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My uncle mailed me a JFK clipping from 1993 and the margin notes got me thinking
My uncle in Tulsa has been mailing me old newspaper clippings since I was a kid, and last month he sent one from the 30th anniversary of the JFK thing in 1993. He wrote in the margin "ask yourself who benefits" in blue pen, which is his thing. I used to roll my eyes at that stuff because back then I figured the official story was the official story. But now with everything online and everyone able to dig, it feels like people argue the exact same points they did in 1993, just faster. My uncle never cared as much about the answer as he did about asking why the records stay sealed. It makes me wonder if the debate is even about JFK anymore, or just about who gets to decide what we're allowed to know. So what got you into this stuff, was it a person too or did you just fall into it on your own?
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jason_stone122d ago
Who benefits" is a fun pen trick but it cuts both ways. Take it seriously and you have to ask who benefits from the endless sealed file stuff too, because a mystery that never ends sells books, podcasts, and keeps people mad at the government forever. The 1992 law said all the records get released by 2017 unless the president blocks it, and both Trump and Biden did block parts of it, so the real answer is probably boring: agencies covering up their own sloppy work from 60 years ago, not some grand plan. Your uncle was right to ask the question, but I'd push back on the idea that the fighting is about "who decides what we know." Half the guys arguing online haven't read a single page of the actual files.
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