Anna Paulina Luna: The truth is still out there on JFK assassination
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) is still searching for a cover-up in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy Jr. — asserting without evidence that an allegedly previously unreleased video could reveal new details of the president's death, despite the recent declassification of reams of government files on the killing.
In an interview with Fox News on Friday, Luna said that she had just been told that NBC has a 'never been seen before' video of the shooting that she would be requesting access to. The video, according to Luna, 'allegedly' shows famed gunman Lee Harvey Oswald near Kennedy's vehicle when the assassination happened.
Would that be the case, 'he couldn't have been the shooter,' Luna told Fox host Jesse Watters.
Luna has been elevated by House Republicans to lead the House Oversight Committee's 'Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets,' and said she would be asking NBC to turn over this alleged video.
While the conspiracies behind the Kennedy assassination have been spun for decades, they've recently grown in strength as the Trump administration pledged complete transparency into multiple investigations that have captured the public fascination — from the Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations, to the death of financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, has captivated Americans for decades, despite repeated investigations concluding that Oswald was in fact Kennedy's assassin and that there wasn't clear evidence of a grander conspiracy.
Americans have consistently believed otherwise, with a majority of Americans for decades saying in Gallup polls that the killing of the president was not the work of one individual. In 2023, 65 percent of those surveyed told Gallup they believed others were involved, while just 29 percent said it was one man.
Luna claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency 'never bought' the one gunman theory. Luna added that Oliver Stone — who made the 1991 movie "JFK" that reignited interest in the assassination — purportedly saw a secondhand copy of the alleged video.
'I think the American people had an inclination as to what we were saying, but we never had the hard evidence until now,' Luna told Watters, adding recent declassification efforts are "going to be generational changing."
NBC did not respond to request for comment.
Upon entering office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the release of the assassination investigation records to the public. Since then, hundreds of pages from the Epstein investigation were released.
Luna's task force is set to convene a hearing on the JFK files on April 1, and she has promised to travel to Dallas and interview 'first-hand witnesses' from the six-decades-old assassination.
She also shared her disappointment over the Epstein files, which she repeatedly campaigned for the government to release, but has pushed full steam ahead on other investigations.
Earlier this month, thousands of pages of the Kennedy investigation were released on the National Archives website, in what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called a push for 'maximum transparency and a commitment to rebuild the trust of the American people in the Intelligence Community (IC) and federal agencies.'
'I applaud President Trump for following through on his promise of transparency to the American people,' Luna said in a release celebrating the publication of the records. 'By investigating the newly released JFK files, consulting experts, and tracking down surviving staff of various investigative committees, my task force will get to the bottom of this mystery and share our findings with the American people.'
Multiple experts have said they do not expect any new major revelations from the release of the JFK files. Luna said Friday she plans to introduce Congressional legislation to ensure that this 'never happens again.'
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