{"id":15211,"date":"2025-03-18T01:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=15211"},"modified":"2025-03-20T23:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:43:52","slug":"abc-news-nightline-report-by-peter-lance-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-jfk-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=15211","title":{"rendered":"With President Trump&#8217;s order to release files on JFK&#8217;s death, consider my 1983 ABC NEWS report on public concerns back then that The Feds were hiding the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"With%20President%20Trump%27s%20order%20to%20release%20files%20on%20JFK%27s%20death%2C%20consider%20my%201983%20ABC%20NEWS%20report%20on%20public%20concerns%20back%20then%20that%20The%20Feds%20were%20hiding%20the%20truth\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15218\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/JFK-PL-Dallas-PL-Book-Depository-11.22.83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/JFK-PL-Dallas-PL-Book-Depository-11.22.83.jpg 2152w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/JFK-PL-Dallas-PL-Book-Depository-11.22.83-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/JFK-PL-Dallas-PL-Book-Depository-11.22.83-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/JFK-PL-Dallas-PL-Book-Depository-11.22.83-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/JFK-PL-Dallas-PL-Book-Depository-11.22.83-1536x1136.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/JFK-PL-Dallas-PL-Book-Depository-11.22.83-2048x1515.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/JFK-PL-Dallas-PL-Book-Depository-11.22.83-800x592.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/>By Peter Lance <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>March 18th 2025<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/after-trump-announcement-dojs-national-security-division-pulls\/story?id=119909075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News report<\/a>s that Trump&#8217;s promise to release thousands of declassified pages on the JFK assassination had sent the DOJ&#8217;s National Security Division into a &#8220;scramble.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Trump&#8217;s revelation Monday came weeks after <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-declassify-jfk-mlk-assassinations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the NYT reported<\/a> that, &#8220;President Trump told security agencies to develop plans to make public all documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8221;\u00a0 Jr. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In light of that story and the 2022 release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/15\/politics\/jfk-assassination-documents\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by The National Archives<\/a> of new files on the assassination of JFK, I share this piece that I produced and reported on the 20th anniversary of his death when I was a correspondent for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MXISJ8fYFqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE<\/span><\/a>. <\/strong>You can screen it on<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MXISJ8fYFqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YOUTUBE<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of President Kennedy&#8217;s assassination, I spent more than a month reading the entire Warren Commission Report and every book on the subject to report on the aftermath of\u00a0 &#8220;the crime of the century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Initially, only a small percentage of the public believed in a conspiracy to kill the President, but 20 years later, the number had grown to 80% as illustrated in this graph.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18753\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Oswald-Graphic-by-DB-ABC-News.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Oswald-Graphic-by-DB-ABC-News.jpg 936w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Oswald-Graphic-by-DB-ABC-News-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Oswald-Graphic-by-DB-ABC-News-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Oswald-Graphic-by-DB-ABC-News-800x627.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/>That came following a series of scandals beginning with Watergate, followed by blockbuster disclosures from House and Senate committees re: multiple CIA plots to use The Mafia to kill Fidel Castro. That evidence was intentionally withheld from the Warren Commission, even though CIA Director Allen Dulles was a Commission member.<\/p>\n<p>Other evidence relating to accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was hidden from the Commission by J. Edgar Hoover and various FBI agents.<\/p>\n<p>By 1968, following the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy the public became even more skeptical and the word &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; was woven into the fabric of recent American history.<\/p>\n<p>From Irish statesman Edmund Burke to Spanish philosopher George Santayana to Winston Churchill, each of them made a prediction that amplifies the significance of The January 6th Committee&#8217;s groundbreaking disclosures: &#8220;Those who forget history are destined to relive it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"With%20President%20Trump%27s%20order%20to%20release%20files%20on%20JFK%27s%20death%2C%20consider%20my%201983%20ABC%20NEWS%20report%20on%20public%20concerns%20back%20then%20that%20The%20Feds%20were%20hiding%20the%20truth\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>By Peter Lance March 18th 2025 ABC News reports that Trump&#8217;s promise to release thousands of declassified pages on the JFK assassination had sent the DOJ&#8217;s National Security Division into a &#8220;scramble.&#8221; Trump&#8217;s revelation Monday came weeks after the NYT reported that, &#8220;President Trump told security agencies to develop plans to make public all documents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1234,814,1236,1237,1233,1235,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15211"}],"version-history":[{"count":112,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20377,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211\/revisions\/20377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}