{"id":25595,"date":"2017-10-22T06:24:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25595"},"modified":"2017-10-22T06:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T06:26:53","slug":"by-all-means-release-those-jfk-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25595","title":{"rendered":"By all means, release those JFK files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtjI6D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25376\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtjI6D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtjI6D-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtjI6D.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump plans &#8212; at this moment &#8212; to allow the release of files relating to one of the 20th century&#8217;s most hideous crimes: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the president does it. He left himself an out, though, suggesting he might not do so if intelligence agencies determine that it&#8217;s too sensitive to national security to release them at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I want the files released? I hope &#8212; but don&#8217;t necessarily <em>expect<\/em> &#8212; the files to put to rest the ridiculous conspiracy theories that have kicked around since that terrible day in November 1963.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I do not believe there was a second gunman; nor do I believe that anyone conspired with Oswald to kill the nation&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/356517-trump-says-hell-allow-kennedy-assassination-files-to-be-released\">Release those files<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will the release of those files kill forever those theories? Oh, probably not. We might be listening to cockamamie theories\/baloney for as long as we exist as a nation. As Larry Sabato, political scientist at the University of Virginia, noted today, we&#8217;re still debating the assassination of <em>President Abraham Lincoln<\/em>, who was killed at Ford Theater in <em>April 1865.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 54 years since Oswald killed the president and wounded Texas Gov. John Connally. Thousands of pages of valuable information has been kept under lock and key. They&#8217;re supposed to be opened to the public next week.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the president follows through, with the expectation that we can push this terrible event a little farther toward the rear of the shelf.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump plans &#8212; at this moment &#8212; to allow the release of files relating to one of the 20th century&#8217;s most hideous crimes: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I hope the president does it. He left himself an out, though, suggesting he might not do so if intelligence agencies determine that it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">By all means, release those JFK files<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2460,2461,5983],"class_list":["post-25595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-jfk","tag-jfk-assassination","tag-john-connally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25598,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25595\/revisions\/25598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}