US President Donald Trump on Tuesday released thousands of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of former American President John F Kennedy (JFK).
Former President Kennedy’s death has always fuelled many conspiracy theories over the last six decades.
President Trump had promised his voters that he would declassify all the remaining JFK files in his next tenure. Following that, the US National Archives released the unredacted final batch of files related to President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
The US National Archives released 2,182 PDF documents, comprising about 63,400 pages. Trump issued an executive order on January 23 this year aimed at declassification of files related to deaths of JFK, as well as his younger brother, Senator Robert F Kennedy (RFK) and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK)
John F Kennedy was the US president from January 1961 until November 22, 1963, when he was killed at the age of 46.
Kennedy was assassinated in a public motorcade through Dallas, Texas. Later investigations revealed that former marine turned communist activist, Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, was alone responsible for the killing.
However, the Kennedy assassination has always fuelled speculation and conspiracies that Oswald allegedly acted with other powers.
The conspiracies increased when Oswald was murdered during police custody as he did not face a trial.
Since then, former president Kennedy’s assassination has always been the centre of national conspiracies, even holding significance in American pop culture.
Successive US administrations did not release many classified files on the death of JFK, which further exacerbated the conspiracy theorists.
The release of the documents follows an October 26, 1992 act of Congress which required that the unredacted assassination records held in the National Archives be released in full 25 years later.
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