DONALD Trump has officially declassified and released all remaining JFK assassination records, fulfilling a long-standing promise to shed light on one of history’s greatest mysteries.
The US president said nothing will be redacted from the documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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John F. Kennedy was shot to death on November 22, 1963
Pages of previously classified documents are now accessible online via the National Archives website or in person at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
The vast majority of the National Archives’ collection of over 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination have previously been released.
Trump told reporters Monday that his administration will be releasing 80,000 files, though its not clear how many of those are among the millions of pages of records that have already been made public.
“We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading,” Trump said at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.
Researchers have estimated that 3,000 records or so hadn’t been released, either in whole or in part.
And last month, the FBI said that it had discovered about 2,400 new records related to the assassination.
Christopher Robinson, an official in the National Security Division, informed staff that every lawyer in the Operations Section of the Office of Intelligence had been instructed to review 400 to 500 documents each, according to a Monday evening email seen by Reuters.
The office’s attorneys usually deal with national security cases.
Robinson set a Tuesday noon deadline for the review, which covers records related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and potentially others.
JFK was shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, while travelling in an open-top car parade in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
The shooting has long been the subject of multiple conspiracies as questions have been raised over the years about the mob’s role as well as speculation over the CIA’s involvement in JFK’s death.
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