Reality with Bruce de Torres 61 James DiEugenio: JFK Truth Strikes at the Heart of the Deep State

James DiEugenio is one of the most respected researchers and writers on the political assassinations of the 1960s. He has written or co-edited many books, including JFK REVISITED, the companion piece to Oliver Stone’s documentaries, JFK REVISITED: Through the Looking Glass and JFK: Destiny Betrayed, for which Jim wrote both screenplays.

His latest book, with four co-authors, is THE JFK ASSASSINATION CHOKEHOLDS That Inescapably Prove There was a Conspiracy.

On April 1, 2025, he testified about the JFK assassination to Congress (with Oliver Stone and writer Jefferson Morley).

Jim is the editor and publisher of KennedysandKing.com, which seeks to present “the best research concerning the political assassinations of the 1960s and their historical context.” And he posts at jamesanthonydieugenio.substack.com, where you will find the first three parts of a series on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, to be followed by articles about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

Summary of our conversation

The April 1st JFK hearing had a pretty big impact, with 1.7 million views on the Forbes YouTube channel alone. Added to other channels, it’s going on 6 million views. And he and Stone appeared on NewsNation twice and Fox News twice, with many more millions getting this information perhaps for the first time.

The hearings follow Donald Trump’s order to declassify documents on the JFK, RFK, and MLK cases. The struggle for the files goes on. The intelligence agencies have had their way for a long time due to a compliant Congress and lack of chutzpah by the executive branch. They are used to being able to keep their secrets. And the courts have been just as compliant.

The Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) between 1994 and 1998 declassified something like 2 million pages of documents. This was created by Congress as a reaction to Oliver Stone’s 1991 film, JFK.

Just posted (May16, 2025) at KennedysandKing.com is Andrew Iler’s article, Why Are We Still Declassifying JFK Records? Critical ARRB Final Determinations Buried and Ignored. “The declassification process should have been concluded years ago. The Luna Committee should call John Tunheim and David Marwell to testify about its Final Determinations immediately.” The ARRB had “unprecedented authority to issue binding determinations to release or postpone release of assassination records. … This lengthy article will hopefully act as a primer for those wanting to understand better how it is that the American public has continued to be denied transparency and the full truth in respect to government-held records regarding one of the most consequential and traumatic events in the history of the nation.”

Jim DiEugenio: “Every single document that was not [reviewed and released by the ARRB] by 1998 should have been declassified in 2017. So, all this stuff we’ve been going through for the last eight years has been Sturm and Drang [storm and stress]. Everything should have been done back then. If anything shows you that the Kennedy assassination strikes at the heart of the deep state, it’s that. The Kennedy assassination lives in a kind of netherworld, a Bermuda triangle where the laws and the strictures of Congress, of the presidency – none of this matters. If anything shows you how important that event was, it’s stuff like this.”

Another Congressional hearing was upcoming on May 20. “They’re trying to get Sandy Styles.” (She did not appear. She was on the stairs inside the Texas School Book Depository when Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly descended after supposedly shooting Kennedy. She did not see or hear him or anyone else on the rickety, wooden stairs at that time, neither did her co-worker Victoria Adams, who was with her.)