Donald Trump Releases 80,000 Pages of JFK Assassination Files

U.S. President Donald Trump announced that on Tuesday morning (18/03/2025), approximately 80,000 pages of documents related to the late president John F. Kennedy will be released. In late January, Trump signed an order for the declassification of U.S. government files concerning the assassinations of President John Kennedy in 1963, his brother Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. the same year. Over 50 years after the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, ‘their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all files associated with these murders without delay,’ according to the order. Back in November, after his election, Trump reiterated his campaign promise to publish the last highly classified folders held in the National Archives regarding JFK’s assassination. The official committee investigating this assassination concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former naval commando who had lived in the Soviet Union, acted alone. However, JFK’s assassination continues to spark countless speculations. In December 2022, the National Archives released over 13,000 documents. Nevertheless, the Biden administration had blocked the publication of thousands of others, citing national security reasons.