Release the JFK Files

President Biden must end the CIA and FBI's nearly 60 years of secrecy

Joe Biden was a twenty-one-year-old political science major when JFK was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

“It was a Friday afternoon; I remember it vividly,” Biden recalled in 2013. “I was on the steps of Hullihen Hall on the mall at the University of Delaware. It was a warm day; we had just come out of class. As we were walking through the hallways, we heard that the president had been shot. I had a car on campus—I wasn't supposed to, but I had a car on campus—and three of us we went to my car, got in the car, and turned on the radio. It was disbelief. I remember it was almost like a frozen frame in time. Instead of everybody on campus running and saying, ‘Did you hear?’—there were these quiet groups of people saying, ‘Can that be true?’ You'd see five students in a corner. It was almost like if you said it out loud, he was going to die. Half an hour later, or almost an hour later, whatever it was, it was, ‘He's dead,’ and ‘How can that be? How is that possible in the United States of …