FBI Records Project Complete »

With the last pages of the FBI HSCA Subject Files collection now online, the Mary Ferrell Foundation's project to digitize major collections of FBI records provided by the Assassination Records and Research Center (AARC) is complete. Released under the JFK Records Act and in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and lawsuits, these FBI files comprise more than 450,000 pages of formerly-secret records.

More FBI documents from the AARC will continue to be added, including files on Cuban exile groups and more MURKIN documents, but the major FBI collections from the AARC are now online. These include:

Additional FBI files from the AARC available here include files on the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Los Angeles Field Office (LAFO) files on the Robert Kennedy Assassination, and logs and calendars of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Personal note from Rex Bradford:

I was introduced in 2000 to Jim Lesar, President of the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC), when I presented to him a proposal to digitize the AARC's records. I had recently launched the History Matters website after falling down the same rabbit hole as many before me - in my case after reading the amazing Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) medical testimony and exhibits and waiting in vain for the New York Times to pick up the incredible stories of cover-up told therein. (continued...)

Legacy of Secrecy »

Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann's Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination is the follow-up to their earlier work, Ultimate Sacrifice, which posited a JFK-sponsored Cuban coup plan which was infiltrated by the Mafia and used to kill President Kennedy, invoking a national security cover-up.

Legacy of Secrecy tells the story of the assassination aftermath, supplying their explanation for the lengthy ensuing cover-ups, with particular focus on the false Roselli-Morgan story of a "Castro blowback." The book also develops the theory that Carlos Marcello brokered the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. on behalf of Joseph Milteer, and presents Marcello's prison confession to the JFK assassination.

While significant aspects of the story are contained in interviews conducted by the authors, some with unnamed sources, the book also cites an abundance of declassified documents, most of them available on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website. As a service to readers interested in evaluating the book and exploring some of the more important materials cited in it, we have created a Legacy of Secrecy document walkthrough. This resource page features discussion and links to more than two dozen documents, along with links to other relevant materials.

Also available are online previews of Chapter One and the Epilogue to Legacy of Secrecy.

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1963 JFK Assassination »JFK Assassination

The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy is one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. It spawned several government investigations and a large-scale parallel effort by citizens to succeed where they believed their government had failed.

1968 MLK Assassination » Martin Luther King Assassination

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the opening acts which plunged 1968 into a year of turmoil. Was James Earl Ray part of a conspiracy to kill King?

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Robert Kennedy was assailed by Sirhan Sirhan shortly after declaring victory in the Democratic California primary. But this open-and-shut case has sightings of fleeing accomplices and too many bullets for one gun.

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LBJ Suspected Nixon of Treason
Dec 8, 2008: "This is treason," President Johnson told Senator Dirksen in one of the recently released LBJ phone calls, in reference to 1968 Republican candidate Richard Nixon's sabotaging of Vietnam peace talks. "I know," Dirksen replied." See an article in the Austin American-Statesman. The calls do not illuminate how LBJ learned of...

LBJ Library Releases Last Batch of Presidential Phone Calls
Dec 5, 2008: The LBJ Library has released the last set of Presidential phone calls, covering the period from May 1968 to Jan 1969 - see this Dallas Morning News article, this press release from the Library, and a page of highlights. Since it is known that LBJ used a taping system during his Vice-Presidency (the calls made in the...

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5 Dec 2008 - Hoover Logs and Calendars: The AARC's set of Hoover logs and calendars are now fully online. These include daily phone/appt logs from 1941 to 1972, appointment calendars from 1957 to 1972, and memos of phone calls from 1960 to 1971 (this last set appears to be mostly "crank" calls).

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Gaeton Fonzi's masterful retelling of his work reinvestigating the Kennedy assassination for two Congressional committees is required reading for students of the assassination and the subsequent failure of the government to solve the crime. The Last Investigation is a compelling post mortem on the House Select Committee on Assassinations, as well as a riveting account of Fonzi's pursuit of leads indicating involvement by officers of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Plans for a complete withdrawal from Vietnam were drawn up in the spring of 1963. What happened to that plan?
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Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection, by Peter Dale Scott
This slim but incisive volume reflects on the Schweiker-Hart Report and other post-Watergate revelations, including the attempts to falsely implicate Fidel Castro in the JFK assassination.

Note: this is the original 1977 Westworks book, not a new Mary Ferrell Foundation publication, and quantities are limited.

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