The case that has inspired many conspiracy theories, the JFK assassination, is finally brought to light. President Trump issued an executive order that prompted the long-awaited release of the final batch of documents on the assassination more than 60 years later, BBC reported.
According to reports, Trump’s national security team had been working since January to prepare the files by removing redactions.
About 64,000 files are now public, but experts expect to find nothing groundbreaking. The US government has previously released many JFK documents but still holds some back over national security concerns.
Trump had previously expressed that 80,000 documents would be made public, and last Tuesday, about 64,000 documents were released from the National Archives and Records Administration, less than Trump had claimed. However, some of these documents were not entirely new and had been previously released in redacted form.
Trump’s executive also called to release files related to the killings of Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, both of whom died in 1968.
It will still be a long time before scholars are able to review all of the files released but the director of the Central Intelligence Agency said that some documents had nothing to do with the assassination, the New York Times reported.
Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK in Dallas, Texas, on 22 November 1963. Many American conspiracy theorists still believe that Oswald didn’t act alone; maybe these documents will finally answer these skepticists.
