Wellfleet Public Library

This spring, 33 years after the passage of the Kennedy Assassination Records Act, the final 80,000 pages of documents relating to the death of the president in Dallas were released to the public-completely unredacted. Those records contain the ultimate secrets that the CIA, FBI and other national security agencies managed to keep classified-until now. When the documents were released, they generated headlines around the world because of the extraordinary details of an untold clandestine history they recorded. What do these records reveal about the Kennedy assassination! Why are they relevant to our understanding about U.S. covert operations, especially in Cuba, during that era? Why didPresident Trump decide to release this documentation now?

These are the questions Peter Kornbluh will discuss with us. For almost 40 years, Kornbluh has been a senior analyst at the National Security Archive, a non-profit research center specializing in the Freedom of Intormation Act and declassified foreign policy documents. He is also a long-time Wellfleet resident and veteran of the Wellfleet Library lecture series.

NOTE: Those who come early will have extra time to peruse a selection of the declassified JFK records which will be on display in the lecture hall before the talk.