This is an archive of files containing some (mostly out-of-print) copies of articles and two books in their entirety on the assassination of President Kennedy that I put on-line in the past year. For those interested, I also have many of these files available in postscript versions which produce "prettified" hardcopy output when sent to a PostScript printer. Please contact me directly -- dave@sgi.com -- if you would like such versions. I would urge anyone interested in learning more about ongoing efforts by the research community to gain access to the myriad of government files still locked away--not JUST relating to the Warren Commission (all but 40 boxes have been released)--that they should contact The Committee for an Open Archives, P.O.Box 6008, Wash.D.C. 20050-0708. These people are attempting to carry on the essential follow-up work regarding the recently passed law, the "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992" (Senate #3006), and see that the Assassination Collection Review Board (ACRB) is prompted consistently and forcefully to do the necessary work of "expeditious . . . public disclosure of all records relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy" as stated in the law. However, as the Committee for an Open Archives states in "Prologue," their third newsletter issue just published, Future battles will be waged over nominees and appointments for the ACRB and its staff, postponed documents, and operations of what this law envisions as "enforceable, independent and accountable process." It will be up to the "public" mentioned above to see that it is. The Committee for an Open Archives will help to coordinate that effort, and be vigilant over the coming years so that all records will be identified and released. As they are released, we will assist the research community to make the most of them, and publicize all that they can tell us about the real killers of John F. Kennedy. We will continue with our national petition drive as well, demanding a change in House Rule #36, so that Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassination records will someday be released as well, and to prevent Congressional abuse of future records that belong to all of us. Unless we keep up constant public scrutiny, challenge and pressure, this bill will remain what it is now, words on paper. The "presumption" has been, and remains, for secrecy in the National Security state we live under. Nothing will be conceded so easily. The authors of this bill may not survive the electoral processes long enough to see it enforced. The ACRB will follow the same tortured path as the HSCA, and other ill-conceived attempts to have this government solve the case. It is evident to us that the only ones left who care enough, or are honest enough to solve it now do not work for the U.S. government, or their "controlled corporations" mentioned in this bill. If the people don't come forward to find the killers of John F. Kennedy, the media and the government will laugh in our face as they bury him once again. We have a flawed bill, with a few interesting provisions. Let's make it work. Thomas Jefferson once said something to the effect that an informed democracy will behave in a responsible manner. If, for whatever reason, people accept the idea that "It doesn't really matter who killed Kennedy-- that was so long ago and what difference does it make now anyways?" then we no longer have the right to think of the governance that is practiced here as democracy by ANY definition of the word. We are not informed, and we are not behaving responsibly. -- dave ratcliffe (dave@sgi.com) (aka "ratitor") santa cruz, ca december 12, 1992 _______________________________________________________________ Subject line listings of filenames included in this archive: 40Comm :Subject: Playing God With the Forty Committee 4thForce :Subject: The Fourth Force -- initial CIA "expansion" via 40s Pentagon War Plans CIA.SWS :Subject: Top Secret: How To Kill--"The CIA's Secret Weapons Systems" CIACtrlF :Subject: How the CIA turned `being directed by the NSC' into `getting approval' DWs :Subject: Disappearing Witnesses: what does "justice" mean w.r.t. assassination? Gabel :Subject: Peter Gabel on, "The Spiritual Truth of `JFK'" GoD :Subject: "The Guns of Dallas" by L. Fletcher Prouty Hoover :Subject: memorandum by J.E. Hoover on 11/29/63 re: his meeting with LBJ JPvv :Subject: How the Media Assassinated the Real Story of JFK's Assassination COA.intro :Subject: Introduction to the W.D.C.-based COMMITTEE FOR AN OPEN ARCHIVES LHO :Subject: The Last Words Of Lee Harvey Oswald PA-NYT :Subject: How the NYT Dissembles Re: Political Assassinations In The U.S. PG :Subject: "Presumed Guilty, How & Why the W.C. Framed Lee Harvey Oswald" PG.intro :Subject: Book Intro: "Presumed Guilty, How & Why the WC Framed L. H. Oswald" SAP :Subject: "The Sabotaging of the American Presidency" -- the U-2 debacle TOA :Subject: "The Taking of America, 1-2-3" by Richard E. Sprague TOA.intro :Subject: Book Intro: "The Taking Of America, 1-2-3" TUM :Subject: The Umbrella System: Prelude to an Assassination ToA :Subject: Book Review: "On The Trial Of The Assassins" WTKaP :Subject: "When They Kill A President," by Roger Craig indo58 :Subject: Indonesia 1958: Nixon, the CIA, and the Secret War introAB :Subject: "An Introduction to the Assassination Business," by L. Fletcher Prouty jfk.bof :Subject: "`JFK:' The Book Of The Film, The Documented Screenplay" is out jfk.loot :Subject: LOOT: "Who Killed JFK? The Media Whitewash" jfkGTrudeau :Subject: garry trudeau 1/8 op-ed on "jfk" in nyt latestOAbill:Subject: new openDarchives bill--latest fallback [was "Archives to be Opened"] prologue1 :Subject: "Prologue"#1, newsletter of The Committee for an Open Archive (COA) ascii files (no compression, etc.) sizes in bytes: (total is approximately 1.9 MB) total 3997 -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 30305 Dec 13 16:50 40Comm -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 17717 Dec 13 16:50 4thForce -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 18859 Dec 13 16:57 CIA.SWS -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 37827 Dec 13 16:51 CIACtrlF -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 9646 Dec 13 16:53 COA.intro -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 51255 Dec 13 16:51 DWs -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 19275 Dec 13 16:51 Gabel -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 67755 Dec 13 16:51 GoD -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 30792 Dec 13 16:52 Hoover -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 58863 Dec 13 16:50 JPvv -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 33846 Dec 13 16:53 LHO -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 105600 Dec 13 16:54 PA-NYT -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 543644 Dec 13 16:56 PG -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 27877 Dec 13 17:49 PG.intro -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 63890 Dec 13 17:00 SAP -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 550497 Dec 13 17:59 TOA -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 14573 Dec 13 17:13 TOA.intro -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 55230 Dec 13 17:11 TUM -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 8077 Dec 13 17:12 ToA -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 139446 Dec 13 17:14 WTKaP -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 2198 Dec 13 18:00 contents -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 47173 Dec 13 17:15 indo58 -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 27398 Dec 13 17:17 introAB -rw-r--r-- 1 dave engr 3387 Dec 13 17:34 jfk.bof -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 18274 Dec 13 17:42 jfk.loot -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 8780 Dec 13 17:46 jfkGTrudeau -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 26796 Dec 13 17:49 latestOAbill -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave engr 20046 Dec 13 17:50 prologue1