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Ask HN: Did someone dig into the JFK files?

32•ta12653421•9mo ago
I'm wondering:

Did someone already dig into the released JFK files? Or are there any projects?

Today, in days of AI, this should be somehow much more easy & less time consuming?

Comments

cranberryturkey•9mo ago
Anything suprising would be redacted anyway.
bulla•9mo ago
Did someone dig into the UFO files?
belter•9mo ago
Did you notice has we had no more sightings or tic-tac Air Force videos in the last 2 years?
EA-3167•9mo 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.
SnazzyUncle•9mo 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.

ta12653421•9mo 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

bigyabai•9mo 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_zhang•9mo 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.
nextn•9mo 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_spring•9mo ago
Zero evidence that the document you're referring to isn't completely fake.
krapp•9mo 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.

cookiemonsieur•9mo 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"

rKarpinski•9mo 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).
uxp100•9mo 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.
didgetmaster•9mo 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.

rdegges•9mo 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

bobremeika•9mo ago
Thanks for posting the link!
bobremeika•9mo ago
CEO of Ragie here. Check out http://jfk-files.ai/ and let me know what you think. It's fun to play with and I've gotten pretty positive feedback so far.
rurban•9mo 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...

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