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Declasified JFK -Antentat files published by Trump Administration

President Donald Trump published a cache on Tuesday with untried classifications in connection with the murder of President John F. Kennedy from 1963, but experts say that the documents will probably not end speculation about the notorious killing.

Trump told reporters on Monday during a visit to John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that the new publication would be about 80,000 pages, but he gave no additional information about what the files would contain.

“People have been waiting for it for decades,” said Trump on Monday. “It will be very interesting.”

The Times had no opportunity to check the documents yet.

The records are only a piece of the millions of pages with attacks in connection with the national archives, most of which have already been made available to the public.

Even six decades after Kennedy's death, researchers remain fascinated by the assassination attempt and the associated events. And the possibility that the documents could result in significant new information about one of the most shocking murders of the 20th century is equally tempting for scientists and conspiracy theorists.

“It is almost a Shakespeare moment in American politics when they have the top of his game – a woman, wealthy family … whose life in a fighting battle, failed by a fighting battle,” said John Shaw, a JFK expert from JfK and the Southern Ib. University Carbondale.

“The type of unplausibility of Kennedy's life, which ends so abruptly and apparently senselessly, is only one of the things that only stay with them and have obviously stayed in the country for over 60 years,” said Shaw.

On November 22, 1963, Kennedy drove in an open convertible with first Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, governor of Texas, John B. Connally Jr. and Connally's wife Nellie when her carolonnue drove through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.

Human quantities lined the streets and waved the Kennedys as they drove past. When the Autokolonne drove the Texas School Book Depotory by, shots rang on the Plaza.

Kennedy was hit in the neck and head and declared dead in the Parkland Memorial Hospital. Connally was shot in the back, but recovered.

Officials arrested a worker in the Book Depository Building named Lee Harvey Oswald, a former sympathizer of the Navy and Marxist, who tried to become a citizen of the Soviet Union at a point. Oswald was killed two days later by Dalla's Nightclub owner Jack Ruby during an infant change in live television.

While the government came to the conclusion that both men acted alone, theories about deaths have increased in more than half a century. The murder produced several conspiracy theories, which included the participation of the CIA, a second shooter in a nearby grass hill or that the Cubans or even Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson played rolling at the shootout.

A Gallup survey published in 2023 showed that the majority of the Americans continue to believe that Oswald did not act alone, but worked with others in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.

One reason why other theories were likely to be stopped is that the government's story that Oswald acted alone is only an unsatisfactory explanation and history for the public, said Shaw.

“These other alternative theses make history at least more complicated and interesting,” said Shaw.

The widespread conspiracy theories caused the congress to adopt a law from 1992 that is prescribed that documents in connection with Kennedy's murder are published within 25 years, with the exception of those who had the potential to impair national security. Trump published some of the documents in 2017, but agreed to delay the disclosure of others. Former President Joe Biden did the same during his term.

After Trump accepted an office for a second term, he signed an executive regulation for the publication of all government documents in connection with the Kennedy Emergency. He also wrote down the records of Kennedy's brother's attacks, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Shaw even said with the publication of the documents that the debate about Kennedy's death would take.

“The story will not end,” he said. “The discussions will continue who was really behind the murder of John F. Kennedy.