Dealey Plaza Echo - Volume 11 Issue 2 »

The July 2007 issue of Dealey Plaza Echo, the outstanding Kennedy assassination research journal published by the Dealey Plaza UK group, is now available online.

This issue, in addition to news and other segments, contains several original essays:

The Mary Ferrell Foundation has an ongoing agreement with Dealey Plaza UK to publish each issue of Dealey Plaza Echo after the paper version has been out for one year.

1,000,000 Pages »

The Mary Ferrell Foundation's collection of scanned documents on the political assassinations of the 1960s has now passed the one million page mark.

The bulk of these are reports, transcripts, and declassified files on the JFK assassination, the majority of them declassified in the 1990s under the JFK Records Act. These include voluminous collections from federal agencies including the CIA and FBI, as well as records of the Warren Commission, Church Committee, House Select Committee on Assassinations, and other investigations.

Nearly 100,000 of these pages relate to the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

Most of these government records were obtained as the result of decades of legal battles, using the Freedom of Information Act. This effort culminated in the passage of the JFK Records Act, under which the Assassination Records Review Board declassified large numbers of records. The Mary Ferrell Foundation salutes the dedication of Jim Lesar, Harold Weisberg, Mark Allen, Gary Shaw, and many others who engaged in the tireless pursuit of truth.

Roughly 85% of these files were provided to the MFF courtesy of the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC), which obtained them as a result of Freedom-of-Information Act lawsuits. Other records come from History Matters, the National Archives, and the private collection of Mary Ferrell and others.

All pages are open for browsing; a membership is required for full use of the website's sophisticated search engine. For more information, see the About the Archive page and a page of Frequently Asked Questions.

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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.

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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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6 Aug 2008 - More FBI HSCA Subject Files: Aproximately 60,000 more pages of FBI HSCA Subject Files have been added over the past six months, including new files on: Anatoli Golitzyn, William Harvey, Rolando Masferrer, Meyer Lansky, Mitchell Werbell, Nofio Pecora, INTERPEN, Richard Lauchli, William Morgan, Michael McLaney, and many others. Approximately 150,000 of a total 400,000 pages remain to be processed in this collection.

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The MFF Archive is the largest searchable electronic archive of information relating to the assassinations of the 1960s and their larger historical context, including over 900,000 pages of declassified government documents.

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Someone Would Have talked features an interview with Larry Hancock, author of the highly regarded ''Someone Would Have Talked.'' In this episode, Larry discusses John Martino, David Morales, John Roselli, David Phillips, and other names familiar to researchers of the assassination.

View all of Larry Hancock's video clips at his "Authors and Experts" page.»

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LBJ's taped phone calls and other records illuminate the process by which the Warren Commission was established. Listen to Johnson invoke the spectre of nuclear war in regards to "what Hoover told me about a little incident in Mexico City."

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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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The Mary Ferrell Foundation Press is proud to republish formerly out-of-print by prominent authors, as well as hard-to-find government reports.

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The Last Investigation
Congressional investigator Fonzi's riveting account of his pursuit of the JFK murder conspiracy into the milieu of Kennedy-hating anti-Castro exiles and CIA officers. Updated for 2008 with a new Epilogue by the author, and a new Preface by Bernard McCormick. See the book's resource page for more information.

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