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WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., says her congressional
task force on declassifying government secrets hopes to interview doctors
who were at the Dallas hospital where President John F. Kennedy was taken
after being fatally shot.

“We actually made contact with one of the doctors, who’s in his 90s,” Luna said.

Luna said earlier this week that the task force’s first scheduled hearing
on March 26 would examine the Kennedy shooting and would include a visit
to Dallas to interview witnesses, talk to experts and visit the
assassination site.

In an interview, Luna described the Dallas travel plans as tentative but
said she’s hoping the trip could happen before the hearing is held in Washington.

President Donald Trump signed a Jan. 23 executive order instructing the director of national intelligence and attorney general to present a plan
for the “full and complete release” of records relating to Kennedy’s assassination.

The FBI has said it discovered thousands of new records related to the assassination as it worked to comply with Trump’s order. The agency said
it was working to transfer the records to the National Archives and
Records Administration.

U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, recently announced the creation of the Task Force on the Declassification
of Federal Secrets, which will consider the JFK files but also other
topics such as the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Luna was tapped to lead the task force, which she said will be bipartisan. Democrats have not announced who will serve on the panel.

Luna said she was expecting a briefing at the White House later this week
on where things stand in releasing the documents. She met Tuesday with the National Archives.

“I’ve been told that they are going to digitize everything and that it
will be available. As soon as we get it, the American people will have it,
and it’s going to be available on the National Archives website,” Luna
said.

The assassination has spawned many alternate theories questioning the
Warren Commission, which was established by then-President Lyndon B.
Johnson to investigate the assassination. The commission concluded Oswald
acted alone and there was no evidence of a conspiracy.

Luna said it’s important to release remaining documents in the name of
public transparency, even if they do not contain bombshell revelations.

“I’m hearing from a lot of people that the information that is there
that’s still classified is not a smoking gun per se,” Luna said.

She said one of the country’s biggest problems is a lack of transparency
and trust in government.

“The American people deserve this information, and so we are here to
ensure that we are executing President Trump’s executive order,” Luna
said.

Critics have questioned the task force’s investigative work on the JFK assassination.

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, a member of the Oversight Committee,
said Luna should first figure out how many witnesses are still alive after
so many years.

“Because she may be going on a futile mission,” Crockett said.

Crockett also called for files related to the assassination of Malcom X to
be released.

Gerald Posner is the author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, which concludes Oswald acted alone. He questioned
what the task force would gain by traveling to Dallas and called for
releasing all the JFK files.

“There are no better and pressing issues for @RepLuna and her committee
than to reexamine the JFK assassination? Visiting the site and ‘speaking
with first-hand witnesses’ after 62 years?” he said on X.

In response to questions about the task force’s plans, Posner said he interviewed all of the key Parkland Memorial Hospital doctors in 1992 for
his book, published the following year.

“The accounts of doctors who changed their stories subsequently or came in later claiming they were important parts of the emergency team that
treated the president, are proven false by my ‘92 interviews,” he said.
“No one from the subcommittee has reached out for any documentation from
me.”

He said there’s a question of whether Luna is leading an open-ended
inquiry that will follow the evidence.

“I’ll give Rep Luna and her oversight committee the benefit of the doubt,
but I am skeptical that a new investigation is going to upend what was
done by the Warren Commission” or the House Select Committee on
Assassinations, Posner said.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/02/27/task-force-on- government-secrets-hopes-to-interview-doctors-who-treated-jfk-in-dallas/

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