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The JFK Files: Calling On Citizen Reporters

President John F. Kennedy, riding with First Lady Jacqueline, Texas Gov. John Connally and his wife Nellie, was shot shortly after this photo was taken.
President John F. Kennedy, riding with First Lady Jacqueline, Texas Gov. John Connally and his wife Nellie, was shot shortly after this photo was taken. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images

The government released long-secret files on John F. Kennedy's assassination, and we want your help.

The files would be the last to be released by the National Archives under a 1992 law that ordered the government to make all remaining documents pertaining to the assassination public. There has long been a trove of conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's murder in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, including doubts about whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, as the Warren Commission determined in its report the following year.

Here's where you come in. Read the documents linked here. If you find news or noteworthy nuggets among the pages, share them with us on the document below. If we use what you find, we'll be sure to give you a shoutout!

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