JFK assassination: FBI says it has discovered 2,000+ new records

Sixty-two years aft erstwhile U.S. president John F. Kennedy was gunned down successful Dallas, Texas, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said successful a connection that it has discovered astir 2,400 caller records related to his assassination.

As archetypal reported by Axios, the records were seemingly never submitted to the board liable for divulging and reviewing applicable documents.

On January 23, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an enforcement bid directing the release of further documents pertaining to JFK’s assassination, successful summation to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy.

In effect to the enforcement order, said the FBI, they performed a caller hunt of the JFK records, resulting successful their caller find.

“The hunt resulted successful astir 2,400 recently inventoried and digitized records that were antecedently unrecognized arsenic related to the JFK assassination lawsuit file,” the bureau said successful a statement.

As of this writing, determination are nary specifics astir the caller records; it’s unclear if the find volition shed airy oregon supply further grounds oregon theories astir what happened to JFK. The FBI plans to crook implicit the documents to the National Archives and Records Administration successful an “ongoing declassification process.”

Speaking to reporters connected Jan. 23, Trump said, “everything volition beryllium revealed.”

Trump had promised during his re-election run to marque nationalist the past batches of still-classified documents surrounding president Kennedy’s assassination, which has transfixed radical for decades. He made a akin pledge during his archetypal term, but yet obeyed appeals from the CIA and FBI to support immoderate documents withheld.

Only a fewer 1000 of the millions of governmental records related to the assassination of president Kennedy person yet to beryllium afloat declassified. And portion galore who person studied what’s been released truthful acold accidental the nationalist shouldn’t expect immoderate earth-shattering revelations, determination is inactive an aggravated involvement successful details related to the assassination and the events surrounding it.

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Kennedy was fatally changeable successful downtown Dallas connected Nov. 22, 1963, arsenic his motorcade passed successful beforehand of the Texas School Book Depository building, wherever 24-year-old assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had positioned himself from a sniper’s perch connected the sixth floor. Two days aft Kennedy was killed, nightclub proprietor Jack Ruby fatally changeable Oswald during a jailhouse transfer.

The documents released implicit the past respective years connection details connected the mode quality services operated astatine the time, and see CIA cables and memos discussing visits by Oswald to the Soviet and Cuban embassies during a travel to Mexico City conscionable weeks earlier the assassination. The erstwhile Marine had antecedently defected to the Soviet Union earlier returning location to Texas.

There are inactive immoderate documents successful the postulation though that researchers don’t judge Trump volition beryllium capable to release. Around 500 documents, including taxation returns, weren’t taxable to the 2017 disclosure requirement. And, researchers note, documents person besides been destroyed implicit the decades.

— With files from The Associated Press