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History subjects dig into thousands of JFK attack files published by the Trump Administration: Live updates

Historians and JFK researchers enter new assassination documents, but find little new for discussion

Researchers both professional and amateur will take time to exceed the recently released JFK attack, but as it is out to be, it is doubtful that something really obvious can be found in the pile on Tuesday.

News agencies spoke to numerous authors and historians who all agreed that they had come across little new information and found that many of the documents had been published during earlier disclosures.

Things were not much different on social media; Every time someone thought he had found something interesting, someone else pointed out that the information had been published for years – sometimes for decades.

It is not a surprising development; In 2023, the national archives estimated that 99 percent of the government's documents had been published in connection with the murder of JFK.

Graig GraziosiMarch 19, 2025 04:02

Political scientist and Kennedy expert says

Larry Sabato, political scientist at the University of Virginia and author of “The Kennedy Half Century: The presidency, assassination attempt and permanent legacy of John F. Kennedy,” said CNN that he believed that the people who were looking for a smoking weapon publish the Kennedy attack in Donald Trump's document.

“I only tell you that we will learn things,” Sabato told the broadcaster. “But it may not be about the Kennedy attack and people who expect to crack the case after 61 years, will be bitterly disappointed.”

Many of the documents published on Tuesday had already been published. In 2023, the national archives estimated that 99 percent of the government's documents were published in connection with JFK.

Graig GraziosiMarch 19, 2025 03:14

Director of the National Secret Services praises Trump JFK Document Publication

Director of the National Secret Services Tulsi Gabbard praised her boss Donald Trump after the JFK documents -dump on Tuesday.

She noticed that Trump had kept his promise to publish the documents – which he did – even though it is still unclear whether there is something important in the documents that have not yet been unveiled in previous records.

See Gabard's statement below:

Graig GraziosiMarch 19, 2025 02:25

Unclear when Trump has changed his opinion on the explanation of the JFK declaration after the document waste

As early as 2021, Donald Trump threw the idea of ​​publishing the remaining JFK attacks. During an interview with the New York Times At that time, Trump seemed to accept the general consensus that JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.

“The reason why I did it was that I thought it was appropriate,” said Trump at that time at the period and referred to his request to release the documents. “If you have something that is so sacred, it sounds really bad.

Trump has given no indication that the content of the records published on Tuesday has postponed its perspective.

Graig GraziosiMarch 19, 2025 01:47

The historian calls Trump's JFK documents “impenetrable”

David J Garrow, a historian with specialist knowledge in the US secret services, told The New York Times That the abundance of documents in connection with JFK, which were published on Tuesday, were “deeply impenetrated” as a former Mass -Document publications.

This is partly because thousands of documents are missing any kind of annotation; It is unclear which agencies they produced and many lack of identifying information such as file numbers.

Graig GraziosiMarch 19, 2025 00:52

Trump publishes a large number of invisible documents for the JFK attack

Graeme massieMarch 19, 2025 00:16

How will I learn about newly published records?

Despite today's promise of the President, further information about the murder of President John F. Kennedy has not yet been published.

However, newly published records are accessible at the collection of President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records.

Mike BediganMarch 18, 2025 10:30 p.m.

There is no smoking weapon in the JFK files – only bombs

As America prepared for thousands of released CIA documents, former secret service officers John Kiriakou explains why there is not much light to lose the murder of the president – but we should expect fascinating details about the “second shooter” theory in the murder of his brother Robert.

There is no smoking weapon in the JFK files – only bombs

As America prepared for thousands of released CIA documents

Mike BediganMarch 18, 2025 22:01

Why are not all JFK attacks online?

If you wonder why the entire JFK attacks are not yet available online – this is a question of priority.

The recording collection consists of millions of pages, photographs, electronic objects and artifacts, most of which are available for public access in the National Archives at College Park in Maryland.

The National Archives are currently prioritizing the digitization of these records in order to make them more accessible online, ”said the institution.

Since January 2024, over 700,000 pages have been digitized and made available via the National Archives catalog.

Mike BediganMarch 18, 2025 9:30 p.m.

Where can the public see the JFK files when they are published?

As soon as the files are released and the white house gives the national archives to publish them, they can be displayed on this website.

Ariana BaioMarch 18, 2025 9:00 p.m.