On Tuesday, the Trump administration released thousands of pages of files concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President, who was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas in November 1963.
“So people have been waiting for this for decades,” says Donald Trump. I said “And I have to be responsible people, many different people,” reporters said during a visit to the Kennedy Center on Monday. [director of national intelligence] Tulsi Gabbard, and it is due to be released tomorrow. ”
Experts suspected that new information would change the fundamental facts of the incident. Lee Harvey Oswald fired fire at Kennedy through the window of the school's main deposit warehouse as the president's car passed by Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
The digital document included a PDF of the memos. This included a PDF of notes with a headline “secret” containing handwritten notes by CIA researchers in 1964 on CIA employee Lee Wiglen's conflicts in the materials provided to the State Department and the CIA, and on the materials provided to the CIA about marriage between Soviet women and American men.
The documents also included references to various conspiracy theories that suggested that Oswald left the Soviet Union in 1962 with the intention of assassinating a popular young president.
A 1963 Department of Defense document featured the Cold War of the early 1960s and the US involvement in Latin America, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro attempted to block the support of communist forces in other countries.
The documents suggest that Castro will not go far enough to cause a war with the United States or escalate to the point that “will put the Castro administration seriously and quickly in danger.”
“It appears that Castro will likely strengthen his support for his destructive forces in Latin America,” the document reads.
Trump signed the order shortly after taking office in January related to his release, urging the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to find thousands of new documents related to Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.
“President Trump is in a new era of greatest transparency,” National Intelligence Director Tarshi Gabbard said in a post in X.
ABC News It has been reported That Trump announcement prompted a scramble at the Justice Department.
John F. Kennedy was killed in a car on November 22, 1963, passing through Dallas. Oswald was killed two days later by Jack Ruby, the owner of a Dallas nightclub.
Since then, Kennedy's death has been the subject of immeasurable scholarships, cultural commentary, and spiral conspiracy theory.
The files were previously released, including three releases in 2017 when Trump first came to power. One of the documents released later was a 1975 CIA memo that showed that Oswald was not associated with the Intelligence Agency, as was assumed by many authors and enthusiasts.
The release of Trump's latest JFK file comes weeks after his death in 93, a Secret Service agent who jumped into Kennedy's car.
Trump survived his own assassination attempt in Pennsylvania during a campaign event last year. In office, he also pledged to release files in 1968 regarding the assassination of Kennedy's brother, the U.S. Attorney General, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of Robert F. Kennedy, is currently the Secretary of U.S. Health. He has voice The theory of the plot involves saying he thinks his father was probably killed by the CIA, and his uncle, the president, certainly did.
King's family expressed fear that the real FBI attempting to smear him would be taken to the light again.
Last month, Trump's U.S. Department of Justice released a file about Jeffrey Epstein, a financial offender who committed suicide in a New York prison in 2019, and the convicted Trump Associate.
Monday, Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Political Center and author of a book on Kennedy; I told Reuters: By the release of a new file called “people who expect big things to almost certainly be disappointed.”
Reuters contributed to the report
