Below you will find two embedded frames, the first displays the text of Jim Garrison's final chapter of On the Trail of the Assassins, and the second contains the NARA page on the Warren Commission Records.
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David Shenk, author of Data Smog illustrates the "dizzying information glut of the late 20th century." Shenk demonstrates how "information has never been as easy to access-or as districting" and it is this state of analysis that is of interest regarding the knowledge and wilful unknowing of information in the JFK assassination.
This phenomenon is exemplified by Garrison's text, which details his struggle to find information at the time of the assassination and at the time of the trial of Clay Shaw (1969). Garrison encounters an influx of information beyond the term of the trial, in part as a result of the Freedom of Information Act in the 1970s.
The dilemma of research in the JFK assassination is predicated upon the initial lack of information followed by a data glut incurred by the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act (1992).
Garrison, who can be considered overwhelmed at the time of his publication (1988) would have succumbed to "paralysis of analysis" had he lived to see the information overload the Collection Act brought.
The idea to consider is that data smog, this new information glut regarding the JFK assassination, does not constitute knowledge but is instead a new form of censorship. Where there was a lack there is an overload achieving the same goal of unknowing. This unknowing continues as one will never know all the data, originally data was inaccessible due to enforced restrictions now it is inaccessible due to its sheer volume. Ultimately, the public may feel they have access to the knowledge (or that highly subjective ideal, truth) as they succumb to exhaustion but not satisfaction. Information fatigue syndrome is the equivalent of blacked out documents from the past, you have the document but you cannot retrieve all the information.