With the approach of November 22, 2013, the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's public execution, I am writing to encourage that you order immediate release to the public "in full" (without redaction) ALL the 1100+ files/records remaining secret, under government control and directly - or even tangentially - related to that event. I also invite you to recognize, encourage and even join in a silent, ongoing vigil awaiting release of those records, begining on 11/22/13 at 12:30 p.m., in the public plaza adjoining the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a Memorial built in Washington, D.C. to honor President Kennedy. (http://www.scribd.com/doc/177829203/11-22-13-A-Silent-Vigil-Begins-for-JFK-Records-Release-Washington-D-C ).
President Kennedy is not honored as records of his murder remain secret while thousands daily gather to entertain and be entertained in the Kennedy Center, a structure not fully "celebrating the life of John Kennedy" while these contradicting circumstances persist, even highlighting maturation of a trend in American culture away from vigilant awareness of civic rights and responsibilities, a trend pointedly implicit in the title of Neil Postman"s 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death . The public plaza at the Kennedy Center thus uniquely provides a best focal point for newly engaged citizens to exercise their nearly forgotten Constitutional right to peacefully assemble and petition for this redress of grievances: that ALL records related to President Kennedy's assassination be promptly released, a step crucial to reclaiming public confidence in, even control of, the very institutions and processes valued by John Kennedy as functioning in time to build America, not into a tensely politicized democracy - subject to tyranny by majority/mob rule - but a Constitutional Republic, calmly persistent in respecting and protecting both majority and minority interests.
The public plaza adjoining the Kennedy Center clearly and historically has been a public space, appropriate and available for a Constitutional assembly, or vigil. In fact, until recent years, the entire Kennedy Center and grounds were within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Park Police, who to this day recognize the right of Americans to assemble and conduct "vigils" on public spaces within their jurisdiction as not requiring application for or approval of any permit. More recently, and for that very reason, management of the Kennedy Center and adjoining grounds were apparently transitioned away from jurisdiction of the U.S. Park Police, with the intended result of prohibiting public assemblies or "vigils" at this necessary focal point as the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination became imminent. These circumstances evidence not just a theory, but an actual "Conspiracy" (18USC371) to accomplish "Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law" (18USC242), to discourage, even prevent exercise of the Constitutionally defined and protected right to peacefully assemble and petition for a redress of grievances, specifically at this most important time and location. This is a serious matter. If on November 22, 2013 or thereafter, any public, private or corporate entity employs legal tactics or law enforcement/ security functions to interfere with this vigil, this peaceful assembly at this location, those actions must be recognized as in furtherance and ultimate accomplishment of the stated Conspiracy, requiring diligent investigation and prosecution by the U.S. Justice Department to enforce criminal and civil penalties upon the offending parties. Very hopefully, it won't come to that.
The irony and absurdity of further delaying release of records related to his assassination are well highlighted in a perspective on "secrecy" and the media expressed by President John Kennedy himself, speaking to journalists in 1961:
"The very word "secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know....
"....This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for, as a wise man once said: "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it' .....
"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed - and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law-maker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment - the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution - not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants' - but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion...."
Abundant evidence has entered the public domain since November 22, 1963 to establish that Lee Harvey Oswald has been falsely framed in history as a "lone gunman" responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy. Rather, the evidence points towards Oswald having been innocent, maneuvered into the role of "patsy," then himself murdered within days. Yet as the 50th Anniversary approaches, the "Oswald Did It Alone" mantra has been ever more regularly and definitively imposed as historical fact upon the American people, even the world, by an increasingly bland, insipid and controlled mainstream media, compliant in perpetuating lies of commission and omission well documented in the Warren Commission Report. Instead, it is now time for the media to wake up and demonstrate a revived and courageous passion for truth.
Why do those records still secret need to be released? To persecute those still living who may have acted, or failed to act in preventing, either the assassination or subsequent cover-up? No. The objective of prompt release of the records is to begin nothing less than a watershed transition towards greater and functional transparency in government. The country, even the world, yearns for America to take this step.
What records remain secret? Among the most important withheld records are believed those of former and long deceased employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As excerpted below from the website www.jfkfacts.org , Journalist Jefferson Morley suggests the seven most important CIA files yet to be released are:
1. Files on the interrogation of Yuri Nosenko
Yuri Nosenko was an officer in the Soviet KGB who defected to the United States in April 1964, shortly after the assassination of JFK. Nosenko said that he had seen the files that the KGB compiled on accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in his two and a half year residence in the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1962. The Soviet intelligence service had not recruited or used him as an agent, Nosenko said.
Deputy CIA Director Richard Helms told Chief Justice Earl Warren that he could not vouch for the accuracy of Nosenko's claims exculpating the KGB. This left open the possibility that Nosenko was a false defector sent by the Soviet Union to obscure its role in JFK's assassination.
According to the CIA' s website , Helm said, "It did strike me at the time that it would be a great mistake for the Warren Commission to shape its findings on the basis of a statement made by a man whose bona fides we could not establish."
Yet what the CIA learned from its interrogation of Nosenko remains secret 50 years later.
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