Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

As you know, there's been a lot of JFK assassination research news lately, and all of it is exciting in one sense or another.

One of the true revelations is the lesser-known research conducted by Andrew Eiler.

Andrew and I have gotten to know each other after he reached out in the early days of my podcast, JFK, The Enduring Secret. Since then, Andrew and I have become friends, and we've had the

opportunity to work together on JFK-related matters. Last year, Andrew spearheaded a trip to the National

Archives in the days immediately preceding

the annual JFK conference events, conference events that we attended and which are held in Dallas each year.

Andrew asked me to come along on that trip to College Park, Maryland, to visit the National Archives,

where the JFK Records collection is housed.

I'd never been, so it was an absolutely exciting opportunity for me to experience something

firsthand that is so fundamental to JFK research. I'm so glad that I said yes and made the trip to

College Park. What Andrew found, while he, Paul Blow, and myself, I'm so glad that I said yes and made the trip to college park.

What Andrew found while he, Paul Blow, and myself were there at the archives, was startling.

And it would be fuel for additional research that he conducted over the course of the last year.

And all of what ensued is certainly a continuation of work that Andrew has done over a

longer period of research related to records held under the JFK Records Act. In my opinion,

Andrew is the foremost expert on the JFK Records Act. His most recent deep dive into the mechanics

of the record process takes an otherwise prosaic

ministerial topic and turns it into a fascinating set of questions and finds surrounding how

the government has conducted itself in the very mundane world of records management.

I am talking about what the government did before, during, and after

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