Thousands of JFK Assassination Documents Declassified in the U.S.

The White House has ordered the complete declassification of thousands of documents related to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. More than 13,000 files are now accessible to the public online, representing over 97% of the archival documents dedicated to this case.

No sensational revelations are expected; however, historians hope to learn more about the alleged assassin.

The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was shot and killed on November 22, 1963, during a visit to Dallas, Texas.

A 1992 law mandated the government to release all documents related to the assassination by October 2017. U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order allowing this declassification, while emphasizing that some files would remain classified until June 2023, as their release could cause harm.

The U.S. National Archives has stated that 515 documents will remain completely classified, while an additional 2,545 documents will be partially classified.

The American investigation conducted by the Warren Commission in 1964 concluded that Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, an American citizen who had previously been in the Soviet Union, and that he acted alone. Oswald was killed in the basement of the Dallas police station two days after his arrest. On Thursday, the CIA reiterated that it has never had any association with Oswald and that information about him has not been withheld from U.S. investigators.