More than 63,000 pages of records related to1963 assassinationpresidentJohn F. Kennedywere released on TuesdayPresident Donald Trump's commandmanyeditorialThis for years of confused historians and helped drive conspiracy theories.
The US National Archives and Record administration has published about 2,200 files containing documents on its website. The vast majority of the National Archive collection with more than 6 million pages of records, photos, film images, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination were previously issued.
Larry J. Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Policy for Politics and the author of “Kennedy Half -century”, he said it would take time to fully review.
“We have a lot of work for a long time and people just have to accept it,” he said.
Trump announced the release on Monday when you visit John F. Kennedy Center for Theater Arts in Washington and says its administration would release about 80,000 pages.
“We have a huge amount of paper.
Before Tuesdays, scientists estimated that 3,000 to 3,500 files werestill unreleasedeither completely or partially. And just last monthFBI saidIt discovered about 2,400 new assassination records.
Jefferson Morley, Vice President of the Mary Ferrell Foundation Foundation, storage for assassination -related files, he said in a statement published on the social platform X that the release is a “encouraging beginning”. He said that “uncontrollable excessive exaggeration of trivial information” was excluded from the documents.
The National Archive said on its website that, in accordance with the President's directive, release would include “all records previously detained for classification”. However, Morley said that what was released on Tuesday did not include two -thirds of the promised files, none of the recently discovered FBI files or 500 internal Revenue Service records.
“However, these are the most positive reports on the issue of JFK files since the age of 90,” Morley said.
The interest in details related to the assassination of Kennedy was intense over the decades, with countless conspiracy theories about more shooters and the involvement of the Soviet Union and the mafia.
Was killed on November 22, 1963, on aDallas visitWhen its chamber completed its show to the center and the shots rang fromBook Depository Texas Schoolbuilding. Police arrested 24 yearsLee Harvey Oswaldwho stood from a sniper on the sixth floor. Two days later, the owner of the night club Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during the transfer of prison.
A year after the assassination, the Warren Commission, which President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced to the investigation, came to the conclusion that Oswald acted himself and that there was no evidence of conspiracy. But this has not formed the web of alternative theories over the decades.
Oswald was a former sailor who got into the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.
The new version ensembles included a memorandum from the CIA station in St. Petersburg since November 1991, saying that the CIA official made friends with an American professor who told an official about a friend who worked for the KGB. The Memorandum said that KGB official had checked “five thick volumes” of the Oswald files and “he was sure Oswald was not an agent controlled by the KGB at any time”.
The memorandum added that as Oswald was described in the files, the official KGB doubted “that anyone could control Oswald, but noted that the KGB followed him carefully and constantly when he was in the USSR.” He also noted that the ensemble reflected that Oswald was a bad shot when he tried to shoot in the Soviet Union.
At the beginning of the 90s, the Federal government ordered all the assassination -related documents to be placed in one collection in the National Administration of Archives and Records. The collection had to beOpen to 2017With the exception of all exceptions designated by the President.
Trump, who joined the office for his first term of office in 2017, said he would allow the release of all the remaining records but eventually held back because of what he calledPotential damage to national security. And while filesHe was still releasedSome of the invisible remained during the administration of President Joe Biden.
Sabato said that his team had a “long and long list of” sensitive documents seeking that they had previously had large editors.
“There must be something really, really sensitive to redress a paragraph or page or more pages in such a document,” he said. “Some of this is about Cuba, some of them are about what the CIA has done or did not do relevant to Lee Harvey Oswald.”
Some of thepreviously issuedDocuments provided details about the way in which intelligence services worked at that time, including CIA cables and Oswald visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies while traveling to Mexico City just before the assassination.
This story was originally listed on Fortune.com
