Ask HN: Did someone dig into the JFK files?
32 pointsby ta126534213 days ago9 comments
  • didgetmaster3 days ago
    It is like when someone is being sued in court and claims in the press that they have turned over X thousands of pages of documents.

    When you really dig into those documents you find 90%+ of them are completely irrelevant (old phone books, Chinese takeout menus, etc.) and that the few important ones that would actually shed light on the case, are missing.

  • rdegges3 days ago
    Ragie (a RAG company) published an interactive chatbot that lets you ask questions about the JFK files. It’s pretty interesting, they had to do a lot of OCR on old docs to get it to a usable state.

    https://chat.ragie.ai/o/jfk-files

  • rKarpinski3 days ago
    It predates the files release by about ten years but I found Robert Cairo's latest book on LBJ, 'The Passage of Power' pretty enlightening on the coverup (not the crime).
  • cranberryturkey3 days ago
    Anything suprising would be redacted anyway.
  • uxp1003 days ago
    Jefferson Morley is a JFK conspiracy guy and I listened to a podcast where he discussed what was released and to badly summarize a conversation I listened to on a bike trainer a month ago: nothing really impactful regarding the assassination, but some interesting (shitty) details about the CIA. He has a newsletter you can look up that I’m sure goes into great detail.
  • rurban2 days ago
    The expert Chad Nagle did and found that 2 pages were missing. And drove to the archives to get those 2 missing pages, which revealed one of the JFK shooters as a Cuban professional hit man. Who took orders from the CIA.

    https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/from-the-new-jfk-files-fbi-r...

  • krapp3 days ago
    >Did someone already dig into the released JFK files? Or are there any projects?

    https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what%27s+in+the+jfk+files

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43594918

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43430492

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414002

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43408399

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922624

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34006548

    Yes.

    You haven't heard about it probably because nothing in them was a bombshell revelation blowing the lid off someone's conspiracy theory. Mostly they just revealed some CIA intel programs and doxxed some people.

    • cookiemonsieura day ago
      That's probably because anything of relevance or incriminating has been redacted.

      Which defeats the entire purpose of releasing the files in the first place.

      It was probably done to appease orange man's voters. Another empty gesture, like "renaming the gulf of mexico to gulf of america"

  • bulla3 days ago
    Did someone dig into the UFO files?
    • ta126534213 days ago
      well, the comparison is quite far off the track:

      in case of Kennedy, there is a real case with whatever information hidden for the last 50 years.

      in case of UFO, well - we have some smartphone video (which are by coincidence always blurred due to pixels, even on a 8k 2025 device) and some guys claiming whatever topic.

      so, regarding a possible evidence for (X), i would dig into the former, while the latter would be much more fun

      • nextn3 days ago
        > well, the comparison is quite far off the track:

        Might not be that far off the track.

        A post on X says "US Military Intelligence leaders (MJ-12) didn't like this idea because it would antagonize the Extra Terrestrial Biological Entities who inhabited to the dark side of the moon."

        https://x.com/Andercot/status/1904692633697730644 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gm7T2wBbYAMEN3_?format=jpg&name=...

        • seattle_spring2 days ago
          Zero evidence that the document you're referring to isn't completely fake.
      • bigyabai3 days ago
        FWIW, any interesting information about the JFK assassination is still likely withheld. The newly released files still have plenty of redactions and include a warning that they are not every record related to the case. You will probably die before seeing anything surprising come from JFK's CIA folder.

        > in case of UFO, well - we have some smartphone video

        We've got FLIR videos too, it's kinda what GOFAST et. al are famous for. Plenty more interesting than the Kennedy files, but that's just my opinion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos

        • markus_zhang3 days ago
          I also believe really interesting things, if there is any, did not leave a trace. People who send assassins towards presidents, if it did happen, probably did not write down their plans in detail. And any agreements between the power groups is most likely oral and "within certain understanding", likely built through generations of common interests.
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    • belter3 days ago
      Did you notice has we had no more sightings or tic-tac Air Force videos in the last 2 years?
      • EA-31673 days ago
        Probably done testing whatever it was, most likely some kind of tech for drones or maybe even the B-21 or F-47. Just like the "Flying triangles" from back in the 1980's and early 1990's were probably the F-117 and B-2 test articles.
        • SnazzyUncle3 days ago
          The stuff they showed on those videos a few years ago were a lot of the often balloons or children's birthday balloons and the incredible speeds were ~40mph.

          There is several guys that on YouTube that seriously investigate the UFO sightings and almost all of them are either flares, children's balloons or in some cases people literally filming a reflection of a light fitting in a hotel room.

  • bobremeika3 days ago
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