And in typical Trump fashion, the release has beenchaotic and slipshod.
The files arent organized, summarized, or labeled in a way that makes sense.
Its just raw PDFs with a long numeric string uploaded onto a website.
Picture of President Kennedy in the limousine in Dallas, Texas, on Main Street, minutes before the assassination. Also in the presidential limousine are Jackie Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nellie.© Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News
hit the PDF and see what you get.
And, according to one lawyer going through them, they include the sensitive personal information of living people.
Some of these people are alive.
This was totally unnecessary & contributed nothing to understanding 11/22/63.
The pages come thanks to an executive order Trump signed after his inauguration.
Around 99 percent of JFK documents were already public thanks to a 1992 push to declassify material.
Or you might wait for them to finish uploading what theyve got.
As of this writing, the Archives has uploaded about 60,000 pages spread across more than 2,000 PDF files.
Trump has teased that hes releasing 80,000 pages total.
The Archives said on its website that its working to digitize what it has.
Going through these files will take a lot of time, probably years.
Historians and news outlets are pouring over them right now and posting their findings in real-time.
But real discoveries will take time and people with deep knowledge of the event to process.
No amount of shoddily released government documents will shut the wound.
There can be no satisfaction.
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