Trump plans to release JFK assassination documents

US President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he planned to release the tens of thousands of never-before-seen documents left in the files related to Late US President John F. Kennedy’s assassination held by the National Archives and Records Administration, The Washington Post reported.

"Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened," Trump tweeted early Saturday.

Kennedy assassination experts have been speculating for weeks about whether Trump would disclose the documents. The 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act required that the millions of pages, many of them contained in CIA and FBI documents, be published in 25 years, by Oct. 26. Over the years, the National Archives has released most of the documents, either in full or partially redacted.

There are about 3,100 previously unreleased files that hold tens of thousands of pages of new material. The National Archives also has another 30,000 pages of information that have been disclosed before, but only partially and with redactions.

In May 2016, while on the presidential campaign trail, Trump gave an interview to Fox News strongly accusing the father of his GOP primary opponents, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), of consorting with Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald right before the shooting.

But some experts fear the history that may be lost forever in unreadable documents in the trove. One listed as "unintelligible" is a secret communication from the CIA to the Office of Naval Intelligence about Oswald in October 1963, weeks before the assassination. Oswald had been honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in 1959, but he was outraged and made violent threats after learning in October 1963 that the military had changed his discharge to a dishonorable one.

Source: MENA