Ask HN: Did someone dig into the JFK files?

ta12653421 | 32 points

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.

didgetmaster | 13 days 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

rdegges | 13 days 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).

rKarpinski | 13 days ago

Anything suprising would be redacted anyway.

cranberryturkey | 13 days 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...

rurban | 12 days 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.

uxp100 | 13 days 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.

krapp | 13 days ago

Did someone dig into the UFO files?

bulla | 13 days 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.

bobremeika | 13 days ago