Blakey was chief counsel and staff director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979 regarding the murders of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and helped to draft the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.
Blakey was chief counsel and staff director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979 which investigated the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., under the direction of Congressman Louis Stokes. Blakey also helped draft the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.