Jfk Files

JFK-related records reveal past CIA secrets but also some personal data

History buffs dove into thousands of pages of government records released online this week, hoping for new nuggets about President John F Kennedy's assassination. They instead found revelations about US espionage in the massive document dump that also exposed some previously redacted personal information. The US National Archives and Records Administration posted more than 63,000 pages of records on its website, following an executive order from President Donald Trump. Many of the documents had been released previously but with redactions that hid the names of CIA sources or details about its spying and covert operations in the 1960s. Kennedy was killed on Nov 23, 1963, during a visit to Dallas. As his motorcade finished its parade route downtown, shots rang out from the Texas School Book Depository building. Police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, who had positioned himself from a sniper's perch on the sixth floor. Two days later, night club owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during a .

JFK files declassified to restore public trust on US intel: WH press secy

Many documents related to the assassination had already been disclosed, including a set of 13,000 documents released during Joe Biden's presidency

Covert CIA bases in India? JFK files reveal hidden sites in Delhi, Kolkata

According to the declassified JFK documents, the CIA's New York division ran secret bases in several locations, including New Delhi and Kolkata, Pakistan's Rawalpindi, Sri Lanka's Colombo among other

Donald Trump releases classified JFK files: Why now and how to access them?

According to the National Archives and Records Administration, approximately 80,000 pages of records related to former President John F Kennedy's assassination have been made public

Trump releases previously classified files related to JFK assassination

Previously classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office. The documents were posted on the website of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The vast majority of the National Archives' collection of over 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination have previously been released. Trump told reporters Monday that has administration will be releasing 80,000 files, though it's not clear how many of those are among the millions of pages of records that have already been made public. We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading, Trump said while visiting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Researchers have estimated that 3,000 records or so hadn't been released, either in whole or in part. And last month, the FBI said

JFK assassination: Surviving witnesses recall incident after 60 years

Just minutes after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot as his motorcade rolled through downtown Dallas, Associated Press reporter Peggy Simpson rushed to the scene and immediately attached herself to the police officers who had converged on the building from which a sniper's bullets had been fired. I was sort of under their armpit, Simpson said, noting that every time she was able to get any information from them, she would rush to a pay phone to call her editors, and then go back to the cops. Simpson, now 84, is among the last surviving witnesses who are sharing their stories as the nation marks the 60th anniversary of the November 22, 1963, assassination on Wednesday. A tangible link to the past is going to be lost when the last voices from that time period are gone, said Stephen Fagin, curator at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which tells the story of the assassination from the Texas School Book Depository, where Lee Harvey Oswald's sniper's perch was found. So m

JFK files: British newspaper got mystery call before killing

The memo says Britain's MI5 intelligence service calculated that the call came 25 minutes before Kennedy was shot

JFK files: British newspaper got anonymous call 25 mins before his death

The mystery call was made to a senior reporter at the Cambridge News