Around 80,000 pages of JFK files will be released on Tuesday, Trump says
The assassination of president John F. Kennedy still fuels conspiracy theories more than 60 years after his death
US President Donald Trump, who has ordered the release of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, said on Monday that his administration will make public around 80,000 pages of files related to the former US president on Tuesday.
Trump announced the documents drop while visiting the Kennedy Centre, a performing arts venue in Washington named after the late president.
“While we’re here I thought it’d be appropriate – we are, tomorrow, announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files,” Trump told reporters.
On January 23, Trump signed an executive order calling for the declassification of the JFK assassination documents, a case that still fuels conspiracy theories more than 60 years after his death.
“People have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve instructed my people that are responsible … put together by Tulsi Gabbard,” Trump said, referencing his Director of National Intelligence.
The January order also covered documents related to the 1960s assassinations of JFK’s younger brother Robert F. Kennedy – father of Trump’s health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jnr – and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr.
