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JFK files are expected to be published today

According to President Trump, thousands of files in connection with the murder of former President John F. Kennedy will be published on Tuesday afternoon in connection with the Tuesday afternoon.

Kennedy's murder in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963 has been a point of fascination for historians and conspiracy theorists over the years.

The documents were published after President Trump signed a publication of the executive in the early days of his second term.

What are the JFK files?

What we know:

On Monday, President Trump said that 80,000 pages were published.

The files were created by a team under the US director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

Thousands of records were recently uncovered by the FBI.

The FBI announced FOX News that approximately 2,400 new inventory and digitized records, which have so far not been recognized as in connection with the JFK attack file.

What we don't know:

The content of the documents is not known, but is not expected to contain major revelations.

“People have waited for decades,” said Trump reporters at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on Monday.

When will the JFK files be published?

President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie Connally drive together in a convertible limousine in Dallas. Several stops later, President Kennedy and Governor Connally were shot in the limousine

President Trump said the files were released on Tuesday afternoon.

Are the JFK files published?

The files were not published from 9 a.m.

Kennedy Family reaction to the publication of assassination files

What you say:

Shortly after the executive order called the publication of the files, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of the former President Kennedy and President Trump's Secretary for Health and Human Services of the press said that the publication was a “big step” of the president. He said he believed that the move will bring “more transparency”, and it shows that Trump “keeps his promise to tell the government of the American people the truth”.

Other members of the Kennedy family were not so pleased and described the move as “political prop”.

“The truth is much sad than the myth -a tragedy that did not have to happen. Not part of an inevitable big scheme,” said Jack Schlossberg from JFK at the Social Media platform X.

JFK files published in recent years

During his first term, President Trump ordered that the records of John F. Kennedy Assassination Records from 1992 were published.

In 1992 the Congress passed President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. The law ordered the archives, all collected information – around 5 million pages of material – to reveal within 25 years, apart from exceptions that were determined by the President.

Trump promised to release and release all documents collected with minimal editorial offices.

Instead, a few thousand documents were held back during his first term. In 2018, the President said that the potential of the remaining documents, national security, law enforcement authorities or the foreign affairs predominated the public interest.

Another documents were published in 2021 by President Joe Biden. Documents were also published in 2022 and 2023.

What has already been published?

Lee Harvey Oswald (1939 – 1963) (R), alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is arrested by a police officer while he was arrested, Dallas, Texas, November 1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Grab deeper:

So far, the national archives have published more than 5 million pages with documents in connection with the murder of Kennedy.

Some of the documents include memos of the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover hours after Lee Harvey Oswald was killed in Dallas, and asked the government to dismiss something to convince the public that Oswald John F. killed Kennedy.

It became two days after the president's murder and hours after Oswald from the nightclub owner Jack Ruby was killed in the Dallas police station.

Other documents reveal theories of other government officials who deal with the assassination attempt.

Richard Helms from 1975 states that President Lyndon B. Johnson believed that Kennedy was behind the attack of the South Vietnamese President a few weeks before his assassination attempt and that the shootout was retaliation.

Other documents include reports on strange calls to foreign media, plans to murder the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and information from the secret service agency of the former Soviet Union, the KGB, which Johnson connected to the murder.

Others are reports on Oswald's trip to Mexico city to visit the messages of the Cubans and the Soviet Union, and agreements with the United States and Mexican governments of the United States to maintain close monitoring of the messages.

Kennedy attack

Kennedy was fatally shot on November 22, 1963 in downtown Dallas when his carolonne stood in front of the Texas School Book Depository Building, where 24-year-old assassin Lee Harvey Oswald positioned himself from a sniper beard on the sixth stick. Two days after Kennedy had been killed, the nightclub owner Jack Ruby Oswald fatally shot during a prison transfer.

The Warren Commission Schloss 1964 that Oswald acted alone and fired three shots from a window in the depot. Many Americans have questioned this conclusion. In 1978, the House Select Committee ended its own investigation for attacks by finding that Kennedy “was probably murdered due to a conspiracy”.

The source: Information in this article about the publication of the documents comes from President Donald Trump's statements on March 17, 2025. The information about the remaining files comes from Associated Press and Fox News. Details on previously published records come from the Warren Commission and the previous FOX 4 reporting.

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