Had to choose between digging into JFK files or staying out of it back in 2017

When the last batch of JFK documents dropped in 2017 I had a choice. Spend a weekend digging through those redacted files online or just let it go and trust the official story. I dove in. Spent like 10 hours across 3 days on that Archive.gov site. Honestly? Came away more confused than when I started. Too many blacked out names and cross references to things I couldn't verify. Anyone else actually go through those files and come out with a solid take?

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thomas29117d agoMost Upvoted

Honestly I'm starting to think we put way too much energy into this. Like yeah the JFK thing is interesting and all but at the end of the day it was 60 years ago. I get that people love a mystery but half those files are just bureaucratic junk that got classified because some intern in the 60s didn't want to deal with paperwork. We act like finding the truth about Oswald is gonna change anything about our lives today. It's a fun rabbit hole for a Saturday afternoon but not something worth losing sleep over lol.

victor21917d ago

Oh man, don't even get me started on those files. I spent a whole Sunday hunched over my laptop squinting at redacted PDFs and my eyes were killing me. By the end I was just scrolling through pages of "withheld in full" thinking, well that was a huge waste of a day. I probably learned more about the Archive.gov website's terrible search function than I did about Oswald. At this point I'm half convinced the whole thing is just a government prank to mess with conspiracy nerds on their days off.