The U.S. government fully released the remaining undisclosed files related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on the 18th, according to local time.
According to foreign media, the U.S. National Archives opened previously undisclosed records related to the assassination of former President Kennedy for public viewing at the National Archives in Maryland starting from this day.
Also, the National Archives' website included digitized documents, including handwritten statements taken in 1964 by the 'Warren Commission,' which was responsible for investigating the assassination. It remains uncertain whether the release of these documents will provide new information to clarify whether the JFK murder was a lone act, as many Americans still have doubts.
Larry Sabato, Director General of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and author of a book on the JFK assassination, said in an interview with Reuters, "Those expecting something 'big' will almost certainly be disappointed."
Former President Kennedy was assassinated by a bullet from Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine, on Nov. 22, 1963, while he was parading in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while being transferred to jail, intensifying conspiracy theories. A year after the incident, the investigation committee concluded that Oswald acted alone and announced that there was no evidence to support conspiracy theories, but many suspicions remain.
According to the Associated Press, the U.S. National Archives reviewed the classified documents related to the assassination of former President Kennedy in 2023, revealing that 99% of the total records, amounting to 6 million pages, had already been released. However, after President Trump's executive order, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) discovered 2,400 new records related to the case. Researchers estimate that prior to the full release of these remaining records, about 3,000 records had not been disclosed.
In addition, government confidential documents related to Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), former senator and father of Robert Kennedy Jr., the brother of JFK and Secretary of Health and Human Services during Trump’s second administration, as well as civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., will reportedly be released sequentially following Trump's executive order in January regarding the release of documents of two other prominent figures assassinated in the 1960s.