At seven o’clock on Tuesday, Washington time, the Internet has been filled with conspiracy theories about the death of former president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The declassification of 1,123 documents by the national archives has converted X, which is practically a Trumpist bubble today, in a constant posts torrent about what users had found in their rapid search. “Another disappointing publication,” said one of the thousands of profiles.
Presidential historians had already said that they did not expect great surprises since Donald Trump announced that he would publish full documents and without any censorship. The Republican has decided to bring to light the files he had already revealed in his previous mandate with tachones and hidden parts. Some of those paragraphs or words that had remained under registration have remained illegible due to calligraphy or poor quality of documents.
The vast majority of the collection of national archives, which contains more than six million pages with records, images, audio and video recordings, and other elements related to the murder, had already been previously published. The last major publication of documents was in 2022, when the national archives released almost 13,000 new files. That is why presidential historians do not expect to find great surprises in this Tuesday’s publication, although light could be shed on some details of the murder of November 22, 1963.
Although the initial answer to the big question of who killed Kennedy, or if there were other people involved in the murder – even the CIA itself -, it seems that it will continue to be the same: Lee Harvey Oswald, the lonely shooter who shot at Kennedy’s caravan from the sixth floor of the deposit of school books in Dallas (Texas).
Trump became a campaign promise the declassification of the remaining government documents about Kennedy’s murder and this Monday announced that he was going to fulfill it. “I said during the campaign that I would do, and I am a man of word,” Trump said Monday when, from the Kennedy Center in Washington, he announced the publication of the documents for this Tuesday.
In January, Trump signed an executive order to order the publication of federal government documents related to Kennedy’s murders, former General -General Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. The Order instructed the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General to present a plan within 15 days, a plan for the “complete and total publication of the archives related to the murder of President John F. Kennedy. ” Despite this promise to publish the files without any censorship seems not to have been fulfilled. An initial review of the files made by the New York Times has detected that part of the information is still capable.
Finding relevant information will be a complicated and long task. Not only because of the volume, but because the documents delivered have been published in a disorderly way, without any categorization. Most PDF files have less than 10 pages. In addition, it has not been specified how many of the discharged documents are still pending digitalization. According to the National Archives website, as of this Tuesday, “as the records are digitized, they will be published on the page.”
Oswald, who killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was an imbalanced exarine that identified himself as a Marxist. Two days after killing the Democrat, the owner of a Dallas nightclub, Jack Ruby, shot and killed Oswald just before he was transferred to a new prison. The Warren Commission, which was created to clarify the crime, concluded at the time that Oswald acted alone. As well as the man who killed him later.
By law, all documents related to the magnicide had to be made public before October 26, 2017. However, exceptions were contemplated in the event that the president demonstrated that keeping them secret was necessary to avoid serious damage to exceed the public interest in their dissemination. When it was time to make them public, Trump was president and decreed that some of the files continued classified. Now it seems that he does not remember it and does not stop being a transparency defender. Trump has now been able to declassify the documents because former president Joe Biden also renewed the classification of the records.
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