Agencies WASHINGTON

President Donald Trump announced his administration will release all classified government files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, comprising approximately 80,000 pages of unredacted records. This marks the first time these documents will be fully available to the public.

"People have been waiting for decades for this," Trump said  during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center. "We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading. I don't believe we're going to redact anything." The release follows Trump's executive order aimed at declassifying documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The assassination has fueled numerous conspiracy theories, particularly after Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, was killed days later. While millions of Kennedy assassination records have been previously released, some remained classified. Trump directed his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to oversee the release.

A 1992 law mandated the full release of these records by October 26, 2017, unless the President determined their release would harm national security. Trump, in office at the time, released nearly 2,900 records but kept others secret due to CIA and FBI concerns.

Former President Joe Biden extended the review period in 2021, 2022, and 2023. The 2017 releases included details on FBI and CIA investigations into Oswald and covert Cold War operations. The FBI recently discovered 2,400 additional records.