Trump Administration Releases More Than a Thousand JFK Assassination Files

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President Donald Trump’s administration released more than a thousand classified documents related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday.

“In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released,” announced the National Archives. “The National Archives has partnered with agencies across the federal government to comply with the President’s directive in support of Executive Order 14176.”

As of reporting, 1,123 documents have been released, spread across 113 pages on the National Archives website.

“The continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of JFK is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue,” wrote President Trump in an executive order directing the release of the JFK files earlier this year.

In a statement on Tuesday, the office of National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard announced, “This release consists of approximately 80,000 pages of previously-classified records that will be published with no redactions. Additional documents withheld under court seal or for grand jury secrecy, and records subject to section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, must be unsealed before release.”

The office continued, “NARA is working with the Department of Justice to expedite the unsealing of these records. Grand juries from many years ago have already seen them, so most of this information is already out, but regardless of this, this information will be immediately released upon the direction of the Court.”