White House orders the release of documents related to murder of US President John F Kennedy

• More than 97% of the records in the collection are now accessible to the public.
• President Joe Biden  approved the most recent disclosure.
• 515 documents would continue to be completely hidden.

The White House has mandated the first-ever full disclosure of thousands of papers pertaining to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.

More than 97% of the records in the collection are now accessible to the public, according to the White House, with the online publication of some 13,173 files.

The papers aren’t anticipated to reveal anything incredibly shocking, but historians want to discover more about the supposed assassin.

On November 22, 1963, while visiting Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot.

By October 2017, the government was compelled by a 1992 statute to make all assassination-related records available.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Thursday approving the most recent disclosure.

However, he stated that some documents would be kept secret until June 2023 in order to guard against any “identifiable harm.”

According to the US National Archives, 2,545 papers would be partially concealed, while 515 would continue to be completely hidden.

The Warren Commission, a 1964 US investigation, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a US citizen who had previously resided in the Soviet Union, assassinated Kennedy alone. Two days after his arrest, he was found dead in the Dallas police department’s basement.

Years of conspiracy rumours followed JFK’s death, but the CIA announced on Thursday that it had “never engaged” Oswald and had not withheld information about him from US investigators.

Academics and theorists who have studied JFK for a long time had hoped the most recent disclosure would provide further details concerning Oswald’s activities in Mexico City, where he met a Soviet KGB operative in October 1963.

The CIA stated in its most recent statement that all material it possessed regarding his travel to Mexico City had already been made public, adding that “there is no new information on this topic in the 2022 release.”

The CIA was allegedly hiding material about Oswald’s time in Mexico, according to researchers with the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a non-profit that sued the government to release the data.

The foundation claimed that some CIA documents were never turned in to the archives and were not included in the recent batch of disclosures.

One recently made public document reveals that, without the knowledge of other Mexican government officials, the president of Mexico assisted the US in wiretapping the Soviet embassy there.

The White House claimed that by making the materials public, the general public would have a better grasp of the assassination probe.

“Agencies have conducted a comprehensive effort to evaluate the full set of over 16,000 records that had previously been given in redacted form and determined that more than 70% of those records may now be shared in full,” President Biden stated in his order.

Despite the 1992 statute requiring the release of all information by 2017, the Trump administration withheld thousands of pages during his presidency while releasing thousands more on the grounds of national security.

Around 1,500 documents were made available by Mr. Biden in October 2021, but he claimed to be keeping the rest sealed.

The release of the additional files, according to Philip Shenon, a former reporter for the New York Times and author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination, may reveal whether or not the government was aware of Oswald’s plans.

He stated “I feel there may be evidence in these documents to demonstrate that other individuals knew this man Lee Harvey Oswald was a risk before the Kennedy assassination and that he may have talked openly about his desire to kill the president.

And the issue has remained, “Did the government’s agencies, the CIA and FBI, have any inkling that this man posed a threat to President Kennedy, and if they had acted on that information, might they have saved the president?”

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