JFK post -act files published that sends people interested in history who are looking for new information

Dallas (AP) – more than 63,000 pages of records in connection with the 1963 assassination attempt by President John F. Kennedy were published on Tuesday An order of President Donald Trumpmany Without the editorial offices This had confused historians for years and contributed to refueling conspiracy theories.

The US National Archives and records have posted around 2,200 files with the documents on the website. 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 that it would take some time to fully review the records.

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

Trump announced the publication on Monday Visiting The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington said that his government would publish about 80,000 pages.

“We have an enormous amount of paper.

Before Tuesday, the researchers had estimated that 3,000 to 3,500 files were Still unpublishedEither whole or in part. And only last month Said the FBI It had discovered around 2,400 new records in connection with the assassination attempt.

Jefferson Morley, Vice President of Mary Ferrell Foundation, a repository for files related to the attack, said in a statement published on the social platform X that the publication was “an encouraging start”. He said a large part of the “rampant overlassification of trivial information had been removed from the documents”.

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”. But Morley said that what was published on Tuesday did not contain two thirds of the promised files, one of the recently discovered FBI files or 500 Internal Revenue Service Records.

“Nevertheless, these are the most positive news for the publication of JFK files since the 1990s,” said Morley.

The interest in details in connection with Kennedy's murder was intensely intensive over the decades, with countless conspiracy theories about several shooters and the participation of the Soviet Union and Mafia emerged.

He was killed on A on November 22, 1963 Visit to DallasWhen his car colonne ended her parade route in the city center and shot out of the Texas textbook Depository Building. The police arrested the 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswaldwhich had positioned itself on the sixth floor of a sniper barle. 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 2017Apart from exceptions called the president.

Trump, who took office for his first term in 2017, had said Potential damage to national security. And during files continue to be released Some remained invisible during the administration of President Joe Biden.

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 Previous previously Documents have details on the way secret services were carried out at the 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.