After twenty-five years, the last batch of documents related to the John F. Kennedy assassination is finally being released to the public. It promises to settle once and for all a series of burning questions. Was Lee Harvey Oswald really the lone gunman? Was Jack Ruby part of a larger conspiracy? Did the Mafia conspire to kill Kennedy?

One might ask another question: How much does it really matter?

To be clear, the documents’ release is undoubtedly a good thing, not just as a matter of government transparency, but because the public has a right to know what exactly happened in this murky incident that’s been subject to decades of outrageous government obfuscation.