Trump Administration Releases More Than 1,000 JFK Assassination Files

‘People have been waiting for decades for this,’ the president said. ‘We have a tremendous amount of paper.’

Seen through the foreground convertible's windshield, President John F. Kennedy's hand reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy holds his forearm as the motorcade proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, on Nov. 22, 1963.

The Trump administration released thousands of pages of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on March 18, almost two months after ordering the attorney general and director of national intelligence to draft a plan for their disclosure.

More than 1,100 files, with multiple pages per file in many instances, were dropped on the National Archives website at approximately 7 p.m. EST. The Epoch Times is reviewing the files, which include scanned copies of previously classified documents.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday during a tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington that his administration would soon release roughly 80,000 pages of JFK assassination files.

“We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files. People have been waiting for decades for this,” he said. “We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading.”

It’s not clear how many of the files are among the millions of pages already publicly released, and Trump did not offer further details, other than suggesting they wouldn’t be redacted.

“I said, ‘Just don’t redact. You can’t redact,’” the president said.

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