At the half-century mark, it's clearly high time for the nation to go beyond all the self-serving apologias -- and beyond all the equivocation and speculation. We need the facts -- as Jefferson Morley, one of the few journalists to devote serious effort to the Kennedy case, has demonstrated. Morley has been pursuing a lengthy Freedom of Information battle with the CIA to pry loose more than 1,500 documents that the agency is still concealing in defiance of the 1992 JFK Records Act. At long last, we need the government to come clean and provide the American people with what is legally theirs -- every piece of classified information relating to the Kennedy assassination. Failing that, if the CIA continues to defy the law, the nation needs another Edward Snowden.
The assassination of President
Kennedy and its subsequent coverup was a triumph for the rapidly growing U.S.
national security 
state. Fifty years later, that surveillance colossus increasingly treats the
American people as if we're enemies of the state. We can begin to take control
of our future by finally demanding ownership of our past.
Further reading:
There is a wealth of useful information about the Kennedy assassination available online. But before a beginner wades into these thickets, it's best to start with some of the best books on the subject.
1. " JFK and the
Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters ," by James W. Douglass.
Written by a deeply thoughtful Catholic peace activist, this book portrays
Kennedy as a Cold War martyr -- a leader who sacrificed his life to save the
world from the nuclear holocaust that was being threatened by his national security
team. Douglass draws together much of the best research about the Kennedy
administration, and the tensions that finally tore it apart.
2. " The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know About the Assassination of JFK, " by Gaeton Fonzi. An aggressive Philadelphia investigative journalist, Fonzi was recruited by the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1976 to be one of its lead investigators. (The HSCA's final report in 1979 overturned the Warren Report, concluding that JFK had been killed as the result of a conspiracy, but failed to name the plotters.) Fonzi's inside account of the committee, which came tantalizingly close to cracking the case before it was sabotaged by CIA obstructionism and congressional cowardice, makes for a gripping and eye-opening tale.
3. " Breach of Trust: How
the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why ," by Gerald
McKnight. Written by a professor emeritus of history at Hood College, this is
one of the few invaluable books on the Kennedy case produced by American
academia -- which has been as timid as the press when it comes to exploring this
taboo topic. McKnight documents how U.S. security
agencies immediately hijacked the Warren investigation -- and makes a compelling
case for their own involvement in JFK's death.
4. " Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA ," by Jefferson Morley. By focusing on Scott, chief of the CIA station in Mexico City at the time of the JFK assassination, Morley sheds a revealing light on a fascinating sideshow in the Oswald story. Morley demonstrates how Oswald was the object of an intensive CIA shadow play, which can be traced back to the agency's wizard of deception, James Jesus Angleton.
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