An American Tragedy — страница 3

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the release of thousands of pages of assassination files and related documents since 1993. There has been talk of releasing files that have never been seen before in years to come, however, the chances of that proving any conspiracy are slim to none. A five-member civilian review board, lead by federal judge John Tunheim, has ordered the release of more documents. The board continues to work towards the disclosure of all documents that the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other governmental agencies have succeeded in keeping secret ( Why We Need ). Forty years of doctoring and changing files to fit the story of the Warren Commission will most likely prove nothing more than we know today. The story of John F. Kennedy and his assassin (or assassins) may never be told to keep the integrity of the

United States government in tact, and that very well may be a good thing. Why should we even bother with finding the truth of November 22, 1963? We should bother because of the undiminished centrality of November 22, 1963 in the American imagination. In 1964, seventy-six percent of the American people had confidence in the government. Since then, that statistic has declined to an amazing nineteen percent in part because of the doubt the Kennedy conspiracy has created ( Why We Need ). However, the assumptions made by people today, looking back, will always be a problem as the continuing search for the truth about John F. Kennedy carries on. Works Cited 1. The John F. Kennedy Assassination Homepage. www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/kennedy/body.html 11 April 2001. 2. The Kennedy

Assassination. www.mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm 11 April 2001. 3. Why We Need the Real History of the Kennedy Assassination. Jefferson Morley. Washington Post: 22 April 2001. 4. Posner, Gerald. Case Closed. Random House: New York, 1993. 5. Summer, Anthony. Conspiracy. McGraw-Hill: New York, 1980. 6. The Warren Commission. Report of the President s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. United States Government Printing Office: Washington, 1964.