We are sad to announce that Truth and Reconciliation Committee cochair Dan Storper passed away on May 22, 2025. Our friend Dan believed in viewing the future with brightness, positivity and objectivity, and among many other things he was passionate about giving Americans a basic understanding of how and why the assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X really happened.
Dan had long wanted Congress to release all previously classified files pertaining to those four assassinations. Had he felt healthier, he would no doubt have been ecstatic about everything Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets has accomplished on that score this year.
It feels appropropriate to lift up Dan today because it's the anniversary of both D-Day and the assassination of one of Dan's heroes: Robert F. Kennedy.
Brief reminder: On June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy for the final assault on Hitler's armies. More than 72,000 American soldiers arrived on the battered coast of Europe that day, carrying with them the hope of a world free from racism, want and fear. The troops' successful arrival — against all odds and under horrific circumstances — marked the beginning of the end for Adolf Hitler.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander on D-Day. He had led the United States to victory against the Nazis in 1944, but by 1961, he was warning his fellow Americans that a "military-industrial complex" now posed a mortal threat to democracy. "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex," he said in his farewell address as POTUS. "The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
Cut to 1968. On June 6 of that year, Robert Francis Kennedy was shot dead. He had recently announced his candidacy for the presidency on a platform that might seem strange to us today. "I run to seek new policies," he said, "policies to end the bloodshed in Vietnam and in our cities, policies to close the gaps that now exist between Black and white, between rich and poor, between young and old — in this country and around the rest of the world. I run for the presidency because I want the United States of America to stand for hope instead of despair, for reconciliation ... instead of the growing risk of world war."
RFK's murder was the last in a series of four history-distorting assassinations that started with the death of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, and continued on through the brutal killings of human rights champions Malcolm X and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As you remember D-Day today, as you remember Robert F. Kennedy, please also remember our friend Dan Storper, who defended truth and democracy in his own way until the very end. Sign the petition at AmericanTruthNow.org/sign and help spread Dan's message of hope for America.
