Thursday evening, the National Archives and Records Administration is slated to release a cache of previously classified documents linked to the killing of President John F. Kennedy, including critical data belonging to assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
The document dump is anticipated to be the largest since former President Donald Trump authorized the release of thousands of papers in 2017, according to the CIA and National Archives.
However, the Trump administration withheld certain records due to national security concerns.
President Biden issued an order in October 2021 for all federal agencies, including the Archives, to release all government records to the public by December 15, 2022, “unless when the strongest conceivable grounds suggest otherwise.”
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jackie Kennedy were slain in Dallas.
The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, signed by former President George H.W. Bush in 1992, stipulated that records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, must be made available within 25 years.
The authorities told Politico that the fresh batch of evidence has no bombshells — nothing that discredits Oswald as the shooter — but will be of interest to historians and experts examining the assassination’s 59-year-old facts.
Politico said that among of the most intriguing documents to be revealed concern the “personality” files the intelligence community amassed on Oswald prior to the assassination, as well as what it learned about him afterward.
The CIA stated that the Oswald file was compiled in 1960, following the assassin’s failed attempt to defect to the Soviet Union in 1959.
Politico observed that the existence of the papers raises the prospect that the CIA was aware of Oswald and the threat he posed to Kennedy well before November 22, 1963, in Dallas.
The majority of the nearly five million pages of information pertaining to the Kennedy assassination held by the National Archives have been released to the public.
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