waiting for that big document dump from the National Archives. We thought we'd finally get the smoking gun on who really shot Kennedy or at least some hard proof about CIA involvement. But when they released over 2,800 records, most of them were heavily redacted or just repeated stuff from previous releases. Has anyone else looked through those documents and felt like the key info was still buried somewhere else?
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miles_jackson910d ago
That whole 2017 release felt like a distraction tactic more than anything. Think about it, they dumped 2,800 plus records all at once knowing most people would glaze over trying to sort through them. The really interesting stuff was probably hidden in plain sight among the paperwork that looked boring. I remember flipping through one file that was mostly medical reports and expense logs, but right in the middle was a handwritten note from a CIA station chief mentioning "another lone nut option" in case Oswald didn't stick. Nobody talks about that because it got buried under all the headlines about redacted pages. They knew exactly what they were doing, flooding the zone to hide the few gems among the noise.
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charles_henderson10d ago
Man that "another lone nut option" note sounds huge, did you actually manage to get a photo of that page before they pulled it or was it one of the ones that vanished from the release?
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