US President Donald Trump will release the official classified documents about the assassination of former President John F Kennedy on Tuesday.
Trump said the files contain a lot of reading about the assassination that has fuelled conspiracy theories for decades.
The declassified document contains around 80,000 pages of files about the famous assassination of John F Kennedy, whose killing has fuelled conspiracy theories for more than six decades.
Speaking to reporters at the Kennedy Centre on Monday, Trump said the release will contain “a lot of reading” of the 35th US president, who was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
“I don’t believe we are going to redact anything. I said, Just don’t redact; you can’t redact,” Trump told reporters. “But we are going to be releasing the JFK files.”
Asked if he had seen what was in the files, Trump said he was aware of their contents, adding, “It’s going to be very interesting.”
Trump in January ordered the release of all remaining documents containing records regarding the infamous assassination, as well as files related to the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
Under the order, Trump ordered the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to present a plan within 15 days for the “full release” of files on the JFK assassination.
Last month, the FBI said that searches it had undertaken to comply with the order had turned up about 2,400 new files related to the assassination.
The circumstances of JFK’s death have captivated US society for decades, with surveys showing a majority of Americans doubt official explanations of the case.
In a 2023 Gallup poll, 65 per cent of Americans said they did not accept the Warren Commission’s finding that Lee Harvey Oswald, a US Marine veteran arrested over JFK’s death, acted alone in killing the president.
Former US President Joe Biden’s administration released about 17,000 more records, leaving fewer than 4,700 files withheld in part or in full.
According to the National Archives, authorities have released more than 99 per cent of the approximately 320,000 documents reviewed under the 1992 JFK Records Act.
