President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration will release 80,000 pages of unredacted documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify the files.
“People have been waiting for decades for this,” Trump told reporters at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. He instructed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to release all documents on Tuesday without redactions.
The move follows Trump’s January executive order directing the full declassification of records related to the assassinations of JFK, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. The order required a plan from intelligence agencies within 15 days for the release.
Despite Congress mandating the disclosure of all JFK records by 2017, both Trump and President Biden previously extended secrecy provisions, citing national security concerns. The National Archives last released 13,000 JFK-related files in 2022, but many remained classified.
“I said during the campaign I’d do it, and I’m a man of my word,” Trump said.
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