(CLO) On Tuesday evening, the administration of US President Donald Trump released tens of thousands of pages of declassified documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, weeks after President Trump ordered government agencies to release JFK files to the public.
The documents were uploaded by the National Archives and Records Administration, the agency responsible for preserving government records related to the assassination. The archives said Tuesday about the JFK files that all previously secret files that had been withheld have now been released.
“There’s a lot of stuff and you’ll have to make your own decisions,” Mr Trump told reporters on Monday, saying 80,000 pages would be released. “People have been waiting for this for decades… It’s going to be very interesting.”
The newly declassified JFK Assassination Files release says there will be no redactions. Photo: White House
What's in the newly released JFK files?
Shortly after taking office in January, President Trump took executive action to establish a process for declassifying and releasing all remaining documents related to the Kennedy assassination, as well as the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Last month, the FBI said it had discovered about 2,400 assassination-related files during searches stemming from Mr Trump’s executive actions.
Mr Trump estimated the new files to be about 80,000 pages. Many of the files are said to be unredacted versions of documents that have been released but partially redacted in the past.
David Barrett, a political science professor at Villanova University who studies the Kennedy presidency, said he expected many of the documents to reveal “names of people, names of countries, references” and other details that have been kept secret at the request of intelligence agencies for years for various reasons.
“I don’t expect any shocking information, either regarding the assassination or more broadly,” Barrett said. “But, you know, you never know.”
Where to Read the New JFK Assassination Files
The documents have been uploaded to a portal maintained by the National Archives, which can be found here. The archives maintain a trove of government records known as the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.
The Kennedy family and Connally in the presidential limousine shortly before the assassination in Dallas. Photo: CC
According to the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a nonprofit that compiles historical government records about the JFK assassination and other events, about 3,500 documents in the official collection contain redactions before their latest release. About 75 percent of those records were created by the CIA. More than 500 other records have been withheld from public release altogether.
Kennedy was shot in the head on November 22, 1963, at the age of 46, while riding in an open car in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine, was soon arrested for the murder. But Oswald was also shot dead in the basement of Dallas police headquarters two days later.
The investigation, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded that Oswald acted alone when he shot Kennedy, but the investigation has been widely criticized by scholars and historians in the 62 years since the assassination. Oswald had been on the radar of the US government before the assassination, defecting to the Soviet Union in 1959 and returning to the US in 1962.
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