Top secret files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have finally been released.
The bombshell documents were published on the website of the National Archives on Tuesday.
It came roughly 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced that a trove of 80,000 pages of new material would be revealed.
The trove of documents include hand-written notes as well as typewritten reports.
In many cases, the scanned documents are old, faded and blurry making parts of them illegible. Others have scratched out written information.
Despite the promise there won’t be redactions, some are heavily redacted with thick black bars across the pages.
Historians reacting to the document dump signaled they did not expect any major revelations that change the the circumstances of the assassination, but the release could provide additional details.
Some of the documents hold information on Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities prior to the assassination including his contacts with Cuban and Soviet intelligence.
One document noted that Oswald was considered a ‘poor shot.’
The release also contained a letter from a Russian in which he claimed he warned U.S. officials in August 1963 that Oswald was preparing to kill the president.
President John F Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy moments before the president was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963 as his car passed through Dealey Plaza
The Dallas Police Department mug shots of Lee Harvey Oswald following his arrest over the JFK assassination. Oswald claimed he was a ‘patsy’.
The massive document release had JFK sleuths and conspiracy theorists scouring the National Archives website Tuesday night for any new juicy morsels of information.
Leading up to its release, the White House said that Americans would be ‘shocked’ by revelations in the documents and Trump said it would be ‘interesting.’
‘We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files…people have been waiting for decades for this,’ Trump said on Monday. ‘We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading.’
The new JFK assassination files could include the home video shot by bystander Oliver Nix, according to expert Jefferson Morley.
President Donald Trump said while at the Kennedy Center on Monday that 80,000 pages of JFK files would be released the on Tuesday, March 18 in keeping with another campaign promise
He added: ‘I don’t believe we are going to redact anything. I said just don’t redact. You can’t redact. But we’re going to be releasing the JFK files.’
‘It’s a lot of stuff, and you’ll make your own determination,’ Trump said of the contents, adding that he saw them before their release.
Americans have long waited to get their eyes on the documents.
The release of files on the 1963 assassination of JFK are part of a bigger GOP promise to make public government secrets – like what is known about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, UFOs, origins of COVID-19 and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
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.
Trump was for releasing the JFK files during his first term in office but thousands remained under seal.
During his 2024 campaign he vowed to make them public as part of his overall effort to increase government transparency.
He signed an executive order in January to declassify the remaining files.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna was tapped earlier this year by the House Oversight Committee to head up its newly formed Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.
Boxes of documents and evidence related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy were presented at a news conference in Dallas, Texas on February 18, 2008
The panel is meant to focus on declassification of government secrets and federal transparency.
This includes releasing files related to the late disgraced financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK’s brother Robert F. Kennedy.
Luna’s group also seeks to expose what the government knows about UFOs, the origins of COVID-19 and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Last month, Luna made the bombshell revelation that she believes there were ‘two shooters’ in JFK’s assassination in 1963.
‘I believe that there were two shooters, and we should be finding more information as we are able to,’ she said.
