President Donald Trump announced that his government will publish around 80,000 pages with documents in connection with the murder of former US President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday and repeats the long-term public interest in one of the most discussed historical events of the country.
Trump spoke to reporters at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Monday and said the files were completely published.
“I don't think we will reduce something,” he said. “I said: 'Just don't reduce, you can't reduce.' But we will publish the JFK files.
The announcement follows an Executive order signed in January, in which a complete and complete publication of all remaining documents for the murder of JFK as well as files for the death of the civil rights director Martin Luther King JR and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Trump said the publication would “read a lot” and promised that it would be “very interesting”.
Kennedy was murdered on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, an event that has been producing conspiracy theories for decades. Public opinion polls consistently show a widespread skepticism compared to the official findings that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
A 2023 -Gallup survey showed that 65% of Americans did not accept the Warren Commission's conclusion. Around 20% believed that Oswald had conspired with the US government and 16% believed that he had worked with the CIA.
As part of the JFK Records Act from 1992, the US government had to publish all relevant documents by 2017 if the president stated its release that a national security risk was presented.
During the first administration of Trump, only around 2,800 documents were published after secret services had requested further time to check the remaining materials.
Former President Joe Biden later approved the publication of around 17,000 additional documents. Less than 4,700 files remain partially or completely classified.
According to the National Archive, more than 99% of the approximately 320,000 documents checked as part of the law have now been published.
This new publication is part of a wider guideline of Trump, which also contains records that are connected to the attacks by Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Trump has instructed the director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to submit a plan for the publication of these files.
In February, the FBI confirmed that there had been over 2,400 documents previously invisible in connection with the JFK attack.
