Trump plans to declassify materials related to the Kennedy assassination

Trump plans to declassify materials related to the Kennedy assassination

President Donald trump said he will give permission for the publication of thousands of secret documents about the murder of the 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy after several years of delays.

In his Twitter the head of state wrote: «provided more information, I, as President, will open the access to documents of the JFK FILES that were blocked and classified for a long time.»

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

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 21, 2017

Thus the whole world will be able to see more than 3 thousands of classified material in the case of the Kennedy assassination that have never been made public, and more than 30 thousand, which was edited and released.

In 1992, Congress decided that all the instruments of murder will be published for 25 years. The deadline this year is October 26. But the law has a clause stating that the President may prohibit the publication if it would harm intelligence activities, law enforcement, military action or international relations. Apparently, trump is no fear that the move could harm the security of the country.

JFK experts believe that the new files will shed light on the journey of sniper Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico city several weeks prior to the date of the tragedy of 22 November 1963. According to experts, in Mexico, he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies.

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Kennedy’s successor Lyndon Johnson, who prior to this position he served as Vice-President, created the Warren Commission – a special body that was investigating the murder. The Commission determined that in the course of a trip Oswald obtained a visa to Cuba and the Soviet Union. Thanks to the declassification of more than 3 thousand documents, they will be able to see the entire report on the trip of Oswald to Mexico city from the staff of the house Committee that investigated the murder.

The case of the Kennedy assassination has long acquired a variety of rumors and conspiracy theories associated with the conspiracy of us or Soviet secret police. Who knows, maybe the new files to confirm or on the contrary refuted these conjectures.

Trump plans to declassify materials related to the Kennedy assassinationThe first page of the newspaper Detroit News for 22 November 1963: flickr.com

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