The National Archives published thousands of pages of declassified files linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump signed a decree on January 23 which directed the publication of the remaining files, saying that it was in “the public interest” to do so.
Trump announced to journalists on Monday that the administration would begin to publish the files on Tuesday, which prompted a race inside the Ministry of Justice to release lawyers to help the declassification process.
President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the Governor of Texas John Connally, and others smile at the crowd which will bordered their procession route in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963.
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The congress voted in 1992 to demand that the government disclose and declassify all the files related to the assassination by 2017, but this deadline has been repeatedly postponed by Trump and President Joe Biden due to national security problems.
Tuesday’s release represents an exceptional small branch of the more than six million pages of files collected by the national archives – the majority of which have already been declassified and available online or in person for the agency.
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