Trump administration releases over 1,100 JFK files

In 1963, unidentified files regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released on Tuesday evening.

More than 1,100 files were posted on the US National Archives and Records Administration’s website with over 31,000 pages. The majority of National Archives released more than 6 million pages, photos, motion pictures, sound recording and samples related to the murder.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that the release was coming, though it is estimated at about 80,000 pages.

With John F. Kennedy Center for performing arts in Washington, Trump said, “We have a lot of paper.

Details about the murder are deeply interested, which has given rise to countless conspiracy theories.

There are some things to know:

Trump’s order

Immediately after taking the oath of office, Trump ordered the release of the remaining files related to the murder.

He directed the National Intelligence Director and the Attorney General to prepare a plan to release the record. The purpose of this order is San Robert F. Kennedy and Rio. The remaining federal records regarding the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Junior are to be rejected.

After signing the order, Trump handed over the pen to an assistant and directed him to be given the Trump administration’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. He is the son of John F. Kennedy and the son of Robert F. Kennedy. The underage Kennedy, whose anti -vaccine activity has separated him from most parts of his family, said he was not sure that a lonely gunman was fully responsible for the murder of his uncle.

November 22, 1963

When Air Force One touched JFK and the first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in Dallas, they were welcomed by a clean sky and a enthusiastic crowd. Next year, with a re -election campaign on the horizon, he went to Texas to restore a political fence.

But when the motorcycle was eliminating its parade route, the Texas School book was shot from the depositor building. Police arrested 24 -year -old Lee Harvey Osald, who raised himself on the sixth floor with a sniper. Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Osold during the jail transfer.

A year after the murder, the Warne Commission, which was set up by President London B. Johnson, concluded that Osald worked alone and there was no evidence of his conspiracy. But it has not created a network of alternative ideas over decades.

JF’s files

In the early 1990s, the federal government mandated that all documents related to the murder should be kept in the same reservoir in the National Archives and Records Administration. This collection needed to be opened by 2017, except any exemption named by the President.

Trump, who assumed power for his first term in 2017, said he would allow all other records to be released, but because of this he withdrew some of the loss of national security. And when the President, who was released during the Biden administration, remained unseen.

National Archives say the majority of its records, photos, motion pictures, sound recording and the murder of more than 6 million pages have already been released.

Researchers have estimated that 3,000 files or more were not released, either fully or partially. And last month, the FBI said it had discovered about 2,400 new records regarding the murder. The agency then said that it was working to transfer records to the National Archives to join the decisions of the Declaration.

Nearly 500 documents, including tax declarations, were not subject to the need for the disclosure of 2017.

What has been learned

Some of the previous release documents present the details of the operating intelligence services, including the CIA cables and memo, which were discussed by Osald’s visit to the Soviet and Cuban embassies while traveling to Mexico City. The former Marine had previously refused the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.

A CIA memo reported how Osold called the Soviet Embassy to seek a visa to visit the Soviet Union in Mexico City. He also visited the Cuban embassy, ​​apparently interested in a travel visa that allowed him to visit Cuba and wait for the Soviet visa. On October 3, a month before the assassination, he returned to the United States via a crossing point on the Texas border.

The next day after Kennedy’s assassination, another memo says that according to a intermittent phone call in Mexico City, Osald spoke to a KGB officer during the Soviet Embassy in September. Researchers said the release also played an important role in the understanding of the time during the Cold War.