There’s a lot of pages.
This one seems like a given, but there are a couple thousand pages being sorted through. Every conversation, visitor, where JFK went for breakfast, and even the color of people’s shoes is going to be in the reports. Not all the information is directly related to the assassination. A good portion of the report is things classified because of the names of people/places attached to them, and have nothing to do with the assassination of JFK.
The process of picking this stuff apart takes a long time.
People are searching for inconsistencies within the major narrative of the assassination and new elements to the case revealed in the unreleased reports. This requires a very delicate approach, and with the amount of data that has been released, it is going to take years to come up with any sort of meaningful counter narrative. While there may be new elements to the case, like the FBI knew about Lee Harvey Oswald to a degree before the shooting, that doesn’t make the whole event a government conspiracy.
The people collecting and interpreting the data start with a set of their own conclusions. Perspective bias and argument from ignorance are going to rule the minds of the people who research into the reports. Most are looking for a new world order, a mafia hit, or lizard people. Any minute discrepancy is not something to be accounted for by further research, but proof that their theory is correct. If there aren’t any discrepancies to be found, then the lack of evidence is evidence in and of itself.
That does not mean there is nothing to be learned from the reports. The information released will fill in some of the gaps in relation to the overall narrative of what happened to JFK. The questions of “How much knowledge did the FBI have about Lee Harvey Oswald?” and “What was done right after the shooting?” are already starting to be answered. When historians, analysts, and even amateur hobbyists take their time and go through the report something meaningful will be found. It just probably won’t be the sign of the beast, a political assassination, or that JFK never really died in the first place.
This one seems like a given, but there are a couple thousand pages being sorted through. Every conversation, visitor, where JFK went for breakfast, and even the color of people’s shoes is going to be in the reports. Not all the information is directly related to the assassination. A good portion of the report is things classified because of the names of people/places attached to them, and have nothing to do with the assassination of JFK.
The process of picking this stuff apart takes a long time.
People are searching for inconsistencies within the major narrative of the assassination and new elements to the case revealed in the unreleased reports. This requires a very delicate approach, and with the amount of data that has been released, it is going to take years to come up with any sort of meaningful counter narrative. While there may be new elements to the case, like the FBI knew about Lee Harvey Oswald to a degree before the shooting, that doesn’t make the whole event a government conspiracy.
The people collecting and interpreting the data start with a set of their own conclusions. Perspective bias and argument from ignorance are going to rule the minds of the people who research into the reports. Most are looking for a new world order, a mafia hit, or lizard people. Any minute discrepancy is not something to be accounted for by further research, but proof that their theory is correct. If there aren’t any discrepancies to be found, then the lack of evidence is evidence in and of itself.
That does not mean there is nothing to be learned from the reports. The information released will fill in some of the gaps in relation to the overall narrative of what happened to JFK. The questions of “How much knowledge did the FBI have about Lee Harvey Oswald?” and “What was done right after the shooting?” are already starting to be answered. When historians, analysts, and even amateur hobbyists take their time and go through the report something meaningful will be found. It just probably won’t be the sign of the beast, a political assassination, or that JFK never really died in the first place.
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