Most of the records related to Kennedy’s assassination had already been made public, according to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
A 1992 law required the release of these documents within 25 years unless they posed a national security risk.
Ending Decades of Secrecy
More than 60 years after JFK was fatally shot, the U.S. government began publishing 80,000 pages of previously classified records. Federal authorities have long maintained that Kennedy’s assassination was solely carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald, but conspiracy theories have persisted.
Trump’s executive order also covered documents related to the 1968 assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy Sr. and Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest,” Trump stated in his order, “and the release of these records is long overdue.”
JFK Assassination Files Go Public
The newly released records are available in digital format on the National Archives website, as well as in physical copies at the National Archives and Records Administration offices in Maryland.
