The Social Security numbers and other private information of more than 400 former congressional staffers and others were made public Tuesday in the unredacted files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, according to a review by The Washington Post.
More than 60,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination were released this week by the Trump administration. Many of the pages had been previously disclosed, but with redactions. Many, but not all, redactions have been removed. The records have been posted to the National Archives webpage under the headline “JFK Assassination Records — 2025 Documents Release.”
After The Post reported the inadvertent disclosure Wednesday, The White House rushed to mitigate the impact. The National Archives started screening the documents for Social Security numbers so that the Social Security Administration could identify living individuals and issue them new numbers, a White House official said. In the meantime, the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the plan, said those affected will receive free credit monitoring.
More than 60,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination were released this week by the Trump administration. Many of the pages had been previously disclosed, but with redactions. Many, but not all, redactions have been removed. The records have been posted to the National Archives webpage under the headline “JFK Assassination Records — 2025 Documents Release.”
After The Post reported the inadvertent disclosure Wednesday, The White House rushed to mitigate the impact. The National Archives started screening the documents for Social Security numbers so that the Social Security Administration could identify living individuals and issue them new numbers, a White House official said. In the meantime, the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the plan, said those affected will receive free credit monitoring.
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00:00We've released the JFK files. What does this mean?
00:0260,000 pages related to JFK's assassination are now public.
00:05And a lot of redactions have been removed, so what's in them?
00:07The Post is still reviewing them, but so far nothing has challenged the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman in Kennedy's assassination.
00:13Yeah, I think that's all of them. Okay, see you in a sec.
00:15Anything else?
00:16Uh, it looks like a lot of social security numbers and private information of people who worked on the Kennedy assassination investigation.
00:21Is that big news?
00:22Well, a lot of those people are still alive, so...
00:24It's absolutely a Privacy Act violation.
00:26These individuals can be doxed now, including myself.
00:28It's like a first grade elementary level rule of security to redact things like that.
00:32Wait, so did you read all 60,000 pages?
00:34Not yet. We're only 190.
00:35And so far, all these Post reporters have contributed to reading them.
00:38Whoa.
00:39That's the work it takes, especially when an administration says something like...