JFK Assassination Files Unsealed—What Has the Government Been Hiding? [WATCH]

The National Archives on Tuesday released a new batch of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, following an order from President Donald Trump.

The move fulfills a campaign promise Trump made to ensure the disclosure of long-classified government records surrounding the 1963 assassination.

The release comes just weeks after Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking office in January.

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Trump has followed through on his promise to declassify JFK assassination records, releasing 80,000 pages of files to the public:

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The order directed federal agencies to make public all previously unreleased records related to the assassinations of President Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

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It was not immediately clear how many of the newly released documents contained entirely unknown information.

Trump’s executive order required the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to present a plan within 15 days for the “full and complete release of records” concerning Kennedy’s assassination.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, while traveling in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

The killing has remained a subject of intense speculation and controversy for decades.

Lee Harvey Oswald, a Marine veteran who had embraced Marxist ideology and spent time in the Soviet Union, was identified as the lone gunman.

Authorities determined that Oswald fired from a window in the Texas School Book Depository, using a bolt-action rifle.

However, various conspiracy theories have suggested that there was more than one shooter, citing the speed and trajectory of the fatal shots.

A common alternative theory suggests that at least one additional gunman fired from an area known as the “grassy knoll” on the north side of Elm Street.

Oswald was arrested shortly after the shooting but was killed two days later while being transferred to a different jail.

Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald at close range in front of law enforcement and the press.

Ruby, who had connections to organized crime in Chicago, was convicted of murder but maintained that he acted alone.

The Warren Commission, the government panel tasked with investigating the assassination, concluded that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy and that Ruby also acted alone in killing Oswald.

Despite the commission’s findings, doubts have persisted for decades, leading to ongoing public interest in the classified records.

In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, requiring all government documents related to the assassination to be released by October 2017 unless the information posed a national security risk.

While some records were made public at that deadline, Trump extended the release timeline in 2018, citing national security concerns.

On Monday, Trump reiterated his commitment to releasing the documents, stating that the latest batch would amount to roughly 80,000 records when fully disclosed.

“I said during the campaign I’d do it, and I’m a man of my word,” Trump said Monday regarding the release.

The latest document disclosure is expected to reignite discussions over the Kennedy assassination and whether additional information could change the official narrative.

The National Archives is continuing to process and review the remaining records for public release.

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