Is the Book of Secrets from National Treasure: Book of Secrets a real book?
The Book of Secrets is not an authentic historical book. The Book of Secrets is a fictitious prop created for the movie National Treasure: Book of Secrets. This movie prop was loaned to the Library of Congress by Disney and displayed from July 1 to September 27, 2008, in the South Orientation Gallery on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building. There are, of course, real secrets that presidents are made aware of during their terms of office, mostly relating to military matters and national security. The National Archives and Records Administration keeps extensive records of investigations such as that regarding the Kennedy assassination (allegedly contained in the movie’s Book of Secrets). Many of these records are “classified” and not open to the public, at least for a certain period of time, but records of that sort would involve thousands of pages of documents and be managed by archivists with security clearances, not neatly contained in a single volume that could be passed
