Ian Shapira

Washington, D.C., United States

Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post

Investigative reporter, The Washington Post. Louisville, Ky. native. Please DM with tips on anything and everything. At work on novel.

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The latest release of Kennedy assassination records offers intrigue - and lots of breadcrumbs

Mar 21, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

Finally — the long-hidden paragraph. The one on Page 3 of a 1958 FBI memo, a document so secret it is literally stamped “SECRET,” the word tiltedas if the person were rushing to stash the record in some government basement, perhaps in a vault behind a gantlet of levers and dials. On Tuesday, with the release of more John F. Kennedy assassination records from the National Archives, that little paragraph rose from the dust. We already knew the government was opening the mail of American citizens.
What’s in the JFK files? Trump administration releases assassination docs.

Mar 19, 2025 | unionleader.com | Ian Shapira |Clara Ence Morse |Aaron Schaffer |Sarah Cahlan

The perpetual hunt for clues about the 20th century’s most dissected political assassination - the shooting of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas - took a turn Tuesday night with the release of more than 31,000 pages from the National Archives. The dissemination of the records, ordered by President Donald Trump, is the latest in a string of disclosures since the 1990s that have tweaked how the nation and its historians view Kennedy’s killing.
Why world will be shocked by latest ‘unpeeling of history’ in new JFK files

Mar 19, 2025 | independent.ie | Ian Shapira

Why world will be shocked by latest ‘unpeeling of history’ in new JFK filesJohn F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy, and Texas Governor John Connally ride through Dallas moments before Kennedy was assassinated, November 22, 1963. The perpetual hunt for clues about the 20th century’s most dissected political assassination - the shooting of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas - took a new turn with the release of files from the National Archives.
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Mar 18, 2025 | stuff.co.nz | Ian Shapira
What’s in the JFK files? Documents released by Trump administration

Mar 18, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

The perpetual hunt for clues about the 20th century’s most dissected political assassination — the shooting of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas — took a turn Tuesday night with the release of files from the National Archives. The dissemination of the records is the latest in a string of disclosures since the 1990s that have tweaked how the nation and its historians view Kennedy’s killing.
Minister accused of sex abuse landed one high-profile job after another

Jan 15, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

Exclusive Jeff Taylor went from the pulpit to the Red Cross to a college nonprofit. Now, his alleged victims are speaking out, and the FBI is investigating. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Story by Ian ShapiraVideos by Reshma Kirpalani One weekend in early 1991, Jeff Taylor, the youth minister at a centuries-old church catering to Washington's elite, invited a boy in his congregation to a religious retreat in Illinois.
Review | ‘Fire Exit’ considers what it means to be an outsider looking in

Jun 4, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

Charles Lamosway does not make a great first impression. In the opening pages of Morgan Talty’s debut novel, “Fire Exit,” the White narrator confesses to the creepy habit of sitting outside his home and watching a young woman who lives on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. “I was waiting, as I usually did,” Charles says. “Soon, across the river and on the reservation, my girl — a woman by that point — came out of the house and got in her car to go to work.
A Va. nonprofit charges for inmate video calls. Two board members quit over it.

Mar 31, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

When Chuck Meire and Shawn Weneta gained seats on the board of directors at Assisting Families of Inmates, the men were galvanized by the Virginia nonprofit’s mission. But shortly after they joined in 2021, the unlikely duo — Meire, then a Harvard graduate student and Weneta, a recently pardoned felon — came to believe that their organization wasn’t living up to its namesake.
A stolen D.C. Mercedes nearly paralyzed her — and left a year of questions

Dec 29, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

CommentSaveThe family of three in Northeast Washington was about to leave for a Super Bowl party in Dupont Circle. But at the last minute, Rachel Ryan, 34, decided to grab some essentials at a liquor store a few blocks away. A bottle of red. Chips and dip. Orange juice and gummy bears for her then-1-year-old son, Julian. Ryan and her husband, Charlie McKell, 33, were expecting a carefree nightFeb. 12, right up until she walked home. Ryan reached the crosswalk at Florida Avenue and Quincy Place NW.
He was taken hostage in Iran. Now, Thomas Ahern, ex-CIA spy, tells his story.

Dec 16, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

CommentSaveThe 91-year-old former CIA station chief in Tehran, seated in his living room in McLean, Va., glanced at his upturned palms. The bruises from his time as a hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran faded long ago. But memories of his captor pelting his hands with a rubber hose still flickered. For half an hour, his principal interrogator and others insisted that he confess that he was a CIA spy.