RWB 61 James DiEugenio: JFK Truth Strikes at the Heart of the Deep State

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61 James DiEugenio: JFK Truth Strikes at the Heart of the Deep State

James DiEugenio is one of the most respected researchers and writers on the political assassinations of the 1960s. He has written or co-edited many books, including JFK REVISITED, the companion piece to Oliver Stone’s documentaries, JFK REVISITED: Through the Looking Glass and JFK: Destiny Betrayed, for which Jim wrote both screenplays.

His latest book, with four co-authors, is THE JFK ASSASSINATION CHOKEHOLDS That Inescapably Prove There was a Conspiracy.

On April 1, 2025, he testified about the JFK assassination to Congress (with Oliver Stone and writer Jefferson Morley).

Jim is the editor and publisher of KennedysandKing.com, which seeks to present “the best research concerning the political assassinations of the 1960s and their historical context.” And he posts at jamesanthonydieugenio.substack.com, where you will find the first three parts of a series on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, to be followed by articles about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

Summary of our conversation

The April 1st JFK hearing had a pretty big impact, with 1.7 million views on the Forbes YouTube channel alone. Added to other channels, it’s going on 6 million views. And he and Stone appeared on NewsNation twice and Fox News twice, with many more millions getting this information perhaps for the first time.

The hearings follow Donald Trump’s order to declassify documents on the JFK, RFK, and MLK cases. The struggle for the files goes on. The intelligence agencies have had their way for a long time due to a compliant Congress and lack of chutzpah by the executive branch. They are used to being able to keep their secrets. And the courts have been just as compliant.

The Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) between 1994 and 1998 declassified something like 2 million pages of documents. This was created by Congress as a reaction to Oliver Stone’s 1991 film, JFK.

Just posted (May16, 2025) at KennedysandKing.com is Andrew Iler’s article, Why Are We Still Declassifying JFK Records? Critical ARRB Final Determinations Buried and Ignored. “The declassification process should have been concluded years ago. The Luna Committee should call John Tunheim and David Marwell to testify about its Final Determinations immediately.” The ARRB had “unprecedented authority to issue binding determinations to release or postpone release of assassination records. … This lengthy article will hopefully act as a primer for those wanting to understand better how it is that the American public has continued to be denied transparency and the full truth in respect to government-held records regarding one of the most consequential and traumatic events in the history of the nation.”

Jim DiEugenio: “Every single document that was not [reviewed and released by the ARRB] by 1998 should have been declassified in 2017. So, all this stuff we’ve been going through for the last eight years has been Sturm and Drang [storm and stress]. Everything should have been done back then. If anything shows you that the Kennedy assassination strikes at the heart of the deep state, it’s that. The Kennedy assassination lives in a kind of netherworld, a Bermuda triangle where the laws and the strictures of Congress, of the presidency – none of this matters. If anything shows you how important that event was, it’s stuff like this.”

Another Congressional hearing was upcoming on May 20. “They’re trying to get Sandy Styles.” (She did not appear. She was on the stairs inside the Texas School Book Depository when Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly descended after supposedly shooting Kennedy. She did not see or hear him or anyone else on the rickety, wooden stairs at that time, neither did her co-worker Victoria Adams, who was with her.)

They did get former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden. In 1964 he tried to tell the Warren Commission about the first plot to kill JFK in November 1963, in Chicago, three weeks before Dallas, but he was imprisoned for 6 years on false charges to shut him up.

There was a 2nd plot in November 1963 to kill Kennedy, in Tampa, that was also thwarted. Dallas was the third and successful plot. All had similar characteristics. “These were not one-off, nutty guys. These were coordinated conspiracies in each place. And the overlapping similarities are simply amazing.”

Also discussed:

THE FINAL ANALYSIS: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (forensic analysis of the JFK autopsy x-rays prove two headshots from the right front and one from the rear) by David W. Manik, M.D., Ph.D. and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.

The Zapruder film was shown to the American people for the first time in 1975 and it created a firestorm of outrage, because it clearly shows Kennedy being shot from the front. The government had been saying since 1963 that he had been shot from behind. Clearly there was more than one shooter, because he was also shot in the back, proving a conspiracy. This caused Congress to reinvestigate the assassination.

In 1992, Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, caused a similar outrage, which caused Congress to force the release of assassination records.

Today, we should tell Representative Anna Luna to keep fighting for full disclosure about the assassination and tell her adversaries to stop thwarting her but rather to help her. “We haven’t had anything like [Luna’s task force] in over 20 years, since the [Assassination Records] Review Board closed its doors.”

Oliver Stone was attacked for suggesting, in his film, that Kennedy was going to withdraw from Vietnam, for showing Johnson, as president, telling the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Just get me elected [in 1964] and you can have your damned war,” for suggesting that it was a huge motivation for JFK’s assassination.

Then the Review Board in the 90s found records proving that Kennedy did plan to withdraw from Vietnam, vindicating Stone. Even the New York Times reported that discovery. Even they could not ignore that evidence. “Kennedy had an exit plan from Vietnam.”

KennedysandKing.com
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YouTube video
Oliver Stone and Others Testify on President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records

May 15, 2025
(100) The Conspiracy to Murder King, Part 1

May 17, 2025
The Conspiracy to Murder King, Pt. 2

May 25, 2025
The Conspiracy to Murder King, Part 3

Andrew Iler article, May 16, 2025
Why Are We Still Declassifying JFK Records? Critical ARRB Final Determinations Buried and Ignored

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