The National Archives released on Tuesday the final set of files related to the assassination case of John F. Kennedy, a case which still fuels conspiracy theory more than 60 years after his death.
This follows a January executive order by President Donald Trump directing the release of all remaining files related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
The Archives released a statement Tuesday evening on its website that said, “In accordance to President Donald Trump’s Directive… all records previously classified as part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Record Collection have been released.”
The National Archives released millions of pages of documents over the last decades related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963. However, thousands of documents were held back by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), citing national security concerns.
The Warren Commission, which investigated the shooting death of the charismatic 46-year-old president, Lee Harvey Oswald alone, determined that he was a former Marine Sharpshooter.
The formal conclusion of the case has not been able to stop the speculation about a sinister conspiracy behind Kennedy’s death in Dallas, Texas. And the slow release by the government of its files has only fueled various conspiracy theories.
Kennedy scholars said that the documents still kept by the archive were unlikely to reveal any shocking revelations or to put an end to the rampant conspiracy theory about the assassination of the 35th US President.
Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a strip club owner, while he was being transferred to a county prison on November 24, 1964 — two days following the Kennedy assassination.
The FBI has released a large number of documents, including dozens of reports that they have compiled after following up on leads that did not lead anywhere.
Many of the details contained in these documents were also known previously, for example, that the communist-obsessed CIA hatched several outrageous plots to kill Cuba’s Fidel Cuba.
Oswald left the United States for the Soviet Union in 1959 but returned in 1962.
The conspiracy industry has been fueled by hundreds of books and films, such as Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK”, which pointed the finger at Cold War rivals like the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the Mafia, and even Kennedy’s vice president Lyndon Johnson.
The documents were released following an act passed by Congress on October 26, 1992, that required the National Archives to release the full assassination files, including those with redactions.
The newly digitized document collection includes various Warren Commission records that investigated the assassination of JFK, audio recordings from Jim Garrison’s investigation, and additional sound links regarding wiretaps at the Cuban and Russian embassies.
