QUICK HIT: What To Know About The Newly Released JFK Files: "Too Much Secrecy Makes People Suspicious"
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Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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It's been about a week since the release of new, unredacted documents from the JFK assasination investigation. So what have we actually learned?
Author Fred Litwin shares his journey from a curious 18 year-old to a passionate researcher of the JFK assassination. He discusses his initial fascination with the case, the evolution of conspiracy theories, and his belief in the lone gunman theory. Litwin emphasizes the importance of evidence over speculation, critiques the role of secrecy in shaping public perception, and expresses a desire for more transparency regarding historical documents. He also explores the potential influence of Russian propaganda on American beliefs about the assassination.
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| 0:00.0 | It's been about a week since the government released tens of thousands of documents related to the |
| 0:04.2 | assassination of JFK. So what have we learned? That's the question we're asking today. I'm Jenna, |
| 0:10.3 | and this is smarter news. More than 60 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it's worth just |
| 0:23.0 | recognizing from the get-go here that there are plenty of different opinions about what happened |
| 0:26.9 | and how it happened and why it happened. And with some newly released unredacted documents, |
| 0:32.3 | we continue to see this diversity of opinion play out online and otherwise. And we discussed |
| 0:36.9 | this in our conversation today. We hope to highlight some of these different angles online and otherwise. And we discussed this in our conversation |
| 0:37.9 | today. We hope to highlight some of these different angles in the future. Our guest, Fred Litwin, |
| 0:42.7 | provides a voice of authority with a very specific viewpoint. He has spent decades researching this |
| 0:47.4 | crime and has written four books on this topic. I started off simply by asking him, |
| 0:52.6 | when did his fascination with the assassination start? |
| 0:56.9 | How did you zero in or become more focused on the story of the assassination of President John |
| 1:03.0 | F. Kennedy Jr.? Well, it started when I was 18. I was sitting at home in Montreal, |
| 1:07.8 | Canada, watching Geraldo Rivera in March 1975, and he showed the |
| 1:12.8 | Zepruder film on nationwide TV for the first time ever, and Zepruder film shows the assassination, |
| 1:20.0 | and it shows Kennedy sort of moving back and to the left after the fatal headshot, and that seemed |
| 1:26.4 | like the shot came from the grassy knoll. |
| 1:29.4 | So that set me off right to the library to start to research and find the books and sort of catch up as to what's going on. |
| 1:37.0 | And I've never left this interest. |
| 1:41.5 | You know, I think sometimes it's lost with covering this story about the assassination, |
| 1:45.6 | about just how terrible an assassination is of any president. I mean, anywhere in the world, |
| 1:51.3 | it's a terrible event, terrible, terrible crime. In the years that you've kind of pieced |
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