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The National Archives released approximately 80,000 records on Tuesday related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
The files are available online at the National Archives website.
“We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, just don’t redact. You can’t redact,” Trump said Monday ahead of the release of the files. “But we’re going to be releasing the JFK files, and that would be tomorrow.”
“It’s approximately 80,000 pages,” he said. “So it’s a lot of stuff, and you’ll make your own determination.”
According to the National Archives, “Executive Order 14176, Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., signed by President Donald J. Trump on January 23, 2025, says, ‘it is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.’”
The website notes that, “As custodian of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, the National Archives fulfills an essential role in making these records available to the American people,” adding, “All records in the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection will be made available online.”
As RSBN previously reported, Trump vowed to share files concerning Kennedy ahead of his inauguration.
“As the first step to restoring transparency and accountability to government we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents. And in the coming days, we’re going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other topics of great public interest,” Trump stated in January.
On Jan. 23, Trump signed an executive order to declassify records concerning the assassinations of Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay,” the order read.
