President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration will release around 80,000 pages on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
âWe are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files,â Trump told reporters as he toured the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. âPeople have been waiting for decades for this.â
Trump said a team led by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard put together the files, which he vowed on the campaign trail to release in full.
âI donât believe weâre going to redact anything. I said, âJust donât redact. You canât redact,ââ he said. âI said during the campaign Iâd do it, and I am a man of my word.â
Asked if he was given an executive summary of the files, Trump said he was ânot doing summaries.â
âWe have a tremendous amount of paper. Youâve got a lot of reading⌠youâll make your own determination,â he said.
Shortly after he returned to office in January, Trump signed an executive order instructing the release of classified documents on the assassinations of JFK, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Last month, the FBI said it uncovered some 2,400 records on the JFK assassination that had largely been kept secret over the past few decades. The agency did not reveal the contents of the newly discovered records.
JFKâs assassination in November 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine, has long attracted conspiracy theories. In 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said 97 percent of some five million pages on the former presidentâs killing had been made public.
The Trump administration also released much-hyped files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein last month, with conservative influencers getting first dibs on white binders that they held up as they stepped out of the White House.
The Epstein files later got scorched by MAGAworld, which was disappointed to find that the documents offered little new information.
