Trump Will Allow Release of Blocked JFK Assassination Files

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(Newswire.net — October 26, 2017) –“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” Trump Tweeted.

The US President decided to release the blocked JFK assassination files despite the recommendation of the National Security Council not to do so.

Considering the way that Trump announced his intention to allow the release of the classified JFK assassination files – only on his personal Twitter account, there is a chance that this will not happen.

The documents should be disclosed on October 26 this year, and the US President is the only person authorized to prevent it.

The deadline for the National Archives to release documents, primarily from the CIA and the FBI, was established by the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which was signed by former President George H. W. Bush in an attempt to minimize the conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s death.

It is a collection of 35,000 documents that are still not fully available to the public, including 3,603 documents that the public has never seen.

Last month, Professor Larry Sabato, political scientist and author of the book “The Kennedy Half-Century” said to the Associated Press news agency, that the American public deserves to know the facts and to finally know what the government has hidden from them all these years.

John F. Kennedy, born on May 29, 1917, was the 35th President of the United States. He held office from January 1961 until his assassination on November 22, 1963. in Dallas, Texas.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime, but he was never prosecuted due to his murder by Jack Ruby two days later.

The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was a lone assassin, but various groups believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy