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:
- JFK Assassination File (62-109060)
- Warren Commission Liaison File (62-109090)
- Oswald Headquarters File (105-82555)
- Ruby Headquarters File (44-24016)
- HSCA Administrative Folders
- HSCA Subject Files
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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