Donald Trump’s plan to release the files tied to the assassination of John F. Kennedy has already unearthed nearly 2,400 new documents that could shed light on the mystery.
In late January, Trump signed an executive order authorizing the release of the remaining classified records about the 1963 shooting in one of his first acts upon returning to the White House.
The White House was alerted on Friday that the FBI discovered about 14,000 pages of documents as the agency set about reviewing the files in response to the order.
‘This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously,’ Jefferson Morley, an expert on the Kennedy murder told Axios.
‘The FBI is finally saying, “Let’s respond to the president’s order,” instead of keeping the secrecy going.’
While experts claimed the discovery could let to a new era of transparency regarding the shooting – but Trump insiders worried the development was a stall tactic.
One anonymous Trump aide was furious, calling the development ‘total Deep State bulls**t.’
Another said: ‘When POTUS hears about this stonewalling, he’s gonna hit the roof.’
DailyMail.com has reached out to the White House for comment.
Donald Trump ‘s plan to release the files tied to the assassination of John F. Kennedy appear to have hit a snag as the FBI has discovered around 2,400 new records that have not been reviewed
In late January, Trump signed an executive order authorizing the release of the remaining classified records about the 1963 shooting in one of his first acts after returning to the White House
However, the continued frustration could see the Trump administration completely bypass the normal standard.
‘Don’t be surprised if all these records just suddenly wind up online. He wants to move on and call this a promise kept,’ said one Trump advisor.
The document bombshell was revealed to the Trump administration after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had filed its plan to disclose the records.
Surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald, a file on a Cuban hitman, and the president’s plan to obliterate the CIA are among bombshell revelations that could be contained within secret JFK assassination files.
Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, as his motorcade passed in front of the Texas School Book Depository building.
Gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, shot from a sixth-floor sniper’s perch, and was himself gunned down two days later.
The Warren Commission concluded Oswald acted alone, but conspiracy theories have run riot ever since.
A collection of over 5 million government records at the National Archives was required to be opened by 2017, unless there were any exemptions designated by the president.
Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, as his motorcade passed in front of the Texas School Book Depository building
The Dallas Police Department mug shots of Lee Harvey Oswald following his arrest over the JFK assassination. Oswald claimed he was a ‘patsy’.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2025.
But about 3,600 of those records still have redactions and haven’t yet been fully released.
As he ordered their declassification with the stroke of a pen in the Oval Office, Trump said: ‘All will be revealed.’
The executive order, obtained by DailyMail.com, said: ‘More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events.
‘Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.’
His intelligence chiefs will have 45 days to put together a plan to release the RFK and King archives.
Millions of pages of JFK documents have already been released leaving only a few thousand kept in the archives.
The most recent releases included CIA cables and memos recording visits by Oswald to the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City weeks before the assassination.
And experts doubt there are any major revelations lurking in the archives that would change the accepted version of events.
Conspiracies have swirled for decades claiming JFK’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was not a lone actor and was working with Soviets or Cubans – or even the U.S. CIA
Oswald shown after his arrest. He was later shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in a moment captured live on television
Trump promised during his reelection campaign that he would declassify remaining government records surrounding the assassination.
He made a similar promise in his first term but gave way to the CIA and FBI who argued that some documents should be kept from the public for fear they would reveal national security secrets.
Trump teased his plan during his Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday evening.
‘I’m going to release them immediately,’ he said.
‘We’re going to see the information. We are looking at it right now.’
Trump said he was persuaded by Mike Pompeo, his former CIA director, not to release them during his first term.
‘I was actually asked by Mike Pompeo, secretary of State, not to, and I felt he knew something that maybe, you know , when he asked you not to, you sort of say “why?” and he felt that it was not a good time to release them,’ Trump said.
The hidden records allowed conspiracy theorists the freedom to speculate on what might be hidden.
Was Oswald in the pay of the Cubans or Soviets? Was he a patsy? Why did nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoot him dead live on TV.
The new executive order, signed by Trump in the Oval Office, says: ‘I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue.’
