Trump fulfills his promise: classified files on JFK assassination released
19 March 2025 08:45
The administration of US President Donald Trump has published classified documents related to the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy. According to Bloomberg, Trump fulfilled his campaign promise to make these materials public, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
Thus, the link to the website of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) with the records was posted on her social network X by Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbart. According to her, the files are “made available to the public without any redactions.”
Gabbard’s office also made a statement that the publication consisted of approximately 80 thousand pages of previously classified records published without redaction. Other documents that are kept under court seal or as grand jury secrets, or that fall under the Tax Code, should also be declassified.
“NARA is working with the Department of Justice to expedite the release of these records,” the statement said.
NARA added that the collection of assassination records already “consists of more than six million pages of records, photographs, films, sound recordings, and artifacts.”
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.
