Social Security numbers of living people included in unredacted JFK assassination documents

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 20, 2025 4:27 PM EDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago

Sensitive idiosyncratic information, including Social Security numbers, was unveiled successful the recently unredacted John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week, and that is not sitting good with the radical affected.

Joseph diGenova, a erstwhile run lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, was among those whose idiosyncratic accusation was disclosed. He said helium is readying to writer the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration for violating privateness laws and is acrophobic astir individuality theft.

"It should not person happened," diGenova said successful a telephone interrogation connected Thursday. "I deliberation it's the effect of incompetent radical doing the reviewing. I don't judge it had thing to bash with rushing the process. The radical who reviewed these documents did not bash their job."

His idiosyncratic accusation was in documents relating to his enactment for a U.S. Senate prime committee that investigated abuses of powerfulness by authorities officials successful the 1970s, including the surveillance of U.S. citizens.

Officials astatine the White House said Thursday that a program was successful spot to assistance those whose idiosyncratic accusation was disclosed, including recognition monitoring offered by the National Archives and a screening of the records that began Wednesday to place each of the Social Security numbers that were released. Officials besides said caller Social Security numbers volition beryllium issued to those affected.

The White House did not respond to questions astir wherefore the idiosyncratic accusation was unredacted.

"President Trump delivered connected his committedness of maximum transparency by afloat releasing the files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a statement. "At the petition of the White House, the National Archives and the Social Security Administration instantly enactment unneurotic an enactment program to proactively assistance individuals whose idiosyncratic accusation was released successful the files."

The National Archives did not instantly respond to an email seeking comment.

Vast bulk of records had already been released 

Trump ordered the merchandise of the remaining classified files relating to the 1963 assassination of the erstwhile president soon aft being sworn into bureau successful January. About 2,200 files consisting of implicit 63,000 pages were posted connected the National Archive's website connected Tuesday evening. Many of those pages revealed what had antecedently been redacted.

The immense bulk of the National Archives' much than six million pages of records, photographs, question pictures, dependable recordings and artifacts related to the assassination had antecedently been released.

The National Archives posted assessments of the recently released documents connected its website but noted that determination wasn't capable clip arsenic of Wednesday to reappraisal much than a tiny fraction of them.

The documents released this week provided much details of Cold War-era covert U.S. operations successful different countries, but they didn't initially lend credence to conspiracy theories astir who killed Kennedy.

One of the recently unredacted documents, for example, discloses the Social Security numbers of much than 2 twelve radical seeking information clearances successful the 1990s to reappraisal JFK-related documents for the Assassination Records Review Board.

The National Archives began screening the documents connected Wednesday to place each of the Social Security numbers successful the assassination records, the White House said.

The National Archives volition stock those numbers with the Social Security Administration, which volition place the radical who are surviving and contented them caller numbers, according to the White House. The National Archive volition besides connection creditor-monitoring services for affected radical until they person their caller Social Security numbers, officials said.

Kennedy was killed connected a sojourn to Dallas, erstwhile his motorcade was finishing its parade way downtown and shots rang retired from the Texas School Book Depository gathering connected Nov. 22, 1963. Police arrested 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, a erstwhile Marine who had positioned himself from a sniper's perch connected the sixth floor. Two days later, Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner, fatally changeable Oswald during a jailhouse transportation broadcast unrecorded connected television.