Trump Releases More Than 2,000 Files on JFK's Assassination
Trump Releases More Than 2,000 Files on JFK’s Assassination
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President Donald Trump’s administration has released around 2,200 files — consisting of more than 63,000 pages — related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The release of the files comes after Trump signed a day one executive order in January aimed at fully releasing government documents related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother and presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard commended Trump’s move in a post on X on Tuesday, writing that the president “is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency.”
“Today, per his direction, previously redacted JFK Assassination Files are being released to the public with no redactions,” Gabbard wrote. “Promises made, promises kept.”
Gabbard also said that the previously-classified records were published “with no redactions.”
“Additional documents withheld under court seal or for grand jury secrecy, and records subject to section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, must be unsealed before release. NARA is working with the Department of Justice to expedite the unsealing of these records,” Gabbard said in a separate statement. “Grand juries from many years ago have already seen them, so most of this information is already out, but regardless of this, this information will be immediately released upon the direction of the Court.”
Some redactions will be made to documents released in the future, despite the President’s earlier statements, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News. Redactions will include personal information such as Social Security numbers of those cited in the documents and “live assets in Cuba,” the source said.
Fox News also was told that due to the large volume of documents it will take several days to release them all, with Tuesday being the first day.
Most of the files are scans of documents, and some are blurred or have become faint or difficult to read in the decades since Kennedy’s assassination. There are also photographs and sounds recordings, mostly from the 1960s.
Looking to read the JFK files yourself? You can find them on the National Archives’ website here.
Trump Releases More Than 2,000 Files on JFK’s Assassination was originally published on wibc.com
