Trump releases JFK assassination documents


A statue of President John F. Kennedy stands outside the State House, as President Donald Trump plans to release about 80,000 pages of material related to the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump released material related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday, seeking to honor his campaign promise to provide more transparency about the shock event in Texas.

An initial tranche of electronic copies of papers flooded into the National Archives website in the evening with a total of more than 80,000 expected to be published after Justice Department lawyers spent hours scouring them.

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