The JFK Records Act enabled the disclosure of previously hidden documents.
Evidence
The only reason we can read these words now is because of Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie, JFK, about the Kennedy assassination. … Stone’s movie got Washington’s attention, and made possible the passage of the JFK Records Act, which gave rise to a group called the Assassination Records Review Board. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 105
Categorization
- XREF: This connects to ongoing issues of government transparency and historical records. — connects to: Proposed amendments to FOIA could improve public access to information.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 105