JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2446
JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS MUST BE DECLASSIFIED BY OCTOBER 26
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) This coming November 22nd marks the 54th anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy, but October 26, 2017 is the date that "all JFK assassination records must be fully declassified."
According to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) which holds these records in College Park, Maryland...
"the vast majority of the (JFK Assassination) Collection (88%) has been open in full and released to the public since the late 1990s."
This was made possible by Public Law No. 102-526, The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992* which was sponsored by John H. Glenn, Jr.** (D-Ohio) and signed by President George H. W. Bush on October 26, 1992.
The act requires "all Government records relating to the assassination of President Kennedy...be available 25 years after the date of enactment."
*The JFK Records Act gives the President of the United States the authority to "continue postponement (in the event of) an identifiable harm to military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or conduct of foreign relations (and that) the...harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure."
**John H. Glenn, Jr. (1921-2016) was born in Cambridge, Ohio & graduated from Muskingum University. JHG served as a US Marine fighter pilot in WWII & Korea. He won 6 Distinguished Service Flying Crosses & 18 air medals.
JHG made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the U.S. and was the first American to orbit the Earth (1962). He served as U.S. Senator 1974-1999. Colonel Glenn received the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
SOURCES
"Biographical Data, John Herschel Glenn, Jr.," NASA, LBJ Space Center, www. jsc.nasa.gov/
"Countdown To 2017", 2017JFK, www.2017jfk.org/
"JFK Assassination Records", National Archives, www.archives.gov/
^Col. Glenn is giving the President a small U.S. flag he carried in his space suit on the historic orbital mission.
JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS MUST BE DECLASSIFIED BY OCTOBER 26
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) This coming November 22nd marks the 54th anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy, but October 26, 2017 is the date that "all JFK assassination records must be fully declassified."
According to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) which holds these records in College Park, Maryland...
"the vast majority of the (JFK Assassination) Collection (88%) has been open in full and released to the public since the late 1990s."
This was made possible by Public Law No. 102-526, The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992* which was sponsored by John H. Glenn, Jr.** (D-Ohio) and signed by President George H. W. Bush on October 26, 1992.
The act requires "all Government records relating to the assassination of President Kennedy...be available 25 years after the date of enactment."
*The JFK Records Act gives the President of the United States the authority to "continue postponement (in the event of) an identifiable harm to military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or conduct of foreign relations (and that) the...harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure."
**John H. Glenn, Jr. (1921-2016) was born in Cambridge, Ohio & graduated from Muskingum University. JHG served as a US Marine fighter pilot in WWII & Korea. He won 6 Distinguished Service Flying Crosses & 18 air medals.
JHG made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the U.S. and was the first American to orbit the Earth (1962). He served as U.S. Senator 1974-1999. Colonel Glenn received the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
SOURCES
"Biographical Data, John Herschel Glenn, Jr.," NASA, LBJ Space Center, www. jsc.nasa.gov/
"Countdown To 2017", 2017JFK, www.2017jfk.org/
"JFK Assassination Records", National Archives, www.archives.gov/
JFK & John Glenn^
The Oval Office
June 27, 1962
Photo by Robert Knudsen
JFK Library Image
^Col. Glenn is giving the President a small U.S. flag he carried in his space suit on the historic orbital mission.
