# JFK death notes to not be relased until 2043 or so? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 18, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-death-notes-to-not-be-relased-until-2043-or-so/155837 "2003-02-18T07:40:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-death-notes-to-not-be-relased-until-2043-or-so/155837/1 "2003-02-18T07:40:06Z")
Why? ---
**Author:** ![zigaretten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/91b2a8/32.png) [@zigaretten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zigaretten)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-death-notes-to-not-be-relased-until-2043-or-so/155837/2 "2003-02-18T07:51:16Z")
OK, I’ll bite…what JFK death notes? ---
**Author:** ![Convict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Convict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Convict)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-death-notes-to-not-be-relased-until-2043-or-so/155837/3 "2003-02-18T08:17:22Z")
IIRC, the powers that be picked that date because they figured all of JFK’s direct descendants would be dead by then. For some reason they didn’t want the notes released while any of them were alive. Unfortunately I don’t have a cite for this and am too lazy to do a search on it. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-death-notes-to-not-be-relased-until-2043-or-so/155837/4 "2003-02-18T09:21:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zigaretten \* > \*\*OK, I’ll bite…what JFK death notes? \*\* What really happend. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-death-notes-to-not-be-relased-until-2043-or-so/155837/5 "2003-02-18T11:59:16Z")
Ah… conspiracy theories. What evidence can you provide that death notes exist at all? ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-death-notes-to-not-be-relased-until-2043-or-so/155837/6 "2003-02-18T12:12:15Z")
This is what the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board said in 1998. > [@](#): > > **The Review Board queried several government entities about possible files related to the autopsy, including the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the Naval Photographic Center, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (for Church Committee Records), and the President John F. Kennedy Library. The Review Board also attempted to contact all former staff members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. With the exception of the autopsy photographs and x-rays, which are exempt from public disclosure under the JFK Act, the Review Board arranged for the release of all governmental records related to the autopsy. There are no other restricted records related to the autopsy of which the Review Board is aware.** [http://www.archives.gov/research\_room/jfk/assassination\_records\_review\_board/arrb\_report.html](http://www.archives.gov/research_room/jfk/assassination_records_review_board/arrb_report.html) (The passage quoted comes from Chapter 6.) Moreover, copies of the photographs have been released - it’s just the originals that remain closed - and are available, along with much of the rest of this material, here. [http://history-matters.com/store/store\_hm\_jfkmea1.htm](http://history-matters.com/store/store_hm_jfkmea1.htm) So, if you think the ‘death notes’ are going to tell you what really happened, no one is stopping you looking at them. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-death-notes-to-not-be-relased-until-2043-or-so/155837/7 "2003-02-18T13:11:54Z")
Well Aslan2, it looks like your bonfire has been thoroughly pissed upon. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jfk-death-notes-to-not-be-relased-until-2043-or-so/155837/8 "2003-02-18T14:05:36Z")
I was under the impression that the third shot–the one that basically caused the right side of his head to explode–was fatal. Would the “notes” have added anything to that?