JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

by James W. Douglass

specified evidence in the assassination of the president, the Secret Service had instead shredded two boxes of critical documents. On August 7, 1995, the ARRB’s Executive Director David G. Marwell sent a letter to Secret Service officials spelling out the criminal nature of their action: “The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act (JFK Act) forbids the destruction of any documents ‘created or made available for use by, obtained by, or [that] otherwise came into the possession of … the Select Committee on Assassinations … of the House of Representatives.’ It is our understanding that the records in Accession 87-75-0004 that the Secret Service destroyed were examined by the House Select Committee on Assassinations and thus were ‘assassination records’ under the JFK Act and they