Researchers on Nov. 13 urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to order the release of withheld documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The Mary Ferrell Foundation is seeking to overturn a lower court’s dismissal of their case, which aims to compel the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to disclose the remaining assassination records.
Attorney William Simpich, representing the foundation along with researchers Josiah Thompson and Gary Aguilar, argued that the JFK Records Act mandates the swift release of all assassination-related documents.
“This remedial statute was designed to get these documents out to the public as quickly as possible,” Simpich stated during a hearing in San Francisco Wednesday….