DALLAS — In a move that could shed new light on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration released over 63,000 pages of related documents on Tuesday.
The release, ordered by President Donald Trump, included roughly 2,200 files posted to the National Archives website. Notably, many of these documents were released without the redactions that had previously obscured details and fueled decades of conspiracy theories.
The National Archives’ collection related to the JFK assassination comprises over 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, and artifacts, the vast majority of which were released prior to this latest disclosure.
President Trump announced the release while visiting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Monday, stating that his administration would release approximately 80,000 pages.
“We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading,” Trump said.
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