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JFK The Enduring Secret

Episode 284 An Update On The Mary Ferrell Litigation Against NARA

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Coup D'etat, Documentary, Government, Ruby, History, Jfk, Murder, Kennedy, Mafia, President, Oswald, Dallas, Fbi, Society & Culture, Assassination, Cia, Johnson

4.6602 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

A status update on the JFK Records Act litigation between the Mary Ferrell Foundation and NARA. Just a few days ago on August 6th, the litigants filed a joint status report in the case involving the declassification of records related to historical assassinations. The defendant's request for summary judgement was stayed as a result of President Trumps order regarding the release of records and this new status report updates the public on the latest status of the...

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0:00.0

Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

0:06.0

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

0:09.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast.

0:24.8

Today's episode is episode 284.

0:27.9

And yes, it's actually the second episode today.

0:31.7

Very rarely do I put out two episodes in a single day, but today I'm going to do it.

0:36.5

Now, you know I don't try to keep up

0:38.8

with all the goings on in the JFK Records world. There's a lot happening right now, and there's

0:44.9

so many places to go and get most of the time better information than what I might be able to

0:50.1

provide you secondhand, so I don't even make an attempt at doing that. But in the last day or so,

0:56.6

something interesting has happened. I think it's important enough to report on here at JFK,

1:01.7

the Enduring Secret. As you know, there has been ongoing litigation between the Mary Farrell Foundation

1:07.3

and NARA. Just a couple of days ago, they issued a joint status report. I filed it in the U.S. Aero Foundation and NARA. Just a couple of days ago, they issued a joint status report.

1:14.0

I filed it in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

1:18.3

On January 23rd, President Trump issued an executive order that was entitled Declassification of Records

1:26.1

concerning the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy,

1:29.8

Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. In light of this executive order,

1:35.4

the court stayed all proceedings in the case and vacated the briefing schedule for NARA's motion

1:42.7

for partial summary judgment. Since the executive order,

1:46.9

NARA has released previously withheld records that are part of the President John F. Kennedy

1:51.4

assassination records collection, as well as records transferred by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

1:58.5

The plaintiffs in this case, Mary Farrell, request that the court consider a settlement

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