On Tuesday, March 18, the administration of US President Donald Trump released previously classified documents related to the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy. As is known, he was shot in Dallas in 1963. This was reported by Bloomberg and other media.
Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbart shared on social media X with a link to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) website with the records. She added that the files "are made available to the public without any edits."
"People have been waiting for this for decades", — Trump said the day before during a visit to the Kennedy Center. According to him, the documents were collected by a team led by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
According to reported the The Guardian reported that the declassified materials include documents marked "secret", including a transcript of an interview with a CIA officer about discrepancies in marriage records between Americans and Soviet citizens. It also contains references to conspiracy theories that Lee Harvey Oswald returned from the USSR with the intention of killing Kennedy.
According to a statement from Gabbard's office, the release consisted of approximately 80 pages of previously classified records, released without redaction. Other documents held under court seal or classified as grand jury or subject to the Internal Revenue Code are also to be declassified.
“NARA is working with the Department of Justice to expedite the printing of these records,” — the statement says.
According to NARA, the collection of assassination records already “consists of more than six million pages of records, photographs, films, sound recordings, and artifacts.”
Currently, the media is reporting that journalists are studying the documents that were published.
Recall, on Monday, during a visit to the Kennedy Center (a performing arts concert hall and theater) dedicated to the former president, Trump announced that he would release the documents.
"We have a huge amount of papers. You will have to read a lot," — he told reporters.
It is noted that Trump promised to release the documents during his first term as president. But he ultimately gave in to the intelligence community's request to keep most of the materials classified. During the last presidential campaign, Trump repeated his communication that he would release the document.
In particular, a relevant decree was signed in January 2025. It stated that any possible harm to defense, intelligence, law enforcement, or diplomatic operations is outweighed by public interests.
Last year, Trump said in a podcast that the request to delay the release of documents during his first term as president was from the Central Intelligence Agency, and it would probably prefer that he not declassify additional documents.
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