Long Awaited JFK Files Could Be Released Soon

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Approximately 5,000 documents remain sealed or redacted, more than 60 years after the president was assassinated.

The Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Attorney General have until Feb. 7 to present a full disclosure plan for the records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, according to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 23.

โ€œI have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest, and the release of these records is long overdue,โ€ Trump wrote in the order.

Since Kennedy was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, some have speculated about what the government knows, and the slow release of documents has only heightened suspicions, according to those calling for declassification.

According to the National Archives, more than 5 million documents, photographs, and other artifacts related to the assassination are in the governmentโ€™s possession.

Approximately 99 percent of the records are available for the public to review, although around 5,000 documents remain sealed or redacted.

Some have additionally questioned the official narratives regarding the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.. The order also calls for Kingโ€™s records to be releasedโ€”with the plans due by early March.

โ€œTheir families and the American people deserve transparency and truth,โ€ Trumpโ€™s order states. โ€œIt is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.โ€

While signing the executive order, Trump said, โ€œPeople are waiting for this for years, for decades, and everything will be revealed.โ€

He instructed his staff to hand the pen he used to sign the order to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.โ€”the nephew of the deceased president and the son of the slain former senator.

RFK Jr. has long criticized the government for concealing documents and has suggested the Central Intelligence Agency may have played a role in his uncleโ€™s death.

He quoted the 35th president in a Jan. 24. post on social media platform X.

He said JFK warned that โ€˜The very word โ€˜secrecyโ€™ is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secrecy โ€ฆ We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.โ€™โ€

He suggested the lack of transparency has eroded the publicโ€™s trust in government.

Byย Travis Gillmore

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