Trump Administration Releases 80,000 Pages of JFK Assassination Files
- Unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released, consisting of about 63,000 pages posted on the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration website.
- President Donald Trump ordered the release of classified JFK files shortly after taking office, aiming to declassify remaining records.
- Documents from earlier releases offer insights into intelligence operations at the time, detailing Lee Harvey Oswald's contacts with foreign embassies shortly before the assassination.
- Research indicates that around 2,400 new records related to the assassination remain unreleased, highlighting an ongoing interest in the event and the circumstances surrounding it.
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JFK Files Leave Researchers With More Questions Than Answers
WASHINGTON—Thousands of pages of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, were released late in the evening of March 18, revealing details about intelligence-gathering operations but little new information. While researchers have long awaited the declassification, some are questioning the content of the released files and whether more documents exist or were previously destroyed. Many digitized docume…
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