President Donald Trump’s administration released roughly 80,000 pages of files pertaining to former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Tuesday, fulfilling a major campaign promise Trump made throughout the 2024 presidential election.
Fox News reported that as of Tuesday night, the National Archive’s website featured more than 1,123 unredacted documents with approximately 80,000 pages of information on Kennedy’s assassination.
During a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, Trump said, “While we’re here, I thought it would be appropriate, we are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files.”
The 47th president explained that he had given instructions to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and other administration officials to release the Kennedy files on Tuesday. Trump noted that people have been “waiting for decades” for the release of the secret assassination files.
“You got a lot of reading,” Trump said. “I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, ‘Just don’t redact; you can’t redact.’”
“I said during the campaign I’d do it, and I’m a man of my word, so tomorrow you have the JFK files,” the president added.
In a Tuesday press release, Gabbard referenced the president’s promise to provide “maximum transparency” and to “rebuild the trust of the American people in the Intelligence Community (IC) and federal agencies.” She explained that part of Trump’s promise to provide transparency to the American people was to release classified records related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In Tuesday’s press release, Gabbard noted that the Kennedy files will be available to access either on the National Archive’s website or in person at the National Archives. Gabbard confirmed that the Trump administration’s file release includes roughly 80,000 pages of “previously classified records that will be published with no redactions.”
Gabbard also announced that additional documents and records that have been “withheld under court seal or for grand jury secrecy” will have to be unsealed prior to their release. The director of national intelligence added that the files will be “immediately released” following court approval.
Sharing the press release in a post on X, formerly Twitter, Gabbard wrote, “President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency. Today, per his direction, previously redacted JFK Assassination Files are being released to the public with no redactions. Promises made, promises kept.”
