Trump Announces Release of 80,000 JFK Files Today

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Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy (center) and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (right) are shown in the presidential motorcade shortly before Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. — Reuters — Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy (center) and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (right) in the presidential motorcade moments before Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, as captured in this handout image from November 22, 1963. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he has authorized the release of classified documents pertaining to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. He stated that approximately 80,000 pages of files concerning Kennedy will be made public today (Tuesday).

“People have awaited this for decades,” Trump expressed to reporters during a visit to The Kennedy Center in Washington.

“It’s going to be quite intriguing,” he added.

Earlier this year, Trump issued an executive order that called for the federal government to devise a plan to unveil records related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

In early February, the FBI announced that it had uncovered thousands of new documents connected to Kennedy’s assassination.

During his first week in office, Trump signed an order regarding the release of related documents and pledged to publicize records concerning the assassinations of both Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy, who were also killed in 1968.