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The National Archives and Records Administration completed its review of classified documents from the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and released 99% of the material, the White House announced.
In a memo released Friday, President Biden revealed that the archivist had completed the review in May and that the remaining documents authorized to be released had been released to the public.
The announcement comes on the day of a previously set deadline to release the documents.
The Warren Commission’s report on Kennedy’s assassination was initially sealed until 2039 until Congress passed the JFK Records Act of 1992, directing the National Archives and Records Administration to create a collection of documents on the former president’s assassination.
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The National Archives and Records Administration has completed its review of classified documents relating to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and has made 99% of the material available for public consumption. (Getty)
The law required all murder files to be released by 2017, but former President Donald Trump and Biden have delayed disclosures several times, citing advice from the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies.
Trump released tens of thousands of documents during his administration, though most contained redactions.
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The Biden administration declassified more than 14,000 documents related to the Kennedy assassination in December when the president ordered a six-month review of the remaining records. Since then, more than 2,600 documents have been released, including 1,103 made public on Tuesday.
“NARA worked with agencies to collectively review remaining redactions in 3,648 documents in accordance with the president’s directive,” the National Archives wrote at the time. releasing the documents. “Between April and June 2023, NARA posted 2,672 documents containing newly released information.”
Nearly 13,000 documents about the attack were due to be made public by the administration in December, and another 1,500 documents were released 12 months earlier.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday that the president’s memo on the latest batch of documents was released as part of the administration’s “ongoing commitment to government transparency.”
President Biden revealed that the archivist completed the review of the documents in May and the remaining documents allowed for release have been released to the public. (Getty)
“Under President Biden’s leadership, agencies have fully released more than 16,000 records since 2021,” she said in a news conference. “This action reflects his instruction that all information pertaining to the assassination of President Kennedy must be released unless the strongest possible grounds suggest otherwise.”
She continued: “As a result, more than 99% of the archives in the collection are now publicly available in the National Archives. In accordance with the President’s instructions, the National Archives will digitize the entire collection to make it more accessible to the public. audience. .”
Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963, sparked public theories about the attack and the events leading up to it, including allegations that the federal government intended to keep its findings secret.
Biden said in his memo that in May the archivist recommended continuing to use agencies’ transparency plans to disclose information covered by the JFK Records Act.
“The transparency plans will ensure that the public has access to the maximum amount of information while continuing to protect against identifiable harm to military defenses, intelligence operations, law enforcement and foreign relations conduct according to the standards of the law.” declared the chairman.
The Warren Commission’s report on the Kennedy assassination was initially sealed until 2039 before Congress passed the JFK Records Act of 1992. (Getty)
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Kennedy was killed by United States Marine Corps veteran Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
Oswald was shot and killed two days after the murder on November 24, 1963, by a nightclub operator while being escorted from the Dallas Police Department to an armored car, where he was then transported from the city jail to the county jail. .
