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   WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., says her congressional   
   task force on declassifying government secrets hopes to interview doctors   
   who were at the Dallas hospital where President John F. Kennedy was taken   
   after being fatally shot.   
      
   “We actually made contact with one of the doctors, who’s in his 90s,” Luna   
   said.   
      
   Luna said earlier this week that the task force’s first scheduled hearing   
   on March 26 would examine the Kennedy shooting and would include a visit   
   to Dallas to interview witnesses, talk to experts and visit the   
   assassination site.   
      
   In an interview, Luna described the Dallas travel plans as tentative but   
   said she’s hoping the trip could happen before the hearing is held in   
   Washington.   
      
   President Donald Trump signed a Jan. 23 executive order instructing the   
   director of national intelligence and attorney general to present a plan   
   for the “full and complete release” of records relating to Kennedy’s   
   assassination.   
      
   The FBI has said it discovered thousands of new records related to the   
   assassination as it worked to comply with Trump’s order. The agency said   
   it was working to transfer the records to the National Archives and   
   Records Administration.   
      
   U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee,   
   recently announced the creation of the Task Force on the Declassification   
   of Federal Secrets, which will consider the JFK files but also other   
   topics such as the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.   
      
   Luna was tapped to lead the task force, which she said will be bipartisan.   
   Democrats have not announced who will serve on the panel.   
      
   Luna said she was expecting a briefing at the White House later this week   
   on where things stand in releasing the documents. She met Tuesday with the   
   National Archives.   
      
   “I’ve been told that they are going to digitize everything and that it   
   will be available. As soon as we get it, the American people will have it,   
   and it’s going to be available on the National Archives website,” Luna   
   said.   
      
   The assassination has spawned many alternate theories questioning the   
   Warren Commission, which was established by then-President Lyndon B.   
   Johnson to investigate the assassination. The commission concluded Oswald   
   acted alone and there was no evidence of a conspiracy.   
      
   Luna said it’s important to release remaining documents in the name of   
   public transparency, even if they do not contain bombshell revelations.   
      
   “I’m hearing from a lot of people that the information that is there   
   that’s still classified is not a smoking gun per se,” Luna said.   
      
   She said one of the country’s biggest problems is a lack of transparency   
   and trust in government.   
      
   “The American people deserve this information, and so we are here to   
   ensure that we are executing President Trump’s executive order,” Luna   
   said.   
      
   Critics have questioned the task force’s investigative work on the JFK   
   assassination.   
      
   U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, a member of the Oversight Committee,   
   said Luna should first figure out how many witnesses are still alive after   
   so many years.   
      
   “Because she may be going on a futile mission,” Crockett said.   
      
   Crockett also called for files related to the assassination of Malcom X to   
   be released.   
      
   Gerald Posner is the author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the   
   Assassination of JFK, which concludes Oswald acted alone. He questioned   
   what the task force would gain by traveling to Dallas and called for   
   releasing all the JFK files.   
      
   “There are no better and pressing issues for @RepLuna and her committee   
   than to reexamine the JFK assassination? Visiting the site and ‘speaking   
   with first-hand witnesses’ after 62 years?” he said on X.   
      
   In response to questions about the task force’s plans, Posner said he   
   interviewed all of the key Parkland Memorial Hospital doctors in 1992 for   
   his book, published the following year.   
      
   “The accounts of doctors who changed their stories subsequently or came in   
   later claiming they were important parts of the emergency team that   
   treated the president, are proven false by my ‘92 interviews,” he said.   
   “No one from the subcommittee has reached out for any documentation from   
   me.”   
      
   He said there’s a question of whether Luna is leading an open-ended   
   inquiry that will follow the evidence.   
      
   “I’ll give Rep Luna and her oversight committee the benefit of the doubt,   
   but I am skeptical that a new investigation is going to upend what was   
   done by the Warren Commission” or the House Select Committee on   
   Assassinations, Posner said.   
      
   https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/02/27/task-force-on-   
   government-secrets-hopes-to-interview-doctors-who-treated-jfk-in-dallas/   
      
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