The 1963 assassination of President Kennedy
Almost from the beginning, it was thought by many that the assassination of the popular young president was the result of a conspiracy, rather than an act by one individual, despite findings to the contrary by the Warren Commission (1964), which was set up to investigate the assassination and overseen by Kennedy ‘s successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson. The incident remained the subject of widespread speculation.
The Assassination Records Collection Act requires the National Archives to release all related documents within 25 years. As the deadline approached on 26 October 2017 for the release of the remaining unreleased documents, US President Donald Trump exuberantly anticipated the disclosure. At the eleventh hour, however, the White House was inundated with requests from the CIA and FBI to redact several hundred documents in the interests of national security.
All possible steps to disclose previously secret information were taken in the belief that lifting the veil of government secrecy on the assassination would help to make it public. However, decades after the event and the investigations, speculation and conspiracy theories persist.
As conspiracy theorists and investigators know, the Vatican had great influence on Kennedy’s assassination from behind the scenes, as renowned Jesuit researchers have learned. Author Loftus, in his 1994 book: The Secret War on the Jews; claims that Kennedy wanted to arm Israel.
