JFK Facts

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

Jeff Morley’s obituary for the JFK researcher and musicologist Dan Storper who passed away on May 22 at age 74 appeared earlier today. Two days before Dan’s passing, the second hearing of the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, was held on Capitol Hill. There was revealing, historic, and at times, emotional testimony from five men who are living witnesses to the events of the assassination of President John F.

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

Authoritative journalism that seeks to clarify the causes of JFK's assassination and to abolish the official secrecy that still surrounds itOver 20,000 subscribersBy subscribing, I agree to Substack’s Terms of Use and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy“This is one of the most thorough and level-headed analyses of the JFK assassination from a fact-based journalistic POV.

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

Last week we talked about “Left, Right, and JFK” with journalist Michael Shellenberger. This week I want to continue that discussion by focusing on the meaning of the JFK story in this political moment: Why does the JFK story matter in April 2025? And how does it matter? Does full JFK disclosure important because it advances President Trump’s ambition to tame the so-called “deep state?” Does Trump’s advocacy of full JFK disclosure serve his authoritarian agenda?

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

While the release of long secret files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on March 18 was welcomed by JFK researchers, the rollout was flawed in two ways. First, the Trump administration released hundreds of documents that contained social security numbers of living persons. Second, the documents published on the National Archives’ JFK page are not enabled for optical character recognition (OCR), which means the new records were not readily searchable.

1 month 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.