The Mary Ferrell Foundation, an online source for records concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is suing President Joe Biden and the National Archives in an effort to get the federal government to release all documents it possesses related to the president’s 1963 murder.
The suit was filed a year after the Biden administration postponed the release of 16,000 records. The records were collected under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.
The act required that all records be released by Oct. 26, 2017, but both former President Donald Trump and Biden have delayed releasing the information.
The release of the records was postponed by Biden until Dec. 15, However, the foundation claimed that any delay in the release of the records was illegal.
The claim, filed in federal court on Wednesday, said the action was “depriving” researchers and historians of opportunities to learn about the assassination.
“It’s high time that the government got its act together and obeyed the spirit and the letter of the law,” said the vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination and the CIA.
Kennedy was killed on Nov. 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
Kennedy’s nephew, Robert Kennedy Jr., agreed with the foundation in calling for information about his uncle’s murder.
“It was a momentous crime, a crime against American democracy. And the American people have the right to know,” Kennedy Jr., said. “The law requires the records be released. It’s bizarre. It’s been almost 60 years since my uncle’s death. What are they hiding?”
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