The Trump administration has released thousands of unredacted documents related to the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. On Tuesday, about 2,200 files comprising over 63,000 pages were posted on the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration website.
This release adds to the vast collection of over 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, and artifacts already available to the public. The newly released documents are expected to shed light on one of the most controversial and debated events in American history.
President Donald Trump announced the release on Monday during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. “We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading,” he remarked, emphasizing the volume of information being made available. He noted that people have been awaiting these documents for decades.
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a motorcade. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder, but his own death two days later sparked numerous conspiracy theories that persist to this day.
In addition to the JFK files, President Trump signed an executive order on January 23 to declassify any remaining documents related to the assassinations of Kennedy’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
The release of these documents offers historians, researchers, and the public an unprecedented opportunity to delve deeper into these pivotal moments that shaped the course of history.
