The public role of government in relation to the JFK assassination plays an integral role in determining to what degree knowledge was accessible and contrarily actively ignored. The notion that the act of assassination within this context of government is public is epitomised by the release of government documents (previously inaccessible in theory or in practice) under The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act.

The role politics played in the JFK assassination is contentious and depends upon the agenda of whomever is considering the issue. Consider Peter Dale Scott's definition of deep political analysis: "looking beneath public formulations of policy issues to the bureaucratic, economic, and ultimately covert and criminal activities which underlie them" in respect to the role politics played in knowledge and the wilful unknowing of information regarding the JFK assassination.

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