President Donald Trump announced that his administration would publish on Tuesday around 80,000 pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of former American president John F. Kennedy, revived on the long -standing public interest in one of the most debated historical events in the country.
Addressing journalists from the Kennedy Center in Washington on Monday, Trump said that the files would be in full.
“I don’t think we are going to explain anything,” he said. “I said,” Do not make sure you cannot explain. But we are going to publish the JFK files. »»
The announcement follows an executive decree signed in January, leading a complete and complete release of all the remaining documents linked to the assassination of JFK, as well as files concerning the death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Trump said that the release would contain “a lot of reading” and promised that it would be “very interesting”.
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, an event that generated conspiracy theories for decades. Public opinion surveys constantly show generalized skepticism of official conclusions that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
A Gallup survey in 2023 revealed that 65% of Americans did not accept the conclusion of the Warren Commission. About 20% thought Ooswald plotted with the US government, and 16% thought it was working with the CIA.
Under the 1992 law on the JFK files, the US government has been required to publish all relevant documents by 2017, unless the president determines only his release pose a risk of national security.
During the first Trump administration, only about 2,800 documents were published after the intelligence agencies requested more time to examine the remaining equipment.
Former President Joe Biden then authorized the release of around 17,000 additional files. Less than 4,700 files are partially or fully classified.
The national archives indicate that more than 99% of approximately 320,000 documents examined under the law have now been published.
This new version is part of a broader Trump directive which also includes recordings linked to the 1968 assassinations by Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F. Kennedy. Trump asked the Tulsi Gabbard national intelligence director to also submit a plan for the declassification of these files.
In February, the FBI confirmed that it had discovered more than 2,400 documents previously invisible linked to the JFK assassination.
