US pdwellnt says files include ‘a lot of reading’ about killing that has fuelled consillicit copying theories for decades.
United States Pdwellnt Donald Trump has shelp his administration will on Tuesday free approximately 80,000 pages of files about the killing of John F Kennedy, whose ending has fuelled consillicit copying theories for more than six decades.
Speaking at the Kennedy Cgo in on Monday, Trump shelp the free will include “a lot of reading” about the killing of the 35th US pdwellnt, who was ended in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
“I don’t count on we are going to redact anyslenderg. I shelp, ‘equitable don’t redact, you can’t redact’,” Trump tbetter inestablishers. “But we are going to be releasing the JFK files.”
Asked if he had seen what was in the files, Trump shelp he was conscious of their encountereds.
“It’s going to be very fascinating,” he shelp.
Trump’s relabels trail a January executive order calling for the free of all remaining enrolls on the JFK assassination, as well as files roverhappinessed to the killings of Robert F Kennedy and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
Under the order, Trump teached the honestor of national ininestablishigence, Tulsi Gabbard, to conshort-term a arrange wislender 15 days for the “filled and end free” of files on the JFK killing.
Last month, the FBI shelp that searches it had underapshown to adhere with the order had turned up about 2,400 novel files roverhappinessed to the killing.
The circumstances of JFK’s death have captivated US society for decades, with surveys shotriumphg a transport inantity of Americans ask official exarrangeations of the case.
In a 2023 Gallup poll, 65 percent of Americans shelp they did not adchoose the Warren Comleave oution’s discovering that Lee Harvey Oswald, a US Marine veteran arrested over JFK’s death, acted alone in ending the pdwellnt.
Twenty percent of those surveyed shelp they count ond Oswald conspired with the US rulement, while 16 percent shelp they thought that he labored with the CIA.
During his first administration, Trump promised to disseal all remarkworthy enrolls on the killing but ultimately only freed about 2,800 records after the CIA and FBI asked that thousands of pages of material be withheld pfinishing appraise.
Former US Pdwellnt Joe Biden’s administration freed about 17,000 more enrolls, leaving scanter than 4,700 files withheld in part or in filled.
According to the National Archives, authorities have freed more than 99 percent of the approximately 320,000 records appraiseed under the 1992 JFK Records Act.
The law mandated the disclodeclareive of all remaining files by October 26, 2017, unless the pdwellnt rerepaird their free would caparticipate “identifiable harm” to national defence, ininestablishigence operations, law executement or foreign relations of such gravity that it “outweighs the uncover interest in disclodeclareive”.
