John F Kennedy Assassination Documents

US releases 10,000 pages on Robert F Kennedy's 1968 assassination

Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F Kennedy have been released. The Friday release continues the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says in a statement the RFK files' release will shine a long-overdue light on the truth. Gabbard says, Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government's investigation thanks to the leadership of President Trump. The US National Archives and Records Administration posted roughly 229 files containing the pages on its website.

'JFK' director to testify to Congress on newly released assassination files

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film JFK portrayed President John F Kennedy's assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, is set to testify to Congress on Tuesday about thousands of newly released government documents surrounding the killing. Scholars say the files that President Donald Trump ordered to be released showed nothing undercutting the conclusion that a lone gunman killed Kennedy. Many documents were previously released but contained newly removed redactions, including Social Security numbers, angering people whose personal information was disclosed. The first hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets comes five decades after the Warren Commission investigation concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old former Marine, acted alone in fatally shooting Kennedy as his motorcade finished a parade route in downtown Dallas on Nov 22, 1963. Republican Rep Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who chairs the task forc

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

What JFK files reveal: CIA warnings, mafia plots, and a second shooter

Newly released JFK files by the Trump administration reveal CIA warnings on Oswald, possible mafia links, and fresh second shooter evidence, raising questions about the 1963 assassination

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 says his administration set to release JFK files with no redactions

President Donald Trump says files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be released on Tuesday without any redactions, making good on a promise he made during his campaign. Trump told reporters Monday that his 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 at the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington. He also said he doesn't believe anything will be redacted from the files. I said, Just don't redact. You can't redact, he said. Many who have studied what's been released so far by the government say the public shouldn't anticipate any earth-shattering revelations from the newly released documents, but there is still intense interest in details related to the assassination and the events surrounding it. Here are some things to ...

FBI uncovers 2,400 secret records on John F Kennedy's assassination

This came after President Donald Trump's January 23rd executive order where he ordered the release of all assassination-related documents as part of his promise during the election campaign

Trump signs executive order to declassify JFK, RFK, MLK assassination files

Donald Trump's executive order directs the director of national intelligence and the attorney general, once confirmed, to devise a plan within 15 days to release the remaining JFK files

Trump’s order to declassify JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination files: What’s in the executive order?

US President Donald Trump has ordered the declassification of remaining files on the assassinations of John F Kennedy (1963), Robert F Kennedy (1968), and Martin Luther King Jr (1968).

Trump assassination bid: What is US Secret Service, why is it under scanner

Donald Trump assassination attempt: Donald Trump narrowly escaped a bid on his life at an election rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. He miraculously escaped with an injury to his right ear

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

Trump plans to release classified John F Kennedy's assassination documents

Trump's announcement comes before an Oct 26 deadline set in law by Congress mandating the public release of the still-secret documents