The National Archives published on Tuesday a huge amount of documents related to the murder of former president John F. Kennedy, after President Donald Trump promised that “all” records related to JFK’s murder would be made public.
Key data
The national archives said that the documents, published in more than 1,100 PDF files, include “all records previously retained for classification that are part of the collection of records of the murder of President John F. Kennedy”.
Trump said Monday during a visit to the Kennedy center in Washington that he would make public about 80,000 pages of files and told reporters that “people have been waiting for this for decades.”
Trump said: “I don’t think we are going to write anything,” he added that the National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard was leading the effort to organize the publication of the records.
During his first mandate, Trump also promised that he would publish the archives that detailed government information about Kennedy’s murder in 1963, and made some public, but gave in to security concerns by retaining others.
Approximately 98% of the collection, which contains more than 5 million pages of records, has already been made public and is in the national archives, in accordance with the Law of Collection of Records of the murder of President John F. Kennedy of 1992, which required that all files be made public in 2017, except exceptions for national security reasons.
What is expected to show the records?
The researchers previously estimated between 3,000 and 4,000 documents, some with complete or partial writings, which have not been published. The FBI said in February that he discovered 2,400 new records related to Kennedy’s murder while officials worked to comply with Trump’s executive order. Experts have said that it is unlikely that the remaining records contain some irrefutable evidence that changes the conclusions of the government. The latest document publications during Trump’s presidencies and former president Joe Biden mainly surrounded the activities of the CIA at that time, including a certain surveillance of the murderer Lee Harvey Oswald. Some of the documents that remain hidden contain information about a CIA agent, George Joannides, who came into contact with Oswald months before they triggered Kennedy, NBC reported, citing researchers at the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a non -profit organization that maintains a public database of government registries about Kennedy’s murder.
What other murder records do you plan to publish Trump?
Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second mandate ordering that government documents related to Kennedy’s murders, his brother and former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Key history
Kennedy was killed in Dallas on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, who was shot two days later while he was transferred to a new jail. The Warren Commission, who investigated the murder during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, concluded that Oswald acted alone, and there are no other verified evidence that suggested otherwise, although the conspiracies about Kennedy’s death persist. A 2013 Gallup survey, made coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s death, revealed that 61 % of Americans believe that Oswald did not act alone.
This article was originally published by Forbes Us.
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