President Trump announced on Tuesday that he would release an 80,000-page unedited file on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy after promising a campaign trail to declassify documents.
“While we were here, I thought it was appropriate – we're releasing and providing all of Kennedy's files tomorrow. So people have been waiting for this for decades, so I directed my people… many different people. [Director of National Intelligence] The president told reporters while on tour of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
“You've read a lot. I don't think we're going to edit anything. I said, 'Just not edit, you can't edit,'” the president said.
When asked if he saw what was in the file, he said, “I heard about them.” He added, “I'm not giving a summary, you'll write your own summary.”
Trump in January signed an executive order directing the release of federal documents related to the assassination of Kennedy and the assassination of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
The order directed the Director of National Intelligence to present the plan within 15 days for the “complete and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”
In its 2024 campaign, Trump pledged to declassify remaining government documents regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The plot continues about the CIA involvement and the presence of another shooter.
“I told you I'd do it during the campaign. I'm the guy of my words,” Trump said Monday.
Trump made the same pledge during his first term, but he ultimately enveloped several documents in intellectual concerns.
The last major dump of the document came in 2022 when the National Archives released around 13,000 new files related to the assassination.
Congress passed a law in 1992 requiring that all remaining government records regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy should be released by October 2017.
