FEDS BURY JACKIE’S JFK MURDER TAPES!
ASECRET trove of audiotapes containing widow Jackie Kennedy’s explosive revelations about John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas is still being kept hidden under lock and key by the government 58 years after the tragedy.
While Congress ordered the National Archives to make all JFK assassination material public by 2017, then-President Donald Trump delayed the release, and his successor, Joe Biden, who declassified 1,500 documents on Dec. 17, is withholding the rest for another year.
However, the bombshell audiotapes are part of a secret donation to the National Archives made under a special proviso they remain covered up until
2067.
Kennedy assassination researchers insist the six bombshell tapes are the KEY to unraveling the mysteries behind JFK’s death — and experts believe Biden could release them by exercising his presidential powers! But that’s not likely to happen — the tapes are too explosive, according to investigators.
Sources say the tapes contain interviews with Jackie and her brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy, who insist a homegrown cabal plotted and carried out the assassination on Nov. 22, 1963.
“We know from leaked snippets Jackie blames JFK’s murder on a conspiracy by his domestic enemies,” reveals Larry Schnapf, a New York City attorney and Kennedy “The snippets come from people who have either heard the tapes or are familiar with her thinking at the time.”
The tapes date back to the earliest days after the assassination, when newly widowed Jackie, flooded with interview requests, decided to commission an officially authorized version of her husband’s death.
In early 1964, she hired obscure historian and exMarine William Manchester, who had previously befriended JFK while writing an “adoring” 1962 profile for Holiday magazine.
That May, Jackie sat for ten hours of taped interviews with Manchester at her temporary home in Georgetown, where they smoked cigarettes and drank daiquiris.
In the following months,
Manchester conducted two separate taped sessions with RFK at his apartment in United Nations Plaza in New York City.
He finished the book, eventually titled The Death of a President, in late 1965 while hospitalized in Connecticut with nervous exhaustion.
The manuscript was a smash hit with his publisher Harper & Row, which sold serial rights to Look magazine for a then-record $665,000, or about $5 million today.
But Jackie, who had since cooled on the idea of a JFK book, was aghast at both the exorbitant sum and the potential for her most personal recollections to be splashed over a magazine.
She demanded edits, retractions and, ultimately, sued to prevent both Harper & Row and Look from publishing.
As part of an out-of-court 1967 settlement, Manchester agreed to remove seven pages and 1,600 words from his book, which became a runaway best-seller.
The National Archives told GLOBE he later donated the tapes of his interviews with Jackie and RFK — stipulating they be kept secret until 2067.
So far, the National Archives has declassified thousands of assassination documents and only about 10,000 remain shielded from public view — including transcripts of Jackie’s tapes.
Schnapf believes Manchester’s tapes contain Jackie’s opinions about who was to blame for JFK’s death as well as other explosive eyewitness details about the killing.
“Presumably, the most important aspects of the taped interviews were not included in the manuscript at the direction of the Kennedy family,” he says. “It’s a shame. But we’ll have to wait another 45 years to find out.”