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In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released. The National Archives has partnered with agencies across the federal government to comply with the President’s directive in support of Executive Order 14176.”
The National Archives said in a statement on Tuesday
We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading,
Trump said while visiting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington
While we're here, I thought it would be appropriate—we are, tomorrow, announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files."
Speaking to reporters during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Trump said
It’s high time that the government got its act together and obeyed the spirit and the letter of the law,
Morley, who is also the vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, said at the time
This is about our history and our right to know it,
said Morley
People have so many doubts,
presidential historian Michael Beschloss said
We’re 59 years after President John Kennedy was killed and there’s just no justification for this,
Judge John Tunheim, who chaired the Assassination Records Review Board from 1994 to 1998, said when Biden released the recordsThe origins of the 80,000 pages of material are unknown,
Jefferson Morley, an expert on the JFK assassination and the CIA, wrote on his JFK Facts blogI believe that there were two shooters, and we should be finding more information as we are able to,
she said