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What could we learn from newly published JFK attacks?

The US government published the documents previously posted on Tuesday in connection with the murder of President John F. Kennedy from 1963.

President Donald Trump announced the publication of around 80,000 pages of new materials, a large part of which has not yet been digitized and uploaded to the Internet.

It contributes to the more than six million pages of records and media that maintains the national archives with the assassination attempt.

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In order to understand the import of new publications on Tuesday, Scripps News with Jefferson Morley, co-founder and author of JFK Facts, a journalistic newsletter and a podcast, which is devoted to reporting on the JFK attack.

He said the newly published information could answer questions about the assassination attempt that have only come to light in recent years.

“What we have learned in the past 20 years – everything undermines the official history that a man killed the president for no reason,” said Morley. “This theory is no longer durable. It is not objectively supported. The doctors in Dallas who tried to save Kennedy's life agreed that he had been shot from two different directions. The CIA knew much more about Lee Harvey Oswald when they ever told an investigation.”

“These are the areas from which I think we can learn something, especially about the CIA and Lee Harvey Oswald. This story was completely buried by the Warren Commission, it was not known to the investigators of the congress in the 1970s. It has really only been learned in recent years. This is the area in which there is the potential for real breakthough.”

Take a look at the full interview with Morley in the video above.