Donald Trump has promised to release all outstanding files on the assassination of John F. Kennedy should he be re-elected as President next year.
Nearly sixty years after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, many Americans still are not completely convinced it was the work of a lone crazed gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, who himself was gunned down in cold blood by underworld figure Jack Ruby just a few days after Oswald’s arrest.
Trump made the announcement in an interview with The Messenger, vowing that every single remaining file on the JFK assassination would be made public.
“I released a lot, as you know. And I will release everything else,” Trump said.
It would mean that some 4300 files that are still redacted would become available.
In 2018, Trump delayed the full release of the remaining JFK documents until October 2021, with Joe Biden later postponing that until December 2022, citing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden did release more documents, but thousands still remain hidden.
Trump refused to be drawn on what is in the files, noting “Well, I don’t want to comment on that. But I will tell you that I have released a lot. I will release the remaining portion very early in my term.”
During his first term, Trump reportedly told Judge Andrew Napolitano “If you saw what I saw [in the files] you wouldn’t want to release it either,” with an official statement noting “certain information should continue to be redacted because of identifiable national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns.”
As we highlighted earlier this month, Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior declared that he believes the CIA was “involved in the murder” of his uncle and has presided over a “60-year cover-up”.
RFK Jr. doubled down on the assertion, adding that “There were multiple people involved… they were all working together in cahoots with the CIA.”
‘What are they hiding?’: Group sues Biden and National Archives over JFK assassination records
The country’s largest online source of JFK assassination records announced last December that it is suing President Joe Biden and the National Archives to force the federal government to release all remaining documents related to the most mysterious murder of a U.S. president nearly 60 years ago.
The Mary Ferrell Foundation filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday one year after Biden issued a memo postponing the release of a final trove of 16,000 records assembled under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which Congress passed without opposition in response to Oliver Stone’s Oscar-nominated film “JFK.”
The JFK records act, signed by President Bill Clinton, required that the documents be made public by Oct. 26, 2017, but President Donald Trump delayed the release and kicked the can to Biden, who critics say continued the policy of federal obfuscation that has existed since Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963, in an open motorcade at Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
“It’s high time that the government got its act together and obeyed the spirit and the letter of the law,” said the vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination and the CIA.
“This is about our history and our right to know it,” said Morley, the author of the JFK Facts blog.
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