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White House releases JFK assassination files

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All classified records about the killing of the former US president have been made available to the public, the National Archives has said.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has released thousands of pages of government files related to the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

The National Archives uploaded some 63,000 pages of documents on its website in two initial tranches on Tuesday, with more files expected to be publish once they are digitized.

“All records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released,” it said.

Shortly after taking office on January 20, Trump signed an executive order to declassify government documents related to the assassinations during the 1960s of John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.

The shooting of JFK has long been the subject of speculation in the US regarding the alleged role of rogue elements within the government.

A poll by Gallup in 2023 suggested that 65% of Americans did not believe the findings of the official investigation, which concluded Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine, acted alone in killing the 35th US president. Among those surveyed, 20% said they believed that Oswald conspired with the US government, while another 16% suggested that the CIA had been involved.

Trump told reporters on Monday that “people have been waiting decades” for the publication of the JFK assassination files. Approximately 80,000 pages of previously classified records would be made available to the public, he added.

“I said during the campaign that I would do it, and I am a man of my word,” the president insisted.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said in a statement on Tuesday that the records are being released in fulfillment of Trump’s promise of “maximum transparency and a commitment to rebuild the trust of the American people in the Intelligence Community (IC) and federal agencies.”

Scholars, historians, and journalists are likely to spend months sifting through the records for new information about Kennedy’s killing, with the newly published files being identified only by record numbers and having no descriptions.

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  1. Spoiler alert: The CIA orchestrated all of it.

    Oswald was just a patsy.

    Everyone involved is basically now dead so nothing to see here 😉

    The conspiracy theorists were right all along.

  2. They havent released them all, just the ones that have a lower security classification, the rest and best are still to come.

  3. Of the files released so far, one states the Jack (Jewish) Ruby was seen several weeks before the killing sharing a coffee with LHO.

    • Maybe they are just handing out cyanide caps as we speak.
      Rumour has it that George is shaking too much to hold ’em.

  4. I have seen the video of the CIA driver momentarily turning his around and shooting JFK in the head with his left hand from a low angle. He then turned around and sped away. I have emailed this video to Daily Telegraph a few weeks back.

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