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Government releases latest batch of JFK assassination documents (www.nbcnews.com)

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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 administration's statement read.

Within minutes, thousands of documents that had been hidden from the public for decades appeared on the site.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the trove of documents contains any bombshells or evidence to counter the conclusion the Warren Commission reached in 1964 that a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots from the Texas Schoolbook Depository.

“You got a lot of reading,” Trump said Monday as he visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. “I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything.”

Trump was cagey about what would be in those files. Historians contend that around 4,700 documents haven't yet been released.

"The 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” blog before the new batch of documents was released.

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[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember, Oswald acted alone and this really just about placating his nutjob base with a distraction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8tO16xdrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptt1ti63IiE

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Or he didn't, and oligarchs got away with assassinating a President. Does that change anything, though? We live in a world where either is possible.

[–] PeripheralGhost@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Old cagey don distracting the masses

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll wait to get excited until researchers tell me there's a reason to be. The whole Epstein docs fiasco has not filled me with confidence in these bozos, not that I had any before that.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

A lot of documents turned out to be rehashed stuff Biden released in 2023. And there are still 3400+ unreleased pages.