RWB 51. Larry Schnapf: The JFK Files and the Need to Know the Truth about the Assassination

Reality with Bruce de Torres 51.
Larry Schnapf: The JFK Files and the Need to Know the Truth about the Assassination

Larry Schnapf, an environmental attorney based in New York City, is a collaborator at JFKFacts.Substack.com and co-host of their podcast. He has been interested in the JFK Assassination since it happened when he was in the 5th grade.

In college he did an independent study project about the assassination. He has written articles on the Warren Commission investigation. He is a long-time member of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a former board member of Citizens Against Political Assassinations, was chair of the CAPA legal committee, and he has lectured on various legal and evidentiary issues concerning the assassination.

In this episode, Larry walks us through the major investigations and the records that became available, starting with the Warren Commission in 1964, then the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970s, followed by Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, which ignited the public outcry for full disclosure that caused Congress to pass the JFK Records Act of 1992.

The Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) was created to facilitate the release of those records, and millions were made public by 1998 when the ARRB went out of existence.

Larry then recounts how the Trump and Biden administrations blew past deadlines for the release of many remaining documents and how the FBI recently announced the discovery of 2,400 previously unknown JFK records. And he describes own legal efforts to force compliance with the legally mandated disclosure.

We recorded this show on Monday, March 17, 2025. Earlier in the day, President Trump announced that “all” the withheld records, some 80,000, would be released on Tuesday, March 18.

Larry and I agreed that the government must acknowledge the truth about the JFK assassination. I here add that we the people should give the government no peace until it does. A train of horrors, wrapped in stories that have unraveled as lies, has been inflicted on us and the world by the United States government, following the pattern set by the murder of John F. Kennedy. Without “the disinfectant” of sunlight and transparency, evil deeds will continue to be hatched in the dark, where money and power meet.

From JFKFacts.Substack.com:

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“To get cutting edge journalism about causes of JFK's assassination.
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“To promote a trusted news source whose JFK reporting has been picked up by the New York Times, Fox News, CBS News, NewsNation, Associated Press and other credible news organizations across the political spectrum.
“To receive the latest information about the ongoing declassification of JFK records and the latest findings of the best JFK researchers.
“To listen to the JFK Facts podcast with hosts Jeff Morley and Larry Schnapf.
“To access Morley’s JFK reporting, dating back to 2012.”

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