On Saturday, October 21, President Trump announced that he plans to release classified government documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy “subject to the receipt of further information.”
Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper in November of 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Trump’s tweet comes as he approaches an October 26 deadline set in law by Congress authorizing the public release of the highly secretive documents – including CIA and FBI files – barring any action by Trump to block the release of certain documents.
“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” Trump said. In the tweet, the president seems to leave open the possibility that some of these documents will remain concealed.
According to The White House, everyone is working around the clock “to ensure that the maximum amount of data can be released to the public” by next week’s deadline.
The archive contains roughly 3,000 previously unreleased documents, as well as more than 30,000 documents that have been released before but with redactions. However, according to a Washington Post report, Kennedy assassination experts are fairly certain that these documents do not contain any major bombshells.
As for Trump, the president is no stranger to the conspiracy theories that have long centered around the assassination of JFK, who was the 35th president of the United States.
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