US lawyers urgently check the documents before publication

The US government is expected to publish about 80,000 pages for the murder of JFK on Tuesday, a step that may have ended more than six decades theories who was responsible for killing.

Trump spoke in the Kennedy Center in Washington on Monday and said that he would maintain an election promise to publish the documents. He said that pages would not be edited.

It is not clear whether he informed officials from the Ministry of Justice before announcing the announcement.

“We have an enormous amount of paper,” said Trump at the event location of the performing arts, which bears the name of the former president. “You read a lot”. He added: “I said,” You just can't reduce. “

It was not announced where the documents would be published, whether they would all be released in a tranche or whether one of the papers would be held back for national security reasons.

• Why JFK files do not stop the conspiracy theories

In 1992, the congress passed legislation to publish all remaining documents in connection with the assassination attempt.

Kennedy, who became president in 1961 at the age of 43, was shot when his open top car drove through Dallas in November 1963. It was the fourth time that a US president had been murdered after the death of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley.

A secret service day and Jackie Kennedy react when the president puts down after the shot

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Kennedy's shooting, witness on television, inspired dozens of conspiracy theories. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US navy and someone who lived in the Soviet Union was arrested for suspected murder. He was fatally shot by a local nightclub owner, Jack Ruby.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on November 23, 1963, one day after the death of JFK

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On November 24th he was fatally shot by Jack Ruby

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Ruby claimed that he acted about Kennedy's death, but his role was also the subject of speculation. He died of cancer four years later when he served a prison sentence for murder on Oswald.

A year after Kennedy's murder, the Warren Commission, which President Lyndon Johnson set up to investigate the case, came to the conclusion that Oswald was alone and that there was no evidence of a conspiracy.

The findings have not undertaken anything to stop decades of theories, from the idea of ​​a Russian hit on unfounded accusations that the CIA ordered the murder.

“I was never refuted Oswald as the shooter,” Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University, told CNN. “However, there is still a lot of secret [about] If there were people in collaboration with him. “

Historians who have studied the still published newspapers to make up about 1 percent of all official documents that exist when killing Kennedy that the public should not expect a smoke weapon except for those who belongs.

• “I killed JFK – the attack acts are a lie”

What is probably more interested in historians is why the papers published on Tuesday were held back for so long.

There are strong indications of connections between Oswald and the KGB in already published documents. It shows that Oswald communicated with a KGB officer in the Soviet message in September, two months before the shootout.

Several presidents, including Trump during his first term and Joe Biden, published thousands of documents in connection with the assassination attempt, but held back certain files on national security concerns, sometimes at the behest of the American espionage agencies.

The researchers have estimated that around 3,000 files were not published.

Last month, the FBI said that around 2,400 new records in connection with the assassination attempt discovered it. The agency then said that it was working to transfer the records to the national archives in order to be included in the declassification process.

There are still some documents in the JFK collection, of which researchers do not believe that the president will be able to publish. Around 500 documents, including tax returns, are not subject to the 2017 disclosure obligation.