The National Archives Released Thousands of JFK Files

Speaking of that, they've just released all those documents, JFK documents. Anything come out of that? Oh, yeah. This one come out of it? Oh. Talk to him. One thing that come out was they were saying that Lee Harvey Oswald was a Russian asset and that he had been honeypotted by his wife. And he lived in Russia in the 1950s. And they think that in this, I think what Russia's trying to say in this is that they were responsible for making Lee Harvey Oswald try to kill the president. There was so much shit going on with that story. For anybody that thinks in 2022 that you know what happened in 1963, you're crazy. What does it say? What does Tucker Carlson say? What does he say? They spoke with someone who... Well, let's play it so we can hear the words. It's seven minutes long. It's long. Oh. I don't think we can play it. Just let me hear a little bit of it. He's setting it up. That murders the president of the United States. That's good. And then less than 48 hours later, that lone gunman is himself murdered by another lone gunman. What are the odds of that? It's one thing if you get struck by lightning, rare but possible. But if every member of your family also gets struck by lightning all on different days, you might begin to suspect these are not entirely natural events. But oh, replied the U.S. government, they are. This bizarre chain of killings was all entirely natural. So less than a year after the JFK assassination, the Johnson White House released something called the Warren Commission Report. And the report concluded that while their motives remained unclear, both Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby had acted alone. No one helped them. There was no conspiracy of any kind. Case closed. Time to move on. Many Americans did move on. At the time they had no idea how shoddy and corrupt the Warren Commission was. It would be nearly 50 years before the CIA admitted under duress that in fact it had withheld information from investigators about its relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald. But even then at the time before that was known, the government's explanation didn't seem entirely plausible and some people started asking obvious questions about it. It was at that point, as Americans started to doubt the official story, that the term conspiracy theory entered our lexicon. As Professor Lance de Haven Smith points out in his book on the subject, the term conspiracy theory did not exist as a phrase in everyday American conversation before 1964. In 1964, the year the Warren Commission issued its report, the New York Times published five stories in which conspiracy theory appeared. Now today of course the term conspiracy theory appears in pretty much every New York Times story about American politics. It's wielded, now as then, as a weapon against anyone who asks questions the government doesn't feel like answering. But despite 60 years of name calling those questions have not disappeared. In fact they have multiplied with time. And here's one of them. In April of 1964 a psychiatrist called Louis Joylan West visited Jack Ruby in his isolation cell in his death's jail. According to West's written assessment, he found that Jack Ruby was quote, technically insane and in need of immediate psychiatric hospitalization. Those are conclusions that puzzlingly no one who had spoken to Jack Ruby previously had reached. Ruby had seemed perfectly sane to the people who knew him. Louis Joylan West pronounced him crazy. But what West did not say was that he was working for the CIA at the time. Louis Joylan West was a contract psychiatrist for the spy agency. He was also an expert on mind control and a prominent player in the now infamous MK Ultra program in which the CIA gave powerful psychiatric drugs to Americans without their knowledge. So of all the psychiatrists in the world, what in the world was this guy doing in Jack Ruby's prison cell? The media did not seem interested in finding out. In fact, the New York Times in an extensive 1999 obituary of West never mentioned the fact that he had worked for the CIA, much less his time in Jack Ruby's cell. Which seems relevant. So you can see why non-crazy people would wonder about what really happened. And of course many have wondered. In 1976, long forgotten, the House of Representatives impaneled a special committee to reinvestigate the JFK assassination. Their bipartisan conclusion? That Kennedy was almost certainly murdered as the result of a conspiracy. But the question is, a conspiracy by whom? Well the obvious suspect would be the CIA. Why else would the agency withhold critical evidence from investigators? Is there a benign explanation for that? For maintaining this level of secrecy for this many years? Not that we're aware of. And it is illegal. In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. That act mandated full disclosure of all documents by 2017. 54 years after JFK was killed. The last administration promised to comply fully with that law. But under intense pressure from CIA Director Mike Pompeo withheld in the end thousands of pages of CIA documents. Today, this afternoon, the Biden administration did exactly the same thing. That would be thousands of pages of documents after nearly 60 years. After the death of every single person involved. But we still can't see them. Clearly it's not to protect any person. They're all dead. It's to protect an institution. But why? Well today we decided to find out. We spoke to someone who had access to these still hidden CIA documents. The person was deeply familiar with what they contained. We asked this person directly, did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American president? And here's the reply we received verbatim. Quote, the answer is yes. I believe they were involved. It's a whole different country from what we thought it was. It's all fake. It's hard to imagine a more jarring response than that. Again, this is not a quote conspiracy theorist that we spoke to. Not even close. This is someone with direct knowledge of the information that once again is being withheld from the American public. And the answer we received was unequivocal. Yes, the CIA was involved in the assassination of the president. Wow. Now some people are not useful. Bro. Wow. Jesus Christ. 97% of the documents they said have now been released. I think as of this time, like whatever yesterday or something and people are starting to look through those, they don't expect to find anything in those because they're still valid. They've kept documents. Thousands of documents. Well, I would definitely not let people read the ones that would be looking bad. I mean, that's the only explanation. Why can't we read them? They must be bad. They can't be good. Well, they say a lot of great things about the CIA. We're pretty humble. I mean, we don't want that. That's going to cause chaos. That's why. The whole country is going to fucking riot. How would they ever find out? If they're able to keep shit from us, how will they ever find out? Even though there's been laws passed and rulings that they're supposed to release it in 2017, like, but why not? What are you doing? What's happening?