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Dallas (AP) – Previous documents in connection with the murder of President John F. Kennedy from 1963 were released on Tuesday evening according to President Donald Trump's order, shortly after taking office.

More than 1,100 files consisted of over 31,000 pages were published on the website of the US National Archives and the recording management. The vast majority of the collection of over 6 million pages with records, photographs, films, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination were previously published.

Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half Century”, said he had a team that went through the documents, but it can take some time until its full meaning becomes clear.

“We have a long time to do and people just have to accept it,” he said.

Trump announced the publication on Monday when he visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and said his administration would publish around 80,000 pages.

“We have an enormous amount of paper.

On its website, the National Archive said that the publication in accordance with the president's guideline would include “all the records previously retained for the classification”.

The researchers have estimated that around 3,000 files were neither published completely nor in part. And last month the FBI said that around 2,400 new records in connection with the assassination attempt discovered it.

Many who have examined what has been published by the government so far say that the public should not predict any earth-shaken revelations from the newly published documents, but there is still an intensive interest in details in connection with the assassination attempt and the events that surround them.

Trump's January command instructed the National Secret Service Director and Attorney General to develop a plan to publish the records.

Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963 during a visit to Dallas. When his car colonne ended her parade route in the city center, the shots from Texas School Book Depository Building fell off. The police arrested 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, who had positioned himself on the sixth floor of a sniper. Two days later, the nightclub owner Jack Ruby Oswald was fatal during a transfer of prisons.

A year after the murder, the Warren Commission, which President Lyndon B. Johnson set up for the investigation, came to the conclusion that Oswald was alone and that there was no evidence of a conspiracy. But that has not suppressed any network of alternative theories over the decades.

Oswald was a former marine who thought about the Soviet Union before returning to Texas.

The files in the new publication contained a memo of the St. Petersburg station in the CIA with the inscription at the beginning of this month from November 1991, there was friends with a US professor who told the official of a friend who worked for the KGB. The memo said that the KGB officer checked “five thick volumes” of files on Oswald and “confident that Oswald was never an agent controlled by the KGB.”

The memo added that the KGB official, as Oswald was described in the files, doubted that every Oswald could control, but realized that the KGB observed it precisely and constantly while it was in the USSR. “It also found that the file reflected that Oswald was a bad shot when he tried to shoot in the Soviet Union.

In the early nineties, the Federal Government asked that all murder -related documents are accommodated in a single collection of the National Archives and Records Administration. The collection had to be opened until 2017, apart from the exceptions specified by the President.

Around 500 documents, including tax returns, are not subject to the 2017 disclosure obligation.

Trump, who took office for his first term in 2017, had said that he would allow the publication of all remaining records, but held a little back because he described the potential damage to national security. And while the files were still published during the administration of President Joe Biden, some remained invisible.

Sabato said that his team had a “long, long list” sensitive documents after which major editors were previously recorded.

“Something really has to be, really sensitive to reduce a paragraph or a page or more pages in such a document,” he said. “Part of it around Cuba, part of what the CIA did for Lee Harvey Oswald or not, did it.”

Some of the previously published documents have given details of the way secret services were carried out at this time, including CIA cables and memos, who discussed the visits from Oswald to the Soviet and Cuban messages during a trip to Mexico city just a few weeks before the assassination attempt.

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John Hanna, Associated Press writer, contributed from Topeka, Kansas.

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