Reuters wrote:Thousands of documents, photos and even recorded phone conversations of President John F. Kennedy are going online and available to a whole new generation of high-tech armchair historians.
The online digital archive of the 35th U.S. president was being unveiled on Thursday by the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.
Now, instead of having to travel to Boston, historians and the general public alike will have online access to 200,000 document pages, 1,200 individual telephone conversations, speeches and meetings and 1,500 photos.
Should be some interesting material even for those of us not looking into the martian/mafia connections. Archive search here.
Opening day, 1961:
NASA:
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "“I like taking the guns early...to go to court would have taken a long time. So you could do exactly what you’re saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second.” -President Donald Trump. "...To guard, protect, and maintain his liberty, the freedman should have the ballot; that the liberties of the American people were dependent upon the Ballot-box, the Jury-box, and the Cartridge-box, that without these no class of people could live and flourish in this country." - Frederick Douglass MYT
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I guess Ray Butts has ate his last pancake. http://steamcommunity.com/id/daehawk
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When in doubt, skewer it out...I don't know.
"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on." -Terry Pratchett, The Truth "The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to those who think they've found it." -Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 instructed Washington to declassify everything by October 26, 2017, but it also allowed the president to withhold documents on national security grounds. At the last minute, Trump bowed to pressure from the intelligence community and kept more than 368,000 pages under lock and key. But he also gave the agencies until today to review those files, at which point he'd decide whether to release them.
There are a lot of serious historians and journalists—and, yes, a lot of kooks too—who'd like to get their hands on those documents. But they're going to have to keep waiting. This morning Trump announced that "continued withholdings are necessary to protect against identifiable harm to national security, law enforcement, or foreign affairs." Many files are being released today, but many redactions remain. [Update: McClatchy has the totals: 3,461 documents are being released in full; 15,584 are being released with (often substantial) redactions; 520 are being kept completely private.]
Trump's order also set up another deadline. If the agencies want to keep any of this material classified past October 26, 2021, they'll need to make their case for concealment six months before then. So in another three years we'll get to do this will-they-won't-they routine yet again.
"The world is suffering more today from the good people who want to mind other men's business than it is from the bad people who are willing to let everybody look after their own individual affairs." - Clarence Darrow
The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 instructed Washington to declassify everything by October 26, 2017, but it also allowed the president to withhold documents on national security grounds. At the last minute, Trump bowed to pressure from the intelligence community and kept more than 368,000 pages under lock and key. But he also gave the agencies until today to review those files, at which point he'd decide whether to release them.
There are a lot of serious historians and journalists—and, yes, a lot of kooks too—who'd like to get their hands on those documents. But they're going to have to keep waiting. This morning Trump announced that "continued withholdings are necessary to protect against identifiable harm to national security, law enforcement, or foreign affairs." Many files are being released today, but many redactions remain. [Update: McClatchy has the totals: 3,461 documents are being released in full; 15,584 are being released with (often substantial) redactions; 520 are being kept completely private.]
Trump's order also set up another deadline. If the agencies want to keep any of this material classified past October 26, 2021, they'll need to make their case for concealment six months before then. So in another three years we'll get to do this will-they-won't-they routine yet again.
Qanon folk are going to be so sad. This was supposed to be their MOAB damnit!
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What I'd like to know:
1. Did someone review each of those 300,000+ pages to make sure there was something too secret to release, or did they simply do a computer search for keywords on those documents and if the word was on the page then that page was deemed too secret to release?
2. Has the release of secret documents about events that happened decades ago EVER caused harm to US intelligence or US agents or US interests? If so, when and what kind of harm?
gameoverman wrote: Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:45 pm
What I'd like to know:
1. Did someone review each of those 300,000+ pages to make sure there was something too secret to release, or did they simply do a computer search for keywords on those documents and if the word was on the page then that page was deemed too secret to release?
2. Has the release of secret documents about events that happened decades ago EVER caused harm to US intelligence or US agents or US interests? If so, when and what kind of harm?
Answers:
1. <REDACTED>
2. In <REDACTED> their was an incident with <REDACTED>, so the answer really is <REDACTED>
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Much like bravery is acting in spite of fear, being a functioning adult is acting responsibly in the face of temptation. -Isg
gameoverman wrote: Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:45 pm
What I'd like to know:
1. Did someone review each of those 300,000+ pages to make sure there was something too secret to release, or did they simply do a computer search for keywords on those documents and if the word was on the page then that page was deemed too secret to release?
2. Has the release of secret documents about events that happened decades ago EVER caused harm to US intelligence or US agents or US interests? If so, when and what kind of harm?
Experts are combing over the papers, not all of which have appeared online. They say the job will take time, and that they do not expect many ground-breaking revelations.
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Of the 1,123 documents included in Tuesday's release from the National Archives and Records Administration, it was not immediately clear how much material was new. Many documents have previously been released in partially redacted form.
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But some of the hundreds of files unsealed on Tuesday night did appear to have passages blacked out. Others were hard to read, because they were faded or were poorly scanned photocopies, or appeared to bear little relevance to the JFK case, specialists said.
Non-scholars would probably be "baffled", commented David Barrett of Villanova University in Pennsylvania, as he reviewed the released material on Tuesday.
gameoverman wrote: Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:45 pm
What I'd like to know:
1. Did someone review each of those 300,000+ pages to make sure there was something too secret to release, or did they simply do a computer search for keywords on those documents and if the word was on the page then that page was deemed too secret to release?
2. Has the release of secret documents about events that happened decades ago EVER caused harm to US intelligence or US agents or US interests? If so, when and what kind of harm?
If information report by an asset from a foreign country ,then it could be a problem. If you found out that a certain person was giving info to other countries, you would put every person that spy helped in any way under a microscope. You would check family and who they worked with. Who did they train or promote. Spies don’t just die , they breed.
If I make a grammar or spelling mistake, PM me. I will correct it. It’s better than you being an asshole!
No one knows the truth, only hypothesis, assumptions, conjectures, speculations, presumptions, guesses and theories.
We are not Gods, but nature. No more than one of many dominate species that will inhabit this planet for a short period of time, on its ever so long journey through the universe.
