Trump to Release 80,000 JFK Assassination Files Tomorrow

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump announced Monday that he plans to release 80,000 pages of unredacted files related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on Tuesday. During a board meeting at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Trump said, “We’re going to be releasing the JFK files, and that would be tomorrow.”

Trump emphasized that the files would not include redactions, stating, “You got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, just don’t. But we’re going to be releasing the JFK files.” He further remarked, “People have been waiting for decades for this.”

JFK, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, while traveling in a motorcade. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder, but various conspiracy theories surrounding Oswald’s subsequent death two days later continue to provoke public interest.

In 1992, Congress mandated that all documents related to the assassination must be made publicly available within 25 years, setting a deadline of October 26, 2017. During his presidency, which began in January 2017, Trump had approved some proposed redactions from executive departments but insisted on reviewing any remaining redactions.

After Trump’s presidency, current President Joe Biden issued several certifications concerning these records in 2021, 2022, and 2023, extending the time for executive agencies to review the documents and, in some instances, allow the withholding of information from disclosure.

Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, confirmed on June 30, 2023, that “99 percent of records associated with JFK’s assassination were available for public consumption through the National Archives and Records Administration.”

On January 23, Trump signed an executive order to declassify any remaining files from the assassinations of President JFK, his brother Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK).