Judge rebukes handling of JFK records

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The federal judge who oversaw the collection of government documents on John F. Kennedy's assassination called it "Disappointing" that President Donald Trump is holding back so many of the records while the CIA, FBI and other agencies review them.

"I just don't think there is anything in these records that require keeping them secret now," John Tunheim, who from 1992 to 1998 chaired a congressionally established board that reviewed all the files on the assassination, told POLITICO in a telephone interview Friday.

"The National Archives will therefore release more records, with redactions only in the rarest of circumstances, by the deadline of April 26, 2018.".

All those documents were collected by Tunheim's Assassination Records Review Board, which Congress created in 1992 amid the public interest generated by the Oliver Stone film JFK. Thursday's released contained only 52 new documents that had previously been completely withheld - less than 2 percent of the total, said Rex Bradford, president of the nonprofit Mary Ferrell Foundation, which has digitized hundreds of thousands of the records related to Kennedy's murder.

The 1992 law establishing the Assassination Records Review Board set a deadline of Oct. 26, 2017, to automatically release all remaining records, unless the president ordered them kept secret to protect national security based on the recommendations of government agencies.

"The original JFK act law specified immediate release of JFK records and only in the most rarest of occasions should there be a postponement or redactions," he added.

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