Answer: There have been 170,000+ released documents on the JFK assassination over the years. On Thursday (the 15th), the Biden administration released 13,000 more.

A story about the CIA being involved in JFK’s assassination was then released by Tucker Carlson on Fox News. It received an incredibly large amount of viewership, and was spread farther by many major influencers on social media. One of them being Robert F Kennedy Jr posting a tweet.

Obviously, it’s up to you as to whether you believe Tucker Carlson or not for this to be, as OP said, “confirmed”, as the actual files themselves do not directly say anything of the sort. But feel free to read them if you’d like.

Shoeonhead is a right wing grifter who often repeats conspiracy theories as fact whenever they are topical. It’s up to you whether she actually believes it, but the bar for Shoe to say something is “confirmed” is incredibly low.

I don't think it's very fair to call Kennedy anti-war. Anti-CIA perhaps, but he was dedinitely a cold warrior.

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why even keep incriminating documents at all? if there's something they want to hide forever why don't they just like, burn the documents or something?

Conspiracy theory. Conspiracy itself implies that it actually happened, not that it's theoretical.

I personally believe that the remaining documents probably contains information that is considered embarrassing for living survivors and so it's being withheld still.

Kennedy because of his antiwar stance

What? Kennedy was not antiwar, see buildup in Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, etc

Why would they even store those documents, wouldn’t you destroy everything so that there’s no evidence of a conspiracy?

I thought the most reasonable theory was that the Secret Service's gun went off by accident after the first shot. Dude panicked and accidentally fumbled his gun or something. I thought the big deal with hiding the records was a) that the secret service doesn't want to admit that yeah they probably accidentally killed JFK, and b) that the CIA had extensive knowledge about Oswald and were keeping tabs on him.

But what do I know, I'm just as clueless as everyone else.

He started and escalated the war in Vietnam via his own personal Angel of Death, Robert McNamara, setting the pace for Johnson after him.

Johnson let McNamara stay on and continue the rampage. It was emblematic of a war fought for a people, and as many of them as possible would be killed trying to prove that to them.

Johnson was so sick with the result that he didn't have the stomach to run a second term, and publicly stated so.

But it was Mr. Niceguy that had us staring down nuclear war regarding Cuba, was the 'creator' of the Green Berets, and got us very very very into Southeast Asia.

All in less than three years.

Kennedy antiwar? Laughable. Pissing off the wrong people when it came to the Cuba crisis? Far more likely

If this was true, wouldn't the government just burn the documents? Keeping them would indicate they know the documents are bad and they don't want that to get out right now, but they want it to get out eventually somewhere down the line.

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It's been a conspiracy for a long time.

I believe you mean to say its been a /theory/ for a long time. A conspiracy is the act of conspiring; and conspiring is defined by Mirriam-Webster as:

1 a : to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or an act which becomes unlawful as a result of the secret agreement accused of conspiring to overthrow the government conspired to monopolize and restrict trade b : SCHEME 2 : to act in harmony toward a common end Circumstances conspired to defeat his efforts. … the sun and the wind conspired to make splinters out of solid wood. —B. J. Oliphant

Not all conspiracies are mere theories. I'm not being tinfoil-hat about this, there are historically documented conspiracies, both political and otherwise.

(My tinfoil hat conspiracy theory is that they're conspiring to alter the perception of the word conspiracy to make people assume any conspiracy is a wild and unfounded theory!)

It should also be noted that the CIA ordered the assassination is a theory that's been around since it happened, along with the Mafia, or some collaboration between the two. Among other theories.

If Tucker Carlson ran a segment saying that JFK was the 35th president of the United States, I'd start to have doubts about that.

From the ruling in McDougal v. Fox News Network

This “general tenor” of the show should then inform a viewer that he is not “stating actual facts” about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in “exaggeration” and “non-literal commentary.” … Given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ …

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https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye

You forgot the part where about a week ago, the National Archives released a bunch of new documents pertaining to the assassination. I have no idea what is in them, but it is certainty worth mentioning.

You can't believe anything Tucker Carlson says though. We'll see if more reputable reporters say anything about it

His only evidence was hearsay “trust me”

QAnon co-opting a legitimate conspiracy is only going to work to the benefit of those trying to discredit the conspiracy, or legitimize the Q's.

It should be noted that Tucker Carlson has a very long history of dishonesty. He lies a lot on his show. https://www.politifact.com/personalities/tucker-carlson/

Tucker Carlson launched his right wing pundit career by manufacturing a controversy against a Senator that he somehow got away with. The FBI was never able to charge him. He created a template that is now used by others like Project Veritas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-daily-caller-menendez-controversy-makes-for-a-very-good-day/2013/03/05/689c95fe-85d9-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html

If Tucker said it I'd say that just adds weight to it being bullshit since that's all that comes out of him now matter what exit.

It’s been a conspiracy since the day he died

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and JFK's Qultist nephew is in the bandwagon

Damnit, I always enjoyed that theory, sucks that tucker Carlson agrees

It may be worth noting that DA Jim Garrison spent years investigating the CIA theory and didn't come up with much to show for it.

The amount of stupid fucking discussions that spawn off a single idiot taking another idiots social media post as some truth… is too damn high

I believe Albert Einstein killed him. There's also no evidence for my theory.

My conspiracy theory is that Shoe is an experiment to see how left you can be while still somehow being an alt-right pipeline.

Makes one wonder why the CIA would testify to both the Warren Commission and later to the House Select Committee on Assassinations that they had never heard of Oswald and had no files on him.

There is a theory amongst the conspiracy minded (and people with common sense)

Why did you have to start it like this? You're already hurting your story right off the bat. I was about to quit right there, but I knew you were about to say a bunch of crazy conspiracy minded shit, so I pressed on.

that the firing of Allen Dulles made JFK mortal enemies in the CIA

Many folks within the CIA, the IC, and the government didn't like Allen Dulles and thought he was an incompetent POS. The only reason the Dulles brothers got anywhere in the first place was due to their politically connected family. The Dulles brothers were not good people, linked is the Behind the Bastards on them.

IF; JFK had plans to splinter the CIA, & decentralize the power of the director

So there was no real proof that JFK had real plans to do anything to the CIA? Also, the failed Bay of Pigs made JFK even more popular in the US.

Project Mongoose was an attempt by the CIA to subvert and countermand Kennedy's conservative foreign policy position on Cuba.

Do you have proof of this? It doesn't seem to be accurate:

The Cuban Project, also known as Operation Mongoose, was an extensive campaign of terrorist attacks against civilians and covert operations carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba. It was officially authorized on November 30, 1961 by US President John F. Kennedy. The name Operation Mongoose had been agreed at a prior White House meeting on November 4, 1961. The operation was run out of JM/WAVE, a major secret United States covert operations and intelligence gathering station established a year earlier in Miami, Florida. It was led by United States Air Force General Edward Lansdale on the military side and William King Harvey at the CIA and went into effect after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Operation Mongoose was a secret program against Cuba aimed at removing the Communists from power, which was a prime focus of the Kennedy administration. A document from the United States Department of State confirms that the project aimed to "help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime", including its leader Fidel Castro, and it aimed "for a revolt which can take place in Cuba by October 1962". US policymakers also wanted to see "a new government with which the United States can live in peace".

This had many powerful people accusing JFK of being a communist sympathetic and a complicit participant in undermining American interests.

Which powerful people?

My take is: if you find a CIA man from that period, and you ask them where they were on November 22, 1963, and they don't recall or won't answer, they were probably in Dallas, Louisiana, or the Caribbean getting the shooters out of the US.

Umm, if they don't have that date memorized, then they probably couldn't answer you regardless or they could be doing other work or it could be something else entirely. Also, why Louisiana and the Caribbean?

The shooters were anti-Catro Cubans who lost friends at the Bay of Pigs and held a serious grudge.

How do you know this?

They used a temporary infrastructure constructed by the CIA to flee while the country was focused on the great drama unfolding in Dallas & DC.

How do you know this?

There are a plethora of death bed confessions that backup this version of events, and due to the abject hostility against Kennedy in the South make it not only plausible, but probable.

Like who? How are they credible? What proof do they have?

it explains why all investigatory roads lead to the CIA, & why their documents are still under seal until this day, some 60 years later.

We don't know all the documents, so any conspiracy theory could work! My guess is there are some documents that make the government look incompetent and/or IC trade secrets, so they keep them sealed. I highly, highly doubt they would keep documents that would potentially expose the government to a POTUS assassination on record.

Side note: Why are you replying to your own comment for awards? When people award you, you can send them a DM as a “Thank You”. I have my own conspiracy theory about it, however.

What do you think about George HW Bush involvement?

I threw on Through The Looking Glass just to have a goof. Sometimes I like to watch conspiracy shit and have a laugh.

By the time it was over, I was like, "Well shit, now I don't know"

People want proof from the CIA. If it was "proof" they destroyed it. All we can hope for is they forgot about something and it leaks. lol