Margot Williams

3 weeks ago | jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams

On April 18, documents relating to the June 4, 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles were made available on the National Archives web site. The release was announced in a joint statement from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the murdered senator and candidate for president in 1968.

1 month ago | jfkfacts.substack.com | Jefferson Morley |Margot Williams

Perhaps the single most significant new document to emerge from the new JFK assassination files in the past two years is the material that CIA counterintelligence officers compiled on Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Yes, the newly declassified 1961 memo that Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote to JFK about reorganizing the CIA exposed deep divisions between the White House and the clandestine service that persisted to the end of JFK’s presidency.

1 month ago | jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams

It’s not an exaggeration to state that this week was one of the best in decades for JFK assassination researchers. It was a marathon that must have been as chaotic for the National Archives staffers who spent days and nights declassifying and scanning documents as it has been for people in the JFK research community and the media, first awaiting their release and then speed-reading through them.

2 months ago | jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams

A photograph from Warren Commission exhibits shows the open limousine that carried President and Mrs. Kennedy through downtown Dallas. Gov. John Connally and his wife, Nellie, sat in front of them. (Credit: National Archives, RG 272)As we anticipate the (no-longer forbidden) fruits of President Donald Trump’s Jan. 23 Execut…

Jan 19, 2025 | jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams

The confirmation hearing on a new Trump-era director of the Central Intelligence Agency was among the first in the new 119th Congress. In the run-up to former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe’s confirmation hearing for head of the CIA, Chad Nagle’s Where Does Trump’s CIA Pick Stand on the JFK Files? laid out the nominee’s background and the issues related to his confirmation. Among them are the declassification of files relating to the JFK assassination.