"A Lot of Material": Previously Secret Documents on the Murder of John F. Kennedy Released

"It's a lot of material," Trump said to journalists on Monday. 80,000 pages would be released. A government official said the documents would be made available to the public by the US National Archives. Trump also plans to release previously secret documents on the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Trump Has Released Documents on the Kennedy Assassination

The assassination of Kennedy in 1963 has fascinated the American public for decades. Although official investigations identify Lee Harvey Oswald as a lone perpetrator, many Americans believe in a conspiracy. Experts doubt that the newly accessible information will change the underlying facts of the case. According to them, Lee Harvey Oswald opened fire on Kennedy from a window of a school book depository as the president's motorcade passed by Dealey Plaza in Dallas. "Anyone expecting something big will almost certainly be disappointed," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, who has written a book about the assassination.

Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Believes in CIA Involvement

Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of Robert Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy, believes, according to his statements, that the American intelligence agency CIA was involved in his uncle's death. The agency has dismissed this as a baseless claim. However, the documents released by Trump could reveal that the CIA knew more about Oswald than was previously known. It is unclear what the CIA knew about Oswald's visits to Mexico City six weeks before the assassination. There, Oswald had visited the Soviet embassy.

During his first term from 2017 to 2021, US President Trump had already announced the release of documents on the murder of John F. Kennedy and indeed released some documents. Ultimately, however, he bowed to pressure from the CIA and FBI and kept a large portion of the documents under wraps, citing national security concerns.

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