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27 Files I Need More Urgently Than The JFK Files

27 Files I Need More Urgently Than The JFK Files

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“Journalists and others review just-released FBI documents related to the assassination of President Kennedy, Washington DC, December 7, 1977. (Photo: Marion S Trikosko/US News and World Report Photo Collection/PhotoQuest/Getty Images)”

My curiosity about John F. Kennedy’s assassination begins and ends with why Ronan Farrow hated Jackie so much. (I have to fall on my sword for a movie with the line “Brookline is no place to bury a president.”1) Maybe it extends to why Peter Saarsgaard, of all people, was cast as Bobby Kennedy … but really, I do not have more questions about JFK’s death. This week the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration reportedly released about 63,000 pages of documents related to the investigation of the assassination of the 35th president; I will read exactly none. Why would I read any of those when I’m due for my quarterly re-read of the best Sony hack emails?

Here’s what I would actually read: any correspondence related to how Hannah Berner booked that …

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