U.S. President Trump (Donald Trump) announced on Monday (March 3) that it will release 17 pages of confidential documents on the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday (18th), emphasizing that these documents will not be deleted and saying that "these documents are very interesting."
"It's going to be interesting, people have been waiting for decades for this," Trump told reporters during a visit to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. When asked if a summary of the documents would be provided, Trump responded explicitly: "No summary will be provided, and the public will make their own judgment."
The decision was one of Trump's campaign promises. On January 1 of this year, he signed an executive order directing the federal government to declassify all remaining files related to the assassinations of Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and former Senator Robert Kennedy.
Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 1963, 11, in one of the most controversial cases in American history. Although the official investigation results pointed out that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman, various conspiracy theories have emerged over the years, and some even believed that the incident was related to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other government agencies.
The U.S. Congress passed the Kennedy Records Act in 1992, requiring that all documents related to the case must be made public within 25 years (that is, October 2017, 10). However, the government at that time still chose to partially seal some confidential documents, which aroused public dissatisfaction. The Trump administration's decision to fully declassify the documents may bring new interpretations to this historical case.
It is worth mentioning that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is the son of assassinated Senator Robert Kennedy and the nephew of President Kennedy.
The Trump administration said earlier this month that the FBI recently discovered thousands of new documents related to the Kennedy assassination case. Whether these documents will be included in the 8-page archive to be declassified remains to be confirmed.
