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- <text id=92TT0237>
- <title>
- Feb. 03, 1992: American Notes:Assassinations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 03, 1992 The Fraying Of America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- ASSASSINATIONS
- Open Minds, Closed Files
- </hdr><body>
- <p> After the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded
- its 1979 investigation of the death of John F. Kennedy, its files
- were stored away in 848 cartons deep within the National
- Archives. Most were supposed to remain sealed there until the
- year 2009. But as a result of the fuss created by Oliver
- Stone's film JFK, researchers may be able to sift through the
- boxes much sooner. Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes, the Democrat
- who chaired the committee, pledged last week to push a House
- resolution lifting the 30-year secrecy rule.
- </p>
- <p> The committee concurred with the Warren Commission's
- finding that the President was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. But
- it also concluded that Kennedy's assassination was "probably"
- the result of a conspiracy because a controversial acoustic
- analysis of audiotapes from the shooting seemed to indicate that
- a second gunman had fired a shot at the President.
- </p>
- <p> What would conspiracy theorists find if the files were
- opened? Not much that has not already been made public except
- for some classified documents that contain CIA and FBI sources
- and methods. "There's no smoking gun in there," scoffs G. Robert
- Blakey, the assassination committee's chief counsel.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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