Lawrence Schnapf Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 Justice for Kennedy Act of 2023 sponsored by an Arizona representative David Schweikert calls for release of all assassination records within 30 days of its enactment AND overrides the Deed of Gift and tax records exemptions. The bill has been referred to the House Oversight, Ways and Means, Judicial and Intelligence Committees. Please write the chairs of those committees and ask them to hold a hearing on HR 637 during Sunshine Week (March 12-18th). https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/637/text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Koch Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 Nice, I'm liking this new Republican congress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Down Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 39 minutes ago, Lawrence Schnapf said: AND overrides the Deed of Gift and tax records exemptions. Sounds like that would mean we'd get access to the brain photos etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 This is fantastic. Schweikert is actually one of the good ones (there's still a few), and this bill is a no-brainer. More of this, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Govus Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Co-sponsors would be nice. A companion bill in the Senate would be nice. Write all your congress-critters. I fret that there's nothing I can see in this short bill to compel a party like Comcast/NBC to part with the original films in its archives. Happily from what I understand the Mary Ferrell Foundation lawsuit casts a net wide enough to reach those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Dec. 15, 2022. Tucker Carlson: The CIA was involved in the JFKA. Feb. 2023. President Biden: The JFK Records are secret forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) Great work!!!! This story needs to run on FOX and anywhere else that is an ally in this cause. Edited February 17, 2023 by Chris Barnard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 36 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said: Dec. 15, 2022. Tucker Carlson: The CIA was involved in the JFKA. Feb. 2023. President Biden: The JFK Records are secret forever. This just says it all about who rules the USA. 😞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Schnapf Posted February 17, 2023 Author Share Posted February 17, 2023 George Govus- the bill does eliminate the Deed of Gifts exemption but you are right that it does impose any new obligations on private parties holding assassination records. Of course, the ARRB and now NARA as the "successor in function" could issue a subpoena to NBC. The ARRB had prepared one for the Walter Sheridan papers but the Clinton DOJ declined to serve it. In the Senate, the chair of the Oversight Committee is Gary Peters and the ranking member is Rand Paul. we need to start sending them missives..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Gram Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Lawrence Schnapf said: George Govus- the bill does eliminate the Deed of Gifts exemption but you are right that it does impose any new obligations on private parties holding assassination records. Of course, the ARRB and now NARA as the "successor in function" could issue a subpoena to NBC. The ARRB had prepared one for the Walter Sheridan papers but the Clinton DOJ declined to serve it. In the Senate, the chair of the Oversight Committee is Gary Peters and the ranking member is Rand Paul. we need to start sending them missives..... Larry, since the bill uses the definition of an assassination record from the JFK Act and doesn’t specify records that are currently in the ARC, how would the bill get enforced? I may be misinterpreting something but it seems to me like some sort of review board would be necessary to compel agencies to conduct additional record searches - and I’m not sure how that would work since it’s not written into the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Schnapf Posted February 17, 2023 Author Share Posted February 17, 2023 @Tom- good point. would be good if the bill refers to the regulatory definition of "assassination records" (the ARRB definition). Lack of enforcement tool is one of the tweaks I will be suggesting to representative Schweikert. I have the email of his top staffer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Odisio Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Lawrence Schnapf said: @Tom- good point. would be good if the bill refers to the regulatory definition of "assassination records" (the ARRB definition). Lack of enforcement tool is one of the tweaks I will be suggesting to representative Schweikert. I have the email of his top staffer. Yes, the ARRB definition is a key. It's been a while since I've been in Washington, but couldn't you advocate to Schweikert that an amendment be added to the bill striking the 1992 Act definition and replacing with the much broader ARRB term? The definition in the Act was just preliminary. Determining the final definition, after all, was delegated by the Act to the ARRB (a long way of saying the definition used in the new bill is the wrong definition). I know it's early to be considering amendments but I think the point should be advocated to Schweikert. Imo, collecting information that we know about, and some we don't now know about, currently outside both the NARA Collection and that held by government agencies is more likely to tell us more about what happened that day than what we think those agencies are hiding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Schnapf Posted February 18, 2023 Author Share Posted February 18, 2023 100% agree on materials outside the collection. the ARRB wen out of business in 1998 but its work was not done. I will be speaking with Schweikert's office next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Simpich Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 Schweikert's bill is important. It eliminates the exceptions. It gets those records out there now. We will work with his office on amendments and more. We still need to create effective archives for our own materials and others. We still need to push NARA, NBC and elsewhere for new records. Let's figure out how to get the Justice for Kennedy Act through Congress in 2023. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/637/text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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