Trump to release secret documents on JFK assassination today
18 March 01:25
US President Donald Trump has said that secret documents related to the 1963 assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy will be made public today, March 18
This is reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to C-SPAN.
According to Trump, the public will be presented with “all the files” related to the 35th President of the United States.
“People have been waiting for this for decades,” he said during a speech at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
He also said that he had instructed a special group of experts assembled by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to prepare the declassification materials, and they will be made public today.”
According to him, it is about the release of approximately 80 thousand pages of files related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He noted that the files were not redacted.
When asked by a journalist whether Trump had seen the files, he replied that he had “heard about them.”
In addition to the files on the Kennedy assassination, according to a decree signed by Trump in January, intelligence officials must also declassify documents related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy Sr. and Martin Luther King Jr.
On January 23, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a decree that provides for the declassification of documents related to the assassinations of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
What is known about the assassination of John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States of America.
He was assassinated on November 22, 1963, during a trip to Dallas, Texas.
Kennedy was in an open limousine with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife. As the motorcade passed Dilly Plaza, shots were fired. Kennedy was fatally shot in the head, and Governor Connally was seriously wounded but survived.
Later it was announced that the suspect in the assassination was Lee Harvey Oswald, who, according to the official version of the investigation, shot from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Oswald was arrested a few hours after the assassination attempt, but on November 24, 1963, he was shot dead at the Dallas police station by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
Oswald, a former Marine, lived in the USSR from October 1959 to June 1962 and planned to become a Soviet citizen and receive an education. He returned to the United States after marrying Marina Prusakova and giving birth to his daughter, June. Oswald was assassinated on November 24, 1963, while being transferred from the Dallas Police Department to the county jail. The suspect in the assassination was shot dead by local bar owner Jack Ruby.
In November 2017, the US National Archives and Records Administration published 10.7 thousand FBI documents related to the JFK assassination investigation.
Prior to that, documents related to the assassination of the 35th US president were published several times in 2017: on July 24, 3.8 thousand documents were declassified, on October 26 – 2.8 thousand, on November 3, Trump authorized the declassification of 676 documents on the assassination of President Kennedy, and on November 9 – 13.2 thousand.
