More than 63,000 pages of record -related records1963. MurderpresidentJohn F. Kennedywere released on Tuesday nextPresident Donald Trump’s ordermanyWithout editorial officesThis has embarrassed historians over the years and has helped the theory of fuel conspiracy.
The administration of the National Archives and Records of the United States is posted on its site with approximately 2200 files containing documents. The vast majority of collections of national archives from more than 6 million pages of records, photos, cinemas, sound recordings and murder related were previously released.
Larry J. Sabat, director of the Virginia University Center and the author of “Kennedy for half a century”, said it would take time to completely consider the records.
“We have a lot of work to do for a long time, and people just have to take it,” he said.
Trump announced the release on Monday While visiting John F. Kennedy’s performing arts center in Washington, saying his administration would release about 80,000 pages.
“We have a large amount of paper.
By Tuesday, researchers estimated that 3000 to 3500 files wereStill not issuedeither completely or partially. And just last monthsaid the FBIHe discovered about 2,400 new murder records.
Jefferson Morley, Vice President of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, Murder Files, said a statement posted on the social platform X What a release is a “encouraging start”. He said that most of the “bewildered translation of trivial information was expelled” from the documents.
The National Archives said on its website that in accordance with the presidential directive, the release would cover “all recordings that were previously detained for classification.” But Morley said what came out on Tuesday does not include two -thirds of the promised files, any of the recent FBI files or 500 internal income records.
“However, this is the most positive news about the release of JFK files since the 1990s,” Morley said.
The interest in the details related to Kennedy’s murder has been intensive for decades, and the countless conspiracy theories were generated on the occasion of many shooters and the participation of the Soviet Union and the Mafia.
He was killed on November 22, 1963 atVisit DallasWhen his tuple completed his ceremonial route downtown and shots sounded withTexas Storage School BookThe building. Police arrested 24 years of ageLee Harvey OswaldLocated from the sniper perch on the sixth floor. Two days later, the nightclub owner Jack Ruby deadly shot Oswald during a transfer prison.
A year after the attempted commission, Warren’s commission, which President Lyndon B. Johnson created for the investigation, concluded that Oswald acted alone and that there was no conspiracy. But this has not stopped alternative theories for decades.
Oswald was a former marine infantry that moved to the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.
The files in the new issue included a memo from the CIA Peacersburg station since November 1991, which states that earlier the CIA official had made friends with a US professor who told an official about a friend who worked at the KGB. The note states that the KGB official considered “five thick volumes” Files on OSWALD and “was sure Oswald was not an agent controlled by the KGB.”
The note adds that, as Oswald was described in the files, the KGB official doubted: “that everyone can control Oswald, but noted that the KGB was closely and constantly watching him while he was in the USSR.” He also noted that the file reflected that Oswald was a bad shot when he tried to dismiss the goal in the Soviet Union.
In the early 1990s, the Federal Government stated that all the documents related to the murder would be placed in one collection in the National Administration of Archives and Records. The collection had to beOpen before 2017forbidding any release appointed by the president.
Trump, who took office for his first term in 2017, said he would allow all other records, but as a result, he returned from what he calledPotential Damage to National Security. And while the filescontinued to releaseDuring the Presidential Administration Joe Biden, some remained invisible.
Sabat said that his team has a “long, long list” of sensitive documents that seeking that there used to be large editions.
“There must be something really sensitive to editing a paragraph or page or several pages in a similar document,” he said. “Some of them are a cube, some of them that the CIA did or did not attach to Lee Harvey Oswald.”
Some of thePreviously releasedThe documents offered details about how special services operated at the time, including the CIA cables and notes discussing Oswald’s visits to the Embassy of Soviet and Cuban embassies during a trip to Mexico Classia.
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