Editing JFK (film) (section)

== Legislative impact ==
{{Main|Assassination Records Review Board}}
The final report of the [[Assassination Records Review Board]] (ARRB) partially credited concern over the conclusions in ''JFK'' with the passage of the [[President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992]], also known as the JFK Act.<ref name="ARRB-ES">{{cite book |author=Assassination Records Review Board |author-link1=Assassination Records Review Board |title=Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board |ref={{SfnRef|Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board |1998}} |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/review-board/report/arrb-final-report.pdf |access-date=June 10, 2015 |date=September 30, 1998 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |page=xxiii |chapter=Executive Summary |archive-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511003730/https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/review-board/report/arrb-final-report.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

The ARRB stated that the film "popularized a version of President Kennedy's assassination that featured U.S. government agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the military as conspirators."{{sfn|Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board |1998 |loc=Chapter 1, p. 1}} While describing the film as "largely fictional", the ARRB acknowledged Stone's point that official records were to be sealed from the public until 2029, and his suggestion that "Americans could not trust official public conclusions when those conclusions had been made in secret."{{sfn|Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board |1998 |loc=Chapter 1, pp. 1–2}} By ARRB law, all existing assassination-related documents were to be made public by 2017,<ref name= "ARRB">{{cite news | title = Chapter 5 The Standards for Review: Review Board "Common Law" | work = Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board | date = September 1998 | url = https://fas.org/sgp/advisory/arrb98/part07.htm | access-date = October 16, 2008 | archive-date = October 14, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081014065911/http://www.fas.org/sgp/advisory/arrb98/part07.htm | url-status = live }}</ref> and most are now released.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection|url=https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk|website=National Archives|date=August 15, 2016 |language=en-US}}</ref>