美国国家公共电台 NPR Most Of The New JFK Files Have Been Seen Before In Some Form

 

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:

The National Archives had a deadline yesterday. It was supposed to release all the remaining records from the assassination¹ of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. And it did post thousands of files online last night. People have been reading them for interesting tidbits of history. So far, though, they haven't found any big revelations about the murder. And now many historians are focused on the files the archives did not release. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE²: Among the documents is a memo³ from then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover two days after the assassination. Hoover was concerned, he wrote, about how to convince the public that Lee Harvey Oswald was the, quote, "real assassin" of Kennedy after Oswald himself was shot and killed by Jack⁴ Ruby⁵. There's the record of an anonymous⁶ someone who called a Cambridge, England, news service, urging a reporter to call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up 25 minutes prior to Kennedy's assassination. Still, writer Philip Shenon says there were no bombshells for a good reason.

PHILIP SHENON: You have to keep in mind that the documents released on Thursday are mostly documents we've seen before.

NAYLOR: The National Archives put 2,891 records on its website yesterday pertaining⁷ to the assassination, but the Archives tells NPR just 53 of those are available for the first time. All the others had been previously⁸ released in a redacted format⁹. Jefferson Morley, who edits the JFK Facts blog, calls it a small slice of what might have been released.

JEFFERSON MORLEY: President Trump¹⁰ really withheld¹¹ most of the records yesterday. He released about 2,800 records. There's probably 25,000 records that remain secret.

NAYLOR: In announcing the release, the White House said it was withholding¹² those documents that might harm national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs. Agencies have been ordered to review them with an eye on releasing as many as possible in six months. Still, Shenon says yesterday's release was important.

SHENON: It's useful in reminding the public that there really was a rush to judgment¹³ by the federal government after the assassination to identify Oswald as this pure lone¹⁴ wolf who never could have been stopped when in fact there seems to be a lot of evidence to show that both the CIA and the FBI knew about Oswald, were following Oswald and may have known much more about the threat he posed than they ever wanted to admit.

NAYLOR: One interesting document released yesterday, Morley says, was an interview of former CIA Director Richard Helms by David Belin, who was head of a commission investigating the CIA in the mid-'70s.

MORLEY: Belin asked Helms, was Lee Harvey Oswald an agent of the CIA, question mark. And that's the end of the document. We never get the answer. The fact that we didn't even get the answer to the question is just very emblematic¹⁵ of how limited the full disclosure was yesterday.

NAYLOR: President Trump tweeted today that in the end, there will be great transparency. And it is his hope to get just about everything to the public. Brian Naylor, NPR News, Washington.

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1 assassination   

n.暗杀；暗杀事件

参考例句：

• The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
• Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 memo   

n.照会，备忘录；便笺；通知书；规章

参考例句：

• Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗？
• Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗？

4 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

5 ruby   

n.红宝石，红宝石色

参考例句：

• She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
• On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。

6 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

7 pertaining   

与…有关系的，附属…的，为…固有的(to)

参考例句：

• Living conditions are vastly different from those pertaining in their country of origin. 生活条件与他们祖国大不相同。
• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school. 视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。

8 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

9 format   

n.设计，版式；[计算机]格式，DOS命令:格式化(磁盘)，用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据；v.使格式化，设计，安排

参考例句：

• Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
• The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。

10 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

11 withheld   

withhold过去式及过去分词

参考例句：

• I withheld payment until they had fulfilled the contract. 他们履行合同后，我才付款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• There was no school play because the principal withheld his consent. 由于校长没同意，学校里没有举行比赛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 withholding   

扣缴税款

参考例句：

• She was accused of withholding information from the police. 她被指控对警方知情不报。
• The judge suspected the witness was withholding information. 法官怀疑见证人在隐瞒情况。

13 judgment   

n.审判；判断力，识别力，看法，意见

参考例句：

• The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
• He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。

14 lone   

adj.孤寂的，单独的；唯一的

参考例句：

• A lone sea gull flew across the sky.一只孤独的海鸥在空中飞过。
• She could see a lone figure on the deserted beach.她在空旷的海滩上能看到一个孤独的身影。

15 emblematic   

adj.象征的，可当标志的；象征性

参考例句：

• The violence is emblematic of what is happening in our inner cities. 这种暴力行为正标示了我们市中心贫民区的状况。
• Whiteness is emblematic of purity. 白色是纯洁的象征。 来自辞典例句